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Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

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Talbot Hughes

Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Wessex Poems

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Thomas Hardy

A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn

Agnes Grey (Version 3)

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Anne Brontë

Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…

Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart

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Chrétien De Troyes

This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face…

Emily Dickinson on Death

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published…

Sappho: A New Rendering

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Sappho

Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although…

A Group of Noble Dames

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Thomas Hardy

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Ch.1-3

In An Elementary Greek Grammar

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Raphael Kühner

We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his "Large" and "School" Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dis…

51 - Book VI, Chapter I

In Henrietta Temple

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Benjamin Disraeli

The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the fa…

The Foundations Of Faith, Part 1

In The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4

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Robert G. Ingersoll

Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the mid-19th century, was a highly sought after lecturer/toastmaster who sold out e…