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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…

Please Do Not Suffer. A Play

In Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

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…

Charmian's Song

In Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol 18, April-September 1921

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Harriet Monroe, Editor and Aline Kilmer


Spring through Fall 1921 in Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe. 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of Poetry magazine. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

The Fisherman of Shetland

In Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories

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P.H. Emerson and P. H. Emerson


A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception …

19 - Chapter XIX. Proserpina

In When Knighthood Was in Flower

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Charles Major


Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henr…

Selected poems

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

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Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Anna Laetitia Barbauld


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

A Day With Lord Byron

In A Day With Great Poets

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May Gillington Byron


Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us …

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