Short Stories
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Alice Hegan Rice - Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
This is a volume of very cute short stories. Miss Mink for instance invites a lonely soldier to her place for dinner and realises that with this one man the entire world walked into her front door. The other stories...
3 hours 45 minutes
Cooking
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Marion Harland - Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how to select and manage servants and organise a dinner party (best engage a good...
15 hours 33 minutes
General Fiction
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Charles Norris Williamson - Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley
«If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and...
10 hours 50 minutes
Modern (19th C)
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George Davis - Frostiana: or a history of the River Thames in a frozen state
The frost fair of 1814 began on 1 February, and lasted four days. A printer named George Davis published a 124-page book, «Frostiana; or a History of the River Thames in a Frozen State». The entire book was type-set...
2 hours 45 minutes
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