Patricia Oakley
23 books
School
917
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School
The story told in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, A Little Princess , was first written as a serialized novella, Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin’s , and published in St. Nicholas Magazine ,...
2 hours
Children's Fiction
1.1K
Mary Everest Boole - Philosophy and Fun of Algebra
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole. She was the author of several works on teaching and teaching mathematics in...
1 hour 41 minutes
General Fiction
979
Sarah Orne Jewett - Country of the Pointed Firs
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because...
4 hours 25 minutes
