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Billie Bradley and the School Mystery
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Janet D. Wheeler
How Billie clears up a mystery in which she is apparently implicated makes delightful reading. (From old ad)This is the eighth book in the &…
Heroines of Fiction
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William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 06
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Sue Eckstein - Old School Ties
Stand-up comedian Kit Nichols likes to satirise his boarding school experiences, but his past takes on a different light when he r…
The House of Mirth (Version 2)
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Edith Wharton
Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love. (Su…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
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Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
A Student's History of American Literature
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William Simonds
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
The House on the Scar
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Bertha Thomas
A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)
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Maria Thompson Daviess
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…
Little Novels
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Wilkie Collins
Master Victorian storyteller Wilkie Collins, author of classics such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, brings us a collection of nove…
The History of Britain
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John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
Newshound
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Stephen Marlowe
The Fourth Estate was highly specializedin the 22nd Century; for example, a good newsmanpredicted coming events—and made them happen.... - S…
The Lost Art of Reading
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Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Helen in the Editor's Chair
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Ruthe S. Wheeler
After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Impetuous, self-centered Rhoda goes to boarding school and learns hard lessons. This is a story of recklessness and forgiveness. (Summary b…
The Story Of A Modern Woman
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. …
Susan Jane Harrison Alaska
Alaska by Susan Jane-Harrison Against the backdrop of Alaska, boy meets girl across a bar. It might be the start of a romance, but this is a…
George Sand
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Bertha Thomas
A Victorian Novelist herself, Bertha Thomas presents a biography of the Life of George Sand - Summary by Christine Rottger
Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol
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PEGGY DELANEY by James W. Nichol A hard-drinking, hard-writing forty-ish Toronto newspaper columnist who can more than hold her own wi…
The Female Detective
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Andrew Forrester
This 1864 collection of stories is one of the first books featuring a female detective character. Andrew Forrester (pseudonym of James Reddi…