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Ten Days in a Madhouse

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Nellie Bly

In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …

Ragged Dick

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Horatio Alger, Jr.

Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becomi…

The Little Lame Prince

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Paralyzed in an accident while a baby, young Prince Dolor is imprisoned in a lonely tower by his usurping uncle. He is visited by his myster…

Chapter III, Part 3

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

Part 06

In Daddy-Long-Legs

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Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl…

Chapter 7

In The Getting of Wisdom

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Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…