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2.2 Three Accounts of Queen Victoria
In Curiosities of Street Literature
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…
Strangers at Lisconnel
Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is grea…
Stella Maris
Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…
The Perfect Reader
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2013
A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
Wanted
Twenty-seven year old Rebecca Meredith feels out of place and unwanted. She has lost her mother, brother, and idolized little sister to the …
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…
Victoria 1837-1887
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Chapter IV
In Dolly and I: Story for Little Folks
Katherine Green an envious girl is given a pretty doll by her Aunt Jane. Christmastime is approaching... Nellie Green her sister who is quit…
The Nightingale
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
A Letter from Tasmania
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
On Demeter’s Breast
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
An Only Offer
In Winter Evening Tales
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
Witchcraft
In A Dozen Ways of Love
A Dozen Ways of Love presents a captivating collection of romantic short stories by Lily Dougall, each exploring the multifaceted nature of …
Alphabet of Celebrities
In Soup of Alphabets, Volume 002
A second helping of Alphabet Books! This collection has a wide-ranging variety of short books, and not only for younger readers, but also fo…
Little Cousin Ranna
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 40, August 3, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
Victoria
In Novelas Cortas de Asensi
Julia de Asensi y Laiglesia (Madrid, 4 de mayo de 1859 - 1921) fue una escritora, periodista y traductora española. En esta obra se c…
An Australian Girl
In A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose
A collection of Australian writing from the public domain.
The Christmas Present
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2008
The multilingual Christmas Short Works Collection 2008, containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, hymns, and scripture passages…
Ellen
In Our Village, Volume 1
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…