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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…

La Belle et la Bête, by Leprince de Beaumont, Madame

In Princesses

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Charles Perrault

As Shirley Temple once famously cried (quoting Frances H Burnett), 'Every girl is a princess!', so here are 15 public domain princess storie…

09 - Brown Eyes and Equinoxes

In Mince Pie

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Christopher Morley

Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: &quo…

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 …