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To my Friend Mrs. Lloyd

In The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems

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Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow

This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in "the Kings and Queens of England"…

Lady Anne Rochford

In The Favor of Kings

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Mary Hastings Bradley

"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…

Chapter XVI

In Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian

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James Stonehouse

These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcrib…

1-14. One Against Three

In The Steam House

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Jules Verne

Jules Verne is back with another action-packed adventure--this time in India with a steam-powered elephant! Maucler, Captain Hood, Banks, an…

Geographic Literature

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 12. December 1896

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National Geographic Society and W. E. B. Du Bois

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Sout…

Friends in Fiction

In Old Friends, Essays in Epistolary Parody

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Andrew Lang

"Every fancy which dwells much with the unborn and immortal characters of Fiction must ask itself, Did the persons in contemporary nove…

The Geography of Wood Lake

In The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

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William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic

The Bunkers are a group of rebellious boys who make life miserable for many on the shores of an upstate New York Lake. Captain Sedley's son,…

The Parson's Courtesy

In The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Life

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George Herbert

George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest. In The Country Parson he describes the roles of the priest and offers practice advic…

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