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A Dialogue Between Miss Jenny Peace and Miss Sukey Jennet
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Sarah Fielding
In The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a si…
Book 3, Chapter 1, Part 2
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Catherine Carswell
In Open The Door
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…
A Year Ago
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Marie E. J. Pitt
In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…
Pension Séguin
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Katherine Mansfield
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
She is So Much
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Madison Cawein
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Semele
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Constance Naden
In Sonnets
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…
Spring
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Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
Marie
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Thomas Parker Sanborn
In Selected Poems
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…
The Beautiful
Read by Kathleen Moore
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…
Netlik
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Zachariah Atwell Mudge and Zachariah Atwell Mudge
In North-Pole Voyages
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
Dawn
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Angelina Weld Grimké
In Selected Poems
Angelina Weld Grimké was a poet, playwright and educator. These poems were published between 1923 and 1927. - Summary by Newgatenovel…
A timely warning
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In The Lady's Mile
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …
Beauty
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Seba Smith
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 22
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
To the Reader
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Charlotte Elliott
In Hours of Sorrow
Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…
Romance
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Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Reminders
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Jeannette Fraser Henshall
In Rain and Roses
One reviewer describes these poems as "dainty." Each reflect a delicacy of feeling and sentiment of home, love and nature. Jeanne…
Dialogue
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Marion Strobel
In Selected Poems
Marion Strobel was a poet, an author of fiction and an associate editor of Poetry. These poems were published from 1919 to 1926 in Poetry, O…
San Cristóbal
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Muna Lee
In Sea-change
Muna Lee was a poet, novelist, translator and activist. This collection, first published in 1923, explores themes of love and place. - Summa…