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The Forgery
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Thirty Years Since; or, The Ruined Family
Two young men share a carriage from London to the fictional village of Emberton early on a late August morning. One is a Captain Delaware of…
The Counterpane Fairy (version 2)
Teddy has been ill. Now, he is feeling better and is bored; and his exhausted mother needs to rest. He is befriended by the Counterpane Fair…
A Daughter Of The Vine
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, in…
Agincourt: A Romance
The Battle of Agincourt provided a surprise English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place in 1415 and brought a turning point in …
Lord Montagu's Page
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
The Convict
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wal…
Darnley
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 1
Katharine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…
The Ralstons
Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, s…
The Travelling Thirds
The semi-invalid Mrs. Moulton and her long-suffering husband are touring Europe with their two adult daughters, Jane and Lydia. They have fi…
Autobiography of Phineas Pett
Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept…
The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times
The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…
De L'Orme
G.P.R. James was a historian and novelist, who took well-documented historical events and characters and wove stories around minor or imagin…
Ancestors: A Novel
Flora, the daughter of a clergyman, grew up the playmate of the castle children but learned early on that a certain prettiness and good bree…
Richelieu: A Tale of France
Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…
Patience Worth
Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. …
Agnes Sorel
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against…
Rachel Gray
Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived mo…
Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art
A study of ceramics in the Americas: its form, function and ornamentation as well as its history. Produced by the Smithsonian's Department o…