Beatrice Hastings The Maids’ Comedy 1911 Antique Scarce Book For Sale

Very Scarce book. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good condition with a few pages with \"torn / cracked\" edges. A very good copy a book that rarely turns up.
The Maids’ Comedy: A Chivalric Romance in Thirteen Chapters. Published London, Stephen Swift, 1911. (A Feminist parody of Don Quixote from the female perspective.)
Beatrice Hastings was the pen name of Emily Alice Haigh (27 January 1879 – 30 October 1943), an English writer, literary critic, poet,feminist and theosophist.Her work was integral to British magazine The New Age which she helped edit.
Most of her work appeared under pseudonyms. These include: Pagan, Alice Morning, A.M.A., E.H., B.L.H., Beatrice Tina, Cynicus, Robert a Field, T.K.L., D. Triformis, Edward Stafford, S. Robert West, V.M., G. Whiz, J. Wilson, Annette Doorly, Hastings Lloyd, Mrs. Malaprop, and T.W.