The Lady Next Door. London: Hodder & Staunton, [1914]. First Edition. Pp 330, [6]. Blue cloth boards, lettered & decorated in gilt Neat ownership name to endpaper, a nice bright copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and ten plates of photographs.

The scarce first edition of this account of the expectations of Home Rule in Ireland by a pro-Home Rule British Liberal journalist, Harold Begbie.

It provides valuable interview material and personal impressions of several prominent Nationalists and Southern Unionists, giving a snapshot of the views of key activists on what they thought was the eve of Home Rule and their expectations of what a Home Rule Ireland would be like.