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Victorian Short Stories
A selection of five short stories with the theme of courtship, written during the Victorian era and previously published elsewhere. - Summar…
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…
The Huguenot
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers…
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.…
The Counterpane Fairy
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…
Agincourt
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 …
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…
Katharine Lauderdale
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…
A Woman's War
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the …
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 Motor Boat Boys' River Chase
Join the Motor Boat Boys as they embark on an exhilarating river chase filled with excitement and camaraderie. In this sixth installment of …
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…
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…
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…
The Fate
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…
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. …
Richelieu
Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…
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…
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…