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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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Chapter VIII

In Jerry

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Jean Webster


Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and…

Bleak House - The Court of Chancery

In Tales From Dickens

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Hallie Erminie Rives


The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dicken…