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Part VI Chapter II: Alliance with Sir Bartle Frere

In The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2

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Edward Tyas Cook

A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of he…

A Constructive Critic of the Book

In The Booklover and His Books

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Henry Lyman Koopman

This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…

Chapter 4

In Rezanov

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Gertrude Atherton

This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806,…

Chapter 01

In The Visioning, A Novel

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Susan Glaspell

"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…

Lord Ellingham and Tom Rain

In The Mysteries of London Vol. III

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George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially se…

Joris-Karl Huysmans (I)

In Figures of Several Centuries

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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…