Sister Nivedita (1867-1911)
An Indian Study of Love and Death, Author's Presentation Copy.

[No place: no printer], August 16, 1905.

First edition, 12mo, presentation copy from Sister Nivedita, in deluxe full morocco with message tooled in gilt inside front board, "Sophiae Wallerstein / Spiritu Sorori Sibi / in Maerore Iacenti / ut Auxilium Ferret / Soror Nivedita / Hoc Libellum / Ex Animo / Scripsit / Anno MCMV"; indicating that the book was written for the dedicatee; with full morocco doublures and flyleaves, patterned endleaves, endbands worked in silk, silk ribbon bookmarker, aeg; some sun fading, otherwise very nicely preserved; with original blue limp paper wrappers bound in; four blank endleaves with notes in French, English, and German, in different hands, ex libris Froissart with bookplate; 5 1/2 x 3 in.

Sister Nivedita was born and raised in Ireland with the name Margaret Elizabeth Noble. She first visited India in 1898, and in that year swore to uphold Brahmacharya, complete control of body and mind through asceticism, principle fundamental to a monk's life. She studied with Swami Vivekananda, who gave her the name Nivedita, which means "Dedicated to God." A champion of Indian Nationalism, she lived the rest of her life in India, where she founded a school for girls (her main reason for coming to the country), nursed plague patients in the 1899 epidemic, and participated in international fund and awareness raising efforts on behalf of the Indian independence movement. She died at Roy Villa in Darjeeling in 1911. At time of the publication of this catalog, the dedicatee, Sophie Wallerstein, has yet to be identified.

Rare, OCLC locates no copies.