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Woman in Science

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John Augustine Zahm


A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. (summary by Guero)

Literature and Form

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Catherine Brown


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The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses

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G. K. Chesterton


This book of poetry by G. K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. (Summary by Maria Theres…

The Third Miss Symons

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F. M. Mayor


Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world,…

A Chautauqua Idyl

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Grace Livingston Hill


The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.

Private Property

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Seth Kenlon


Fear and Loathing in Post Apocalyptic America. The future, after the genetic experiments of the great Doctor Patricia R. Durham, leaves all …

Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening

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Pansy


Five stories with the general themes of foreign missions, money, and hypocrisy.Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening: A young wife in a new city is …

A Pickle For the Knowing Ones

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Timothy Dexter


Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …

Orlando, A Biography (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

Flaming June

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


The immensity of the gulf between England and the United States manifests itself on several levels in this story of a young girl’s innocent …

Ideala

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Sarah Grand


She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed …

The Wit of Women

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Kate Sanborn


It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…

Collected Works of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding


A collection of 4 short works by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. - Summary by Krista Zaleski

Concerning Isabel Carnaby

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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler


Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of h…

Melancolia

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Alfonsina Storni


Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

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Samuel Richardson


"Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes.A Narrative wh…

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee


Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Volume 2

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Samuel Richardson


Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances to…

The Visioning, A Novel

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Susan Glaspell


"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…

Confidence

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Henry James


This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine…

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