There are few triumphs in my recent life, but I count this as one. My existence of the last three years has been nothing but incident.”The Year is 1883 and Emma M. Lion has returned to her London neighborhood of St. Crispian’s. But Emma’s plans for a charmed and studious life are sabotaged by her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s.Emma M. Lion offers up her Unselected Journals, however self-incriminating they may be, which comprise a series of novella-length volumes. Armed with wit and a sideways amusement, Emma documents the curious realities of her life at Lapis Lazuli House.

    Wortle's School The Duke's ChildrenThe Eustace DiamondsAn Eye for an EyeThe Fixed PeriodFramley ParsonageThe Golden Lion of GranpereHarry Heathcote of GangoilHe Knew He Was RightJohn CaldigateThe Kellys and the O'KellysKept in the DarkLa VendeeThe Last Chronicle of BarsetLinda TresselMiss MackenzieMr. Scarborough's FamilyNina BalatkaPhineas FinnPhineas ReduxThe Prime MinisterRachel RayRalph the HeirSir Harry Hotspur of HumblethwaiteThe Small House at AllingtonThe Three ClerksThe Vicar of BullhamptonThe WardenThe Way We Live Now Non-FictionAutobiography of Anthony TrollopeHunting SketchesNorth America: Vol 1 | Vol 2The Life of CiceroWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Short storiesAaron TrowThe Chateau of Prince PolignacThe Courtship of Susan BellGeorge Walker at SuezThe House of Heine BrothersJohn Bull on the GuadalquivirLa Mere BaucheThe Man Who Kept His Money in a BoxMiss Sarah Jack of Spanish Town, JamaicaThe Mistletoe BoughMrs. General TalboysThe O'Conors of Castle ConorThe Parson's Daughter of Oxney ColneThe Relics of General ChasseReturning HomeA Ride Across PalestineAn Unprotected Female at the Pyramids

    Can they reconcile their differences when their worlds are so very changed by the societal gap which divides them?And when emotions run high, the spirits of The Valiard Mansion stir.THE VALIARD MANSION is an illustrated novel set in 1888. It tells the story of two childhood sweethearts separated by a vengeful ghost. The novel's first two chaptes can be read for free to download today! Visit http://www.thevaliardmansion.com/

    She’s particularly fond of the petrol motor car, a luxury that fuels her longing for independence. Her older brother and guardian, Andrew, however, refuses her frequent requests to learn to drive. He’s been extra protective of Lydia after their parents were killed in a motor car accident, and he’d prefer his sister focus her attention on finding a suitable husband. Lydia and her three best friends anticipate they’ll all get married someday, and they certainly enjoy the attention they receive from their coterie of suitors. But settling down is hardly a priority for any of them when there is so much life to experience. Inspired by the play Peter Pan, which they all saw on the London stage, and its promise of everlasting fun and adventure, the young women vow to seize the day and pursue all that life has to offer, including engaging in meaningful causes like the upcoming, and controversial, women’s suffrage march. Spencer Hayes is a man of practicality, purpose, and innovation, but he lacks the financial backing to make his dreams a reality. When he contacts his childhood friend, Andrew Wooding, about a promising business venture, he is happy to be invited to Briarwall Estate to discuss the terms. Once there, he is surprised to find that Andrew’s shy, younger sister, Lydia, has grown into a young woman of beauty, wit, and a bit of fire. Even better, the two share a passion for motor cars. Torn between his dream for the future and pursuing a relationship with a passionate, free-spirited woman intent on creating her own future, Spencer must figure out how to protect his head and his heart from Lydia who is determined to live life to the fullest—and change the world in the process.

    If a man has no comfort at his own fireside, then he is compelled in self-defence to seek it elsewhere. To recur to the question of buying in cheap markets, the principle that what is good and costs something to begin with will inevitably prove the cheapest in the end is even more clearly demonstrated in the matter of clothing than of food. The best will always wear and look the best, even when it has grown threadbare. Then when we hear so constantly of the appalling misery endured by men and women who make the garments sold in the cheap shops, we are bound to feel that these things are offered at a price which is the cost of flesh and blood. This is a very pressing question, and one which many Christian people do not lay to heart. There appears to be in every human breast the instinct of the bargain-hunter, and there is a placid satisfaction in having got something at an exceptionally low price which charms the finer sensibilities. To gratify this peculiar and morbid craving, witness the system of buying and selling which prevails in Italy; the shopkeepers there, with few exceptions, invariably asking double the money they are willing to accept. And to this craving in our own country is due the system of all cheap sales in the shops, and mock auctions in the sale-rooms, in which many a shortsighted person of both sexes fritter away both time and money. It is a rotten system, and shows that there is great need for reform in this matter of buying and selling, which occupies so much of our time, means, and thought. All good housekeepers know that those who buy in the ready-money market fare best; and besides, the paying out of ready-money is undoubtedly a check on expenditure, and is to be specially recommended to people of small means. It is easy and tempting to give an order, and though it can no doubt be paid for sooner or later, somehow the sum always seems to assume larger proportions as time goes on. We very seldom get in a bill for a...

    They're here for the star of the show - the Great Amazonia warrior. They needn't know this warrior is in fact Zillah, a mixed-race actress from the East End fooling them each night with her thrilling performance.But something is amiss, and when Crillick's new act goes missing Zillah feels compelled to investigate, knowing the fates that can befall women in Victorian London.From the bustle of the West India Docks to the coffee houses of Fleet Street to the parlours of Mayfair, Zillah's journey for answers will find her caught between both sides of her own identity, and between two men: her wealthy white admirer, and an African merchant appalled by her act.Will Zillah be forced to confront the price of her own performance? And in risking everything can she also save herself?Featuring a defiant heroine for our times and a theatrical world of fragile dreams and ruthless ambition, THEATRE OF MARVELS shines a light on the experience of being Black and British in Victorian London through one woman's journey to live her life on her own terms.

    Margery Blake is nothing but a pawn in family affairs, and her marriage is seen as a good match. Margery has no power, or control over her life and endures her husband's rights to her body in order to produce and heir. Margery soon realises 'husband' is merely another title for owner, beater, brute, bully and evil. She finds friendships in the unlikeliest of places."The Diary of Margery Blake transports you back to the 19th century, filling you with the delights and trepidations of Margery's life, with the important issue of gender equality. The novel is inspiring, emotional and one you simply cannot put down." - Clare H, A Book and Tea

    But the deceased Lord Bradford didn’t deliver in the bedchamber. Free from her burdens, Eleanor set out in search of a paramour that would fulfil the desires that she'd only glimpsed during her marriage. She looked around her circle with little success. Until her bland, watered-down solicitor gave signs that a fire burned beneath his impersonal stance. Curious, she decided to peel his insipid surface and his insipid clothes to discover what lay beneath them.At twenty-eight, Walter Gresham inherited the solicitor's firm from its former owner. He's desired Lady Bradford from the first moment he lay eyes on her. But he has a physical condition that prevents him from consorting with decent ladies. As Eleanor literally corners him, he's about to succumb to his rapacious hunger even at the risk of having her flee from him in horrified scorn.Published as a bonus erotic novella in The Lady and the Mill Worker

    

    

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