Barbara Baker

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Hester Lynch Piozzi - Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

Selections from the «Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany» by Hester Lynch Piozzi who, during her first marriage to Henry Thrale, was the hostess and friend...

Barbara Baker 7 hours 48 minutes

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Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter.

History

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Constance Campbell Petrie - Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter.

Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was to become the colony of Queensland were recorded by his daughter, Constance,...

Barbara Baker and 7 more 12 hours 53 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

362

Charles Hughes - Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana

«It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my knowledge, all the Observations which I might make or hear, all the verses never...

Barbara Baker 1 hour 38 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Lawson - When Your Pants Begin To Go

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is...

Algy Pug and 14 more 59 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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Ford Madox Ford - Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox Ford (here using the surname Hueffer). — Summary by barbara2

Barbara Baker 11 hours 13 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Butler - Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of...

Kristin Lewis and 8 more 15 hours 56 minutes

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Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Memoirs

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Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet - Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court...

Barbara Baker 12 hours 36 minutes

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Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855)

Memoirs

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Samuel Rogers - Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855)

Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinating source material for the social and literary history of Great Britain over...

Barbara Baker 5 hours 46 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Harold Jacoby - Practical Talks by an Astronomer

The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for serious students as well as the general reader; but they are necessarily...

Availle and 11 more 4 hours 57 minutes

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Literary Criticism

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George Henry Lewes - Novels of Jane Austen

An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen at a time when they were yet to achieve great critical acclaim. Lewes was the...

Barbara Baker 1 hour 18 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Horace Walpole - Hieroglyphic Tales

Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for...

Barbara Baker 1 hour 21 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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