Life of General Gordon (late Victorian biography of this British military hero)

Eva Hope, Life of General Gordon. London: Walter Scott, Ltd., no date (but advertisements of other publications are dated 1892)

Hard cover, crown octavo, original Victorian cloth binding, gilt, 369 pages, edges of text-block gilt.

Cloth lightly rubbed, bottom corners of boards slightly bruised (see image), minor foxing. Earlier owner's name on front free endpapers. Good condition.

'Eva Hope' is probably a pseudonym used by Marianne Farningham, who was one of the few female writers in the Victorian period to emerge from the lower classes. 

This biography covers Gordon's early life, military campaigns (including his time in the Crimean War and the Taiping Rebellion in China), his efforts to abolish the slave trade in Sudan, and his final mission in Khartoum.