Accession Number

2016.013

Description

Small hardcover book. White spine, red body. Titled "A Mine of Faults"

Narrative

This book titled A Mine of Faults is signed “Muriel Dunsmuir October 15^th 1913”. Her full name was Jessie Muriel Dunsmuir (1890-1959). She used it at her parents' home, Hatley Park, and perhaps later at her Colwood house, Journey's End.

The author Francis William Bain (English, 1863-1940) claimed that many of his works, including this one, were translated from early Sanskrit. Scholars believe that his were original works, and that Bain was heavy influenced by his immersion in ancient Indian mystecism Sanskrit poety. Of Bain's writings, the New York Times said  "the stories are not easy to describe, but it has been said of them that we have nothing in English literature at once so tender, so passionate, so melancholy and so wise."¹

1. New York Times, November 9, 1910.

History of Use

This book was owned and used by Jessie Muriel Dunsmuir (1890-1959)

Date

October 15 1913

Dimensions

17.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 2 cm

Material

Paper

Country of Origin

United Kingdom