Published 1800 -1900
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Charles Reade
A ruthless squire becomes obsessed with a younger woman and conspires against her lover, George Fielding, so that the squire can win her. Wi…
The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society
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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules…
Miss Meredith
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Amy Levy
Miss Meredith is not the most talented of her sisters. In fact, she considers herself the typical of them. She has the adventure of a life t…
The Northern Spy
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J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in …
My Flirtations
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Ella Hepworth Dixon
Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster's The Coquette, focused on how terrible it is for a woman to flirt before her marriage. "I did…
Rachel Gray
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Julia Kavanagh
Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived mo…
Schopenhauer in the Air
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Sadakichi Hartmann
Sadakichi Hartmann was an art and literary critic who wrote plays, short stories and several volumes of poetry. Hauntingly beautiful, these …
The Smuggler
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George Payne Rainsford James
The county of Kent, situated in the south eastern corner of England is ideally placed for the smugglers' trade. Close to London, with its ma…
Sister Dolorosa
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James Lane Allen
A Carmelite convent in Kentucky in the nineteenth century. A beautiful immature nun. A handsome immature visitor. A chance meeting. Whither?…
Strangers at Lisconnel
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Jane Barlow
Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is grea…
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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Rosa Nouchette Carey
Doctor Markus Luttrell and his new wife Olivia, a former governess, are trying to start building their nest. Problems arise when doctor Lutt…
Mauprat
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George Sand
Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin …
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography
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Edwin Eastman
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …
A Rough Shaking
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George MacDonald
Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …
An American Politician
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Francis Marion Crawford
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…
A Daughter of Today
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Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2
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Francis Marion Crawford
Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy pare…
Will Warburton
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George Gissing
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture a…
The Primrose Path
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Bram Stoker
This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments. It is Bram Stoker's first novel, being published 22 years …
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading)
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R. M. Ballantyne
Join us in a journey of two young men in search of adventure as they discover more than they bargained for. - Summary by Linette Geisel(No…