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Companionable Books

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Henry van Dyke


Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…

Eveline

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James Joyce


Eveline está a punto de dejar su país, Irlanda, para emigrar a través un viaje por barco en compañía de s…

Oswald Bastable and Others

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E. Nesbit


This book is a collection of short stories about different children. Four of the stories feature the Bastable children.(Summary by Natalia )

Paul M. Levitt The Witch Of Beacon Hill


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Saturday-Night Theatre: The Witch of Beacon Hill by Paul M. Levitt Sat 30th Sep 1989, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM In 1924, t…

Diana of the Crossways

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George Meredith


Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miser…

True Stories from History and Biography

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…

Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls

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Helen Ekin Starrett


Helen Ekin Starrett, journalist, mother of two daughters, grandmother of seven granddaughters and teacher to many young girls at the Starret…

Mrs. Dymond

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie


Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to ca…

The Type-Writer Girl

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Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

The White Linen Nurse

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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

Shadows Of The Past by Rosemary Timperley



When I saw the outside of the house I knew it. And that staircase - I knew that. And the tree outside your window - that's an old friend.” A…

Brian Ashbee Colourblind


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Saturday-Night Theatre: Colourblind Sat 16th Apr 1983, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM A comedy by Brian Ashbee With Mary Wimbus…

Who's the Dupe?

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Hannah Cowley


A short farce. Scholar meets woman. "Plato! Aristotle! Zeno! I abjure ye. A girl bred in a nursery, in whose soul the sacred lamp of kn…

Selected Poems

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Susan Boogher


Susan M. Boogher was twentieth-century poet. These poems were published in Poetry, The Century, Harper's Magazine and The Midland from 1918 …

Lady Rose's Daughter

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Mary Augusta Ward


"Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English hi…

April's Lady: A Novel

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Mrs. Hungerford


This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, fin…

Entrapped

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Alice Mangold Diehl


The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Z…

Love Stories

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Ailing and Impatient Patients, Nurturing Nurses, and familial bond. A collection of Love affairs, young and old, deftly told by "Americ…

How Author Beth Moran Broke Her Life of Silence


Sheridan Voysey


Imagine dropping grades in exams because your pen ran out of ink and you couldn’t ask for a replacement. Imagine hiding from friends you saw…

Poems

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Caroline King Duer and Alice Duer Miller


Alice Duer was a successful American author who wrote poetry, novels and screenplays and campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage. Her si…

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