"Histoire de La Petite Marie et Son Chat" by Eliza Fenwick and translated from English into French by A.F.E. Lepee - W. Darton, London - ca 1835 first thus UK edition - original title: Little Mary and Her Cat - 12cmx10cm - condition: fair, in original wrappers with somew chipping and wear, inscription present, all plates present. Rare title That Eliza Fenwick was the author of Mary and her Cat is evident from the title-text of Infantine Stories ... By E. Fenwick, author of the Life of Carlo; Mary and her Cat, Presents for good Boys and Girls, etc., which was published in 1810, also by Benjamin Tabart. Fenwick moved in radical circles in 1790s London, and was a friend and colleague of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Elizabeth Inchbald and others. Her husband, John Fenwick, wrote several radical pamphlets and edited the radical newspaper Albion. Eliza Fenwick herself wrote the novel Secresy [sic] in 1795 which took children's education as its central theme and subjected Rousseau's ideas to close scrutiny. She announced her separation from her husband in 1800 and was forced to find employment. She kept a school, worked as a governess, coloured prints, translated, and wrote numerous books for Tabart, such as The Life of the Famous Dog Carlo (0162 in the Hockliffe Collection). Fenwick later became manager of the Godwins' juvenile library, but she emigrated to the West Indies soon after, following her daughter who had found work as an actor there, and ended her days in America. (Tomalin 1977: vii-xi, and Moon 1990: 34-41)