Hardback. 244pp. Engraved portrait frontis. Memoir of the writer and abolitionist Amelia Opie. Amelia Opie (1769-1853) was a novelist and a founding member of the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich with Anna Gurney. The society presented an antislavery petition of 187000 names of which the first two were Amelia Opie and Priscilla Buxton. This memoir is not to be confused with Cecilia Lucy Brightwell’s earlier work “Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie, selected and arranged from her Letters and Diaries and other manuscripts” and differs from the former quite considerably. This volume focuses on the religious inner life of Opie, who was member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) rather than her life as a novelist. Her religious beliefs inspired her abolitionism, as with other prominent abolitionists such as William Wilberforce. Opie was one of the few women pictured on The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840 painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon, representing the first World Anti-Slavery Convention that met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London; on the painting Opie is distinctive in the tall black hat. Opie was the wife of portrait painter John Opie. CLB was the daughter of Opie’s friend and literary executor Thomas Brightwell. Blind stamped decorative cloth. Gilt titles to spine. Unevenly sunned more significantly to the spine. Pencil note to endpapers. Slight age toning to the margins. Clean and sound.