The severe, and typical, dustwrapper illustration is by Mabel Dickinson Lapthorn, born in Melbourne in 1889, emigrated to England, designer of movie posters and dustwrappers there, also working in Amsterdam on dustwrappers for Sigrid Undset, Ivan Bunin and Marcelle Capy novels published by J.M. Meulenhof, see a couple of books along.
Cecile Ines Loos' first novel, set in Poland, both before and during World War One, seen through the eyes of an illiterate peasant girl and her employers, or the consciousness of the oppressed; translated from the German by Margaret Goldsmith.
