Charlotte Eliza Humphry

British Library reprint. Dust jacket intact. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

"Work and sympathy are the two great essentials in the making of a beautiful countenance." "Quite half the effect of one's appearance depends on successfully 'doing the hair.'" "Brushing the eyebrows and eyelashes every morning with a solution of green tea improves them." First published in 1899, this forthright guide gives fascinating insights into the beauty strategies of the Edwardian age. Startlingly modern advice on the benefits of sleep, exercise, and fresh air blends with intriguing techniques for washing hair (with egg yolk), brushing teeth (with myrrh and borax), and improving posture (sleeping without pillows to improve an "uncouth gait"). Banishing fashion faux-pas with its breezy common sense, How to be Pretty Though Plain celebrates our enduring preoccupation with looking one's best.

How to Be Pretty Though Plain

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Carolly Erickson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The Life of Queen Victoria

A multilayered portrait of Queen Victoria describes the life and reign of a monarch who ruled for sixty-four years, offering a very human portrait of a woman who lost her beloved husband and went on to carry out her duties as mother, grandmother, and queen of England. 25,000 first printing.

Her Little Majesty

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Mark Twain

Oliver Ho

Arthur Pober

New York

Retold from the Mark Twain Original

An abridged version of the adventures of a nineteenth-century boy and a runaway slave as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Classic Starts®: the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Charles. Dickens

David Trotter

This is a flex cover material that is neither paperback nor hardcover, but something in between. 🤷‍♀️

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Washington

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman

Great Expectations (Paper Mill Press Edition)

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Eric Gustafson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Young Christian

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Mississippi

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

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Kate Summerscale

Indiana

The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Wicked Boy

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#fiction #historical #historicalfiction #paperback #london #19thcentury 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.

Beautiful Lies

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Susanna Moodie

Margaret Atwood

Oregon

The author immigrated to Ontario from Suffolk during the 1830s and wrote this memoir of her experiences and hardships as a Canadian settler.

Roughing It in the Bush

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Jane Smiley

A Novel

Offers the pre-Civil War memoirs of an abolitionist who in 1855 enters the fray between Kansas free-staters and slave-holding Missourians

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

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Julian Fellowes

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, Belgravia is people by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's n0w legendary ball, one family's life will change forever. Facebook: JulianFellowesBelgravia Twitter: @JFBelgravia Pinterest: /Belgravia Instagram: @julianfellowesbelgravia

Julian Fellowes's Belgravia

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James Ruddick

Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England

In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later died an agonizing death. His doctors immediately determined that he had been poisoned. The graphic and sensational details of the case would capture the public imagination of Victorian England as the investigation dominated the press for weeks, and the list of suspects grew to include Florence, her secret lover the eminent doctor James Gully, her longtime companion the housekeeper Mrs. Cox, and the recently dismissed stableman George Griffiths. But ultimately no murderer could be determined, and despite the efforts of numerous historians, criminologists, and other writers since (including Agatha Christie), the case has never been definitively solved. Now James Ruddick retells this gripping story of love, greed, brutality, and betrayal among the elite -- offering an intimate portrait of Victorian culture and of one woman's struggle to live in this repressive society, while unmasking the true murderer for the first time. Simultaneously a murder mystery, colorful social history, and modern-day detective tale, Death at the Priory is a thrilling read and a window into a fascinating time. "An impressively researched retelling ... Death at the Priory reads as a historical intervention, crime novel, and sensational docudrama." -- Zarena Aslami, Chicago Tribune "A suspenseful and stimulating read." -- Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times "Enjoyable; Ruddick has done much admirable sleuthing." -- Paul Collins, The New York Times Book Review

Death at the Priory

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan-- merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados—a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past— a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom. A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of THE THORN BIRDS and NORTH AND SOUTH, THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds.

The Summer Country

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Sarah Blake

Former library book. Has plastic cover. Back cover has some damage (pictured). Binding solid, pages clean. 

North Carolina

A beautifully told, captivating novel of 19th century love and intrigue

Maisie Thomas spends every summer with her parents at Grange House, a hotel on an island off the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant but distant Miss Grange. In 1898, when Maisie turns 17, her visit marks a turning point. On the morning after her arrival, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: two drowned lovers, found clasped in each other's arms. It's only the first in a series of events that cast a shadow over Maisie's summer. As she considers the attentions of two very different young men, one an adventurous writer, the other an ambitious businessman from her father's company, Maisie also falls under the gaze of Miss Grange, who begins to tell her stories of her past. But which are truth and which are fiction? Another death, a cache of diaries, an exchange of letters--and a ghostly apparition--all play a part in changing Maisie's life forever.

Rich with the details, customs, and language of the era, GRANGE HOUSE is part family saga, part ghost-story, part love story; a wonderfully atmospheric, page-turning novel of literary suspense and romance.


Grange House

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Lilian Nattel

Florida

Lilian Nattel, the acclaimed author of The River Midnight, masterfully brings to life a vanished world -- the lanes boiling with the steam from kettles of laundry, the smokestacks belching coal dust, the chatter of tailors, piemen, and thieves. This is where Nehama arrives with her dreams of independence, not realizing the dangers that a girl on her own must face. Tricked into prostitution and with only the whispers of her deceased grandmother to guide her, she escapes into the alleys of the East End, where bustling market stalls and penny seats at the theater are just a handsbreadth away from the criminal warrens. In the Jewish ghetto Nehama makes a new life, remembering the lessons of the street to help another runaway, Emilia, pregnant and unwed. But Emilia refuses a hardscrabble life and, relinquishing her baby to Nehama, re-creates herself in the chic streets of the West End. Nattel intertwines the stories of these women as they build their lives in two sides of the city.With stunningly vivid prose Nattel writes of the chaos of this rich city life; she tells the stories of whores and rabbis, street vendors and artists, sweatshops and Yiddish theater, and she beautifully renders the courage of mothers and sisters navigating dangerous realms.This is a remarkable tale of two unforgettable women and the child that unites them in the maelstrom of fin de siècle London.

The Singing Fire

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Donald Hall

Describes the day-to-day life of an early nineteenth-century New England family throughout the changing seasons.

Ox-Cart Man

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Bonnie Leon

Writing inside front cover. Otherwise pristine. 

Northern Lights Trilogy --  Book 1

The Journey of Eleven Moons

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Very small crease on front cover (as shown)

The Portrait of a Lady (vintage 1963) 

#paperback #fiction #janesusten #mrdarcy #regency #romance #prideandprejudice #pemberly #companionvolume #19thcentury #1800s nearly perfect condition, a small dent on cover,  minor, see photos. 

A Companion Volume to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Book 1

"Those with a taste for the balance and humour of Austen will find a worthy companion volume."--Book News

The weddings are over.

The guests (including millions of readers and viewers) wish the two happy couples health and happiness. As the music swells and the credits roll, two things are certain: Jane and Bingley will want for nothing, while Elizabeth and Darcy are to be the happiest couple in theworld!

The couples' personal stories of love, marriage, money, and children are woven together with the threads of social and political history of nineteenth century England. As changes in industry and agriculture affect the people of Pemberley and the neighboring countryside, the Darcys strive to be progressive and forward-looking while upholding beloved traditions.

Rebecca Ann Collins follows them in imagination, observing and chronicling their passage throughthe landscape of their surroundings, noting how they cope with change, triumph, and tragedy in their lives.

"A lovely complementary novel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Austen would surely give her smile of approval." --Beverly Wong, author of Pride & Prejudice Prudence

Pemberley Chronicles

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Kay Moore

I have other books available about the Civil War 

If you lived at the time of the Civil War
--Would you have seen a battle?
--Did you continue to go to school?
--Was it hard to get food?

This book tells you what it was like to live at the time of the Civil War from 1861 to 1865.

If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War

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Allan W. Eckert

Incident at Hawk's Hill

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Frederick Douglass

An American Slave

The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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Colson Whitehead

Structurally the book is in good condition. There are a few creases on the front and back covers. The first page is yellowed as well as the top of the pages. Pages 209-222 are a little wrinkled. Please see pictures.

Ohio

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.

The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-In)

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Vintage- from 1955 and in great condition for an almost 70 y/o paperback! 350 pages, 17 short stories. 
I ship with 24 hr of an order’s receipt!

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