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Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls

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Pansy


Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, exce…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

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Various


Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Di…

Earthbound

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Artemis Greenleaf


“I didn’t believe in ghosts, not until I became one.” Schuyler Ramsey just wants to be like the other kids in school. Too bad she’s dead. Sh…

Letters from Egypt

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Lucie Duff-Gordon


As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

The Blythe Girls: Helen, Margy and Rose

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Laura Lee Hope


The Blythe sisters, orphaned and near-penniless are completely on their own. With the last of their resources, they move from their lovely b…

Spun from Fact

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Pansy


As the title suggests, this story is from real events. As the author explains in the last chapter, all of the events are true; the conversat…

Emma

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Jane Austen


Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and f…

What Katy Did (version 2)

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Susan Coolidge


Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage)

Emily

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Teel McClanahan III


Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the worl…

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…

The Precipice

Read by Mary Schneider


Elia Wilkinson Peattie


Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…

Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities …

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


In "Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School"; Or, "Fast Friends in the Sororities," the girl chums will appear as mem…

The Maid Of Sker

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore


Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This…

Diana

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Susan Warner


Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother…

Consider the Lillies (Carla, Kristie, Bethany)


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Consider the Lillies (Carla, Kristie, Bethany)

Molly Brown's Freshman Days

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Nell Speed


Molly Brown has left Kentucky for the first time, to enter Wellington University. She has much to learn about college life, but she meets m…

Literature and Form

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Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

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Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

A Little Country Girl

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Susan Coolidge


Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters…

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

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Alice Duer Miller


A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…

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