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The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne  by Dorothy Osborne

The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne by Dorothy Osborne

After refusing a long string of suitors put forth by her family, including her cousin Thomas Osborne, Henry Cromwell (son of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) and Sir Justinian Isham, in 1655 Dorothy Osborne married Sir William Temple, a man with whom she had carried on a lengthy clandestine courtship that was largely epistolary in nature. It is for her letters to Temple, which were witty, progressive and socially illuminating, that Osborne is remembered. Only Osborne’s side of the correspondence survived and comprises a collection of seventy-seven letters held in the British Library. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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The Duchess of Padua

The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde

The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde

Guido Ferranti, a young man, travels to Padua with his friend Ascanio after receiving a mysterious letter from a stranger, claiming to know the true secret of Guido’s birth. His plan of revenge goes awry, however, when he falls in love with his enemy’s beautiful wife, the Duchess of Padua.

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The Return of the Soldier

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper’s daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past–or will they help him recover his memory so that he can return to the front? The answer is revealed through a heart-wrenching, unexpected sacrifice. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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When Knighthood Was in Flower

When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major

When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major

Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has arranged for her to wed King Louis XII of France and demands his sister put the House of Tudor first, threatening, “You will marry France and I will give you a wedding present – Charles Brandon’s head!” (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

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Gentle Julia

Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington

Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington

Penrod for girls in the form of Florence, the bratty younger cousin of luminous Julia Atwater, enlivens this romantic comedy set in Tarkington’s Indiana of the early 20th Century.

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The Lovels of Arden

The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon

The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon

The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first glimpse at love – and that not from the best vantage point.

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The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square

The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture

The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture

Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady. Jeanne Marney, a country girl, comes to London to care for her ailing aunt. She is lonely and unhappy, yet unable to rebel against the many limitations put upon an upper class woman in turn-of-the-century London. Then she becomes an heiress… Would this be a blessing or a curse?

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Poor Folk

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Known as Fyodor Dostoyevski’s first novel, Poor Folk portrays the life of poor people and poverty in a general sense. This novel is short in comparison to most of Fyodor’s other works and is applauded for its humanitarian views. The interesting part is how it is put together. The novel is written as a compilation of letters written between the two main characters.

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That Lass O’ Lowrie’s

That Lass O' Lowrie's by Frances Hodgson Burnett

That Lass O' Lowrie's by Frances Hodgson Burnett

. Set in a Lancashire mining town, That Lass o’ Lowries is a gritty, and at times brutal, tale of romance across the classes, which stands in stark contrast to her later work.

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Marriage and Love

Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman

Marriage and Love by Emma Goldman

The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.

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