DISCIPLINE: A NOVEL
Edinburgh: George Ramsay & Co., 1815. Second Edition. Octavos, v-ix, [2], 3-290 pp (Vol. 1); [2], 3-307 pp (Vol. 2); [2], 3-291 pp (Vol. 3). Good; bound in contemporary marbled paper with 1/2 calf, tooling and gilt decoration and titling to spine, somewhat rubbed, some slight scratches and surface marks to covers, wear to spine edges and corners; bindings tight; marbled text blocks age toned; pages clean; half-titles present in all volumes.
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Mary Brunton (née Balfour) (1778 – 1818) was a Scottish novelist who pursued educational opportunities not often open to women of the 18th century. In contrasting self-control with sensibility in her writing, Brunton was moving towards a redefinition of femininity. (via Wikipedia)
Discipline was Brunton's second novel to appear in print during her lifetime. Jane Austen had read her first novel Self-Control, and wrote in a letter to her sister Cassandra that it was an "excellently-meant, elegantly-written work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it."