Family & Relationships
The Story Of A Needle
A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made …
The Little Colonel
The Little Kentucky "Colonel," so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love a…
Mary Ware's Promised Land
In this latest and most delightful book Mary's desire to visit "The Locusts," the old home of the "Little Colonel," is g…
The Blue Aunt
This is a very cute children's book. Mr. West's half-sister Matilda is orphaned and she comes staying with the family for a while. It looks …
Green Valley
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper offers a humorous glimpse into the life of Mrs. Smith, a housekeeper who navigates the challenges an…
The Camp Fire Girls' Careers
The next volume in the Camp Fire Series shall be known as "The Camp Fire Girls' Careers." The group of girls who first came togeth…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Domestic Bliss
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) - Summary by David Lawrence
The Friendly Five
"There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of scho…
Bringing up the Boy
''Bringing up the Boy'' is, according to its subtitle, ''A Message to Fathers and Mothers from a Boy of Yesterday concerning the Men of To-m…
The Whole Family
A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage…
Cradock Nowell
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, …
Children's Book of Patriotic Stories
Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, to stand beside the similar collections of Christmas Stories and Thanksgiving Stories, whi…
Little Prudy's Sister Susy
Little Prudy’s Sister Suzy is the second book in the Little Prudy series. It follows three sisters, aged 3 to 8, through the Christmas break…
Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be
In this short pamphlet, Annie Besant - a well-known British women's rights activist - lays down British marriage laws as they were at her ti…
Daddy Takes Us Skating
Hal and Mabel's Daddy knows everything - how a thermometer works, what makes a car go, why we get warm when we run. It's a cold and icy even…
Glitter Girl
One grown daughter is a flagrant San Francisco lesbian who has won and lost an international journalism award only to reinvent herself as a …
The Ship of Stars
What is childhood? For Taffy, the only son of a vicar, it includes prayers, games, and a lot of quality time with his loving family. When Ta…
The Visioning
"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…