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By: Elizabeth Davis Bancroft (1803-1886) | |
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Letters from England, 1846-1849
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest circles. In his wife’s letters to their sons, her uncle, her brother, and Mrs. Polk (the President’s wife), we see glimpses not only of early Victorian English life, but also of Queen Victoria herself! Mrs. Bancroft speaks of dinners with Benjamin Disraeli, visits to Wordsworth, weekends in the country with Louis Napolean and Sir Robert Peel with such matter of fact aplomb that one cannot help being impressed. |
By: Elizabeth F. Ellet (1818-1877) | |
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Women of the American Revolution Volume 1
Excerpt from Preface: Their patriotic sacrifices were made with an enthusiasm that showed the earnest spirit ready on every occasion to appear in generous acts. Some gave their own property, and went from house to house to solicit contributions for the army. Colors were embroidered by fair hands, and presented with the charge never to desert them; and arms and ammunition were provided by the same liberal zeal. They formed themselves into associations renouncing the use of teas, and other imported luxuries, and engaging to card, spin, and weave their own clothing. |
By: Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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Mary Barton
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester during the 1830s and 1840s and deals heavily with the difficulties faced by the Victorian lower class. The novel begins in Manchester, where we are introduced to the Bartons and the Wilsons, two working class families. John Barton reveals himself to be a great questioner of the distribution of wealth and the relation between the rich and the poor. He also relates how his sister-in-law Esther has disappeared after she ran away from home... | |
By: Elizabeth Keckley (1818-1907) | |
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Behind the Scenes
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many recollections of her own life and her interactions with the Lincolns and other members of the government elite. |
By: Elizabeth Kimball Kendall | |
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A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia |
By: Elizabeth Lynn Linton (1822-1898) | |
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About Ireland |
By: Elizabeth Miller (1878-1961) | |
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The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt |
By: Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855-1936) | |
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Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties |
By: Elizabeth W. Champney (1850-1922) | |
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Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) |
By: Elizabeth W. Grierson (1869-1943) | |
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Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth but adults will also enjoy them. St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and Canterbury Cathedral in Kent County are central to the story of England, especially church history though not exclusively so. Here are stories of great spiritual leaders, saints, sinners, politicians, kings, soldiers, murders, pilgrimages, common folks, peoples’ spiritualities, spiritual life, civil life. - Summary by david wales |
By: Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson | |
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Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) |
By: Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (1822-1904) | |
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France in the Nineteenth Century
Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) |
By: Ellen Churchill Semple | |
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Influences of Geographic Environment
INFLUENCES OF GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE BASIS OF RATZEL'S SYSTEM OF ANTHROPO-GEOGRAPHY BY ELLEN CHURCHILL SEMPLE PREFACE The present book, as originally planned over seven years ago, was to be a simplified paraphrase or restatement of the principles embodied in Friedrich Ratzel's _Anthropo-Geographie_. The German work is difficult reading even for Germans. To most English and American students of geographic environment it is a closed book, a treasure-house bolted and barred. Ratzel himself realized that any English form could not be a literal translation, but must be adapted to the Anglo-Celtic and especially to the Anglo-American mind... |
By: Ellen Clacy | |
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A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53,
“If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old clergyman’s daughter Ellen and her brother boarded ship for Melbourne then set off to walk to Bendigo. Dressed in her blue serge skirt which doubled as nightwear, she camped under a tent made of blankets, had mutton, damper and tea most meals and on arrival lent her hand to gold washing. And seemed to enjoy it !And amongst other things she tells of colonial life , transportation, emigration and other gold-fields.But you will need to listen to hear more about bush-rangers and orphans as well as what she did with her parasol.” |
By: Ellen Key (1849-1926) | |
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Woman Movement
Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the public sphere and overcoming the traditional perception of gendered activities. The Swedish feminist and this work combined with many more, served as a base for a lot of the 20th century feminist movements. |
By: Ellen Mary Hayes Peck | |
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Travels in the Far East |
By: Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873-1961) | |
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Peking Dust |
By: Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868-1941) | |
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The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization |
By: Ellye Howell Glover (1868-) | |
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How the Piano Came to Be |
By: Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel (1864-) | |
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My Three Days in Gilead |
By: Elmore Barce (1872-1945) | |
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The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 |
By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) | |
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The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado | |
The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West |
By: Emile Cammaerts (1878-1953) | |
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Through the Iron Bars Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium | |
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day |
By: Emile Joseph Dillon (1855-1933) | |
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The Inside Story of the Peace Conference | |
England and Germany |
By: Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964) | |
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True Version of the Philippine Revolution |
By: Emily Bronson Conger | |
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An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China |
By: Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1924) | |
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Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days |
By: Emily Richings | |
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Through the Malay Archipelago |
By: Emma Leslie | |
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Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War |
By: Emma Look Scott (1858-) | |
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How the Flag Became Old Glory |
By: Emma Orczy (1865-1947) | |
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney’s exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in the series. |
By: Emmett J. Scott (1873-1957) | |
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Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization | |
Negro Migration during the War |
By: England and Wales. Sovereign | |
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A Declaration of the Causes, which mooved the chiefe Commanders |
By: Enos A. Mills (1870-1922) | |
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Wild Life on the Rockies
“This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have made scores of long exploring rambles over the mountains in every season of the year, a nature-lover charmed with the birds and the trees. On my later excursions I have gone alone and without firearms. During three succeeding winters, in which I was a Government Experiment Officer and called the “State Snow Observer,” I scaled many of the higher peaks of the Rockies and made many studies on the upper slopes of these mountains.” |
By: Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts | |
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The Story of the "9th King's" in France |
By: Eric Fisher Wood (1889-1962) | |
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The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone |
By: Eric Parker (1870-1955) | |
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Highways and Byways in Surrey |
By: Ernest Albert Savage (1877-1966) | |
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Old English Libraries |
By: Ernest Belfort Bax (1854-1926) | |
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German Culture Past and Present |
By: Ernest Daudet (1837-1921) | |
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Which? or, Between Two Women |
By: Ernest Giles (1835-1897) | |
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Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, |
By: Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling (1855-1911) | |
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Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles |
By: Ernest Scott (1867-1939) | |
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Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia |
By: Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) | |
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The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake |
By: Ernest William Hawkes (1883-) | |
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The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo |
By: Erskine Childers (1870-1922) | |
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The Riddle of the Sands
Containing many realistic details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time... |
By: Estelle M. Hurll (1863-1924) | |
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Child-life in Art
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-child has been his highest ideal. All that human imagination could conceive of innocence and purity and divine loveliness has been shown forth in the delineation of the Babe of Bethlehem. The influence of such art has made itself felt upon all child pictures. It matters not whether the subject be a prince or a street-waif; the true artist sees in him something which is lovable and winning, and transfers it to his canvas for our lasting pleasure. |
By: Esther Singleton (-1930) | |
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Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers |
By: Ethel Sybil Turner | |
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Seven Little Australians
This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is scarcely older than the oldest child of the family. A favourite amongst generations of children for over a century, this story tells of the cheeky exploits of Meg, Pip, Judy, Bunty, Nell, Baby, and The General (who is the real baby of the family), as well as providing a fascinating insight into Australian family life in a bygone era. |
By: Eugène E. (Eugène Edward) Street (-1913) | |
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Spanish Life in Town and Country |
By: Eugene Lawrence and Sir William Smith | |
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A Smaller History of Rome
A SMALLER HISTORY OF ROME, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE. BY WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. NOTICE. The present History has been drawn up chiefly for the lower forms in schools, at the request of several teachers, and is intended to range with the author's Smaller History of Greece. It will be followed by a similar History of England. The author is indebted in this work to several of the more important articles upon Roman history in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.... |
By: Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle (1873-1961) | |
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The Missourian |
By: Eugène Sue (1804-1857) | |
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The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death |
By: Evans, A. J. (1889-1960) | |
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The Escaping Club
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I. |
By: Evelyn Baring Cromer (1841-1917) | |
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Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 |
By: Evelyn Charles Vivian (1882-1947) | |
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A History of Aeronautics |
By: Evelyn March Phillipps (-1915) | |
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The Venetian School of Painting |
By: Ezra Meeker (1830-1928) | |
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Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Ezra Meeker…was an early pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox cart as a young man. Beginning in his 70s, he worked tirelessly to memorialize the trail, repeatedly retracing the trip of his youth. This book is a memoir of those days. |
By: F. (Frank) Brinkley (1841-1912) | |
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A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era |
By: F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Voigt (1892-1957) | |
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Combed Out |
By: F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams | |
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Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people |
By: F. F. Arbuthnot (1833-1901) | |
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Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature |
By: F. J. (Frederick John) Snell (1862-) | |
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The Customs of Old England |
By: F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) | |
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Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome | |
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome |
By: F. Somner (Frederick Somner) Merryweather (1827-1900) | |
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Bibliomania in the Middle Ages |
By: F. W. Reitz | |
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A Century of Wrong |
By: Fa'iz El-Ghusein (1883-1968) | |
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Martyred Armenia
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble include families who courageously support each other in the face of death, and Turks who refuse to follow orders to kill, knowing that they shall be executed themselves for their defiance. |
By: Fabian Franklin | |
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What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933. Franklin contends that the Amendment “is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a crime against the first principles of rational government... |
By: Fanny Burney (1752-1840) | |
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 | |
Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy |
By: Fay-Cooper Cole | |
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The Tinguian
The Tinguian. Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine TribeBy Fay-Cooper Cole INTRODUCTION It seems desirable, at the outset, to set forth certain general conclusions regarding the Tinguian and their neighbors. Probably no pagan tribe of the Philippines has received more frequent notice in literature, or has been the subject of more theories regarding its origin, despite the fact that information concerning it has been exceedingly scanty, and careful observations on the language and physical types have been totally lacking... |
By: Fedor Jagor (1816-1900) | |
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The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes |
By: Felix Speiser (1880-1949) | |
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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific |
By: Ferdinand Ossendowski (1876-1945) | |
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Beasts, Men and Gods
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The difference is: it’s all true.Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing side during the Bolshevik Revolution. To escape being rounded up and shot, he set out with a friend to reach the Pacific, there to take ship back to Europe. During his journey he fell in with dozens of other military men who shared the same objective… but nearly every one of them perished on the way... |
By: Ferdinand Schmidt (1816-1890) | |
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Gudrun
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth century. Next to the "Nibelungen Lied," it is the most important of the German epic poems...The same elemental passions are depicted. The men are brave, vigorous heroes, rejoicing in battle and feats of prowess; the women are beautiful, constant, and courageous. There are many fine delineations of character in the original, as well as vigorous sketches of northern scenery... |
By: Fernão Nunes (16th cent.) | |
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A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India |