The Emigrants Ireland, Mary E. [Eliza] Literature

First edition, first printing. 1918 date printed to the title page. Illustrated with an early photograph plate of a mining camp, and with a detailed art frontispiece captioned "The Emigrant Ship". The story of a German family's fictionalized memoir of their immigration journey to, and afterward life in America, with Lutheran depictions, and spiced with spiritual thoughts and motivations. A RARE book with historical, cultural, and immigration details. Mary E. Ireland (1834-1927), raised as a Pennsylvania Quaker then a Presbyterian adult, was a significant American author (her friend, mentor and frequent publisher was Timothy Shay Arthur), essayist, German literature translator, poet (dubbed poetess of Cecil County), politically involved while at Washington, D.C. with her husband John Ireland of the Internal Revenue Dept., and an active member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union including women's suffrage movement. Under the multi-prize award winning pen name of Marie Norman, Ireland wrote her most notable book TIMOTHY AND HIS FRIENDS published by J.B. Lippincott. Light rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges, rear spine fold and corner tips, partial hairline crack to the rear inner hinge--still firmly holding, age-toning to the end-papers and pages, else very good in brown linen with color plate illustration, black titles, decorations and borders to the front cover, no dust jacket. Octavo; 94 pages.