MaryAnn
418 books
Essays & Short Works
1.5K
Harriet Martineau - Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid
Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick...
5 hours 15 minutes
General Fiction
689
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - White Linen Nurse (version 2)
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and...
5 hours 15 minutes
Christianity - Other
1.7K
Samuel Logan Brengle - When the Holy Ghost Is Come
«The writer, Colonel Brengle, gives us not only of the fruit of an orderly and well-stored mind on the great subject before us, but— and this is the more important—he tells us of the actual work of the Holy Spirit...
5 hours 15 minutes
War & Military
613
Kate John Finzi - Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front
«But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitterness of a valiant retreat, the horror of forced marches along parched roads, with...
5 hours 13 minutes
War & Military
706
John Watson Foster - War Stories for My Grandchildren
After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than rely on his memory, he conducted research for accuracy. He served as a colonel...
5 hours 4 minutes
