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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


Rebecca goes to live with her two stern aunts in a village in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. (summary from Wikipedia)

A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Did you ever contemplate a carreer as a journalist, or to get married? Do you have problems with your children, parents, or colleagues? Do y…

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 …

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

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Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

The Old Peabody Pew

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Woman in the Alcove

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Anna Katharine Green


"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…

Run to Earth

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love…

Marcia Schuyler (version 2)

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Grace Livingston Hill


A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kat…

The Voyage Out (Version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…

The Search

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Grace Livingston Hill


“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

Prelude

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Katherine Mansfield


One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accompli…

Lifted Masks

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Susan Glaspell


In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)

Briarwood Girls

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Julia Lestarjette Glover


Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda V…

Fidelity

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Susan Glaspell


The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…

Eyebright

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Susan Coolidge


"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners…

Kate Atkinson Little Lives


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A funny and moving monologue, written by the Whitbread Prize-winning novelist Kate Atkinson, in which Alannah McKay from Edinburgh is retiri…

George Eliot

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Catherine Brown


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The Child's Book of American Biography

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Mary Stoyell Stimpson


In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

The Whispering Man

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Henry Kitchell Webster


New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'l…

The Leavenworth Case

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, …

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