item: #1 of 20 id: 11549 author: Prentiss, George Lewis title: The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss date: None words: 261833 flesch: 82 summary: Oh, I am so happy now in the _other_ life! The new serial, her Bible-readings, and painting, with visits to sick- rooms and to the house of mourning, during the early half of this year, left little time for correspondence. keywords: afternoon; baby; bed; believe; bible; book; boy; care; character; children; christ; christian; church; comfort; coming; day; days; deal; dear; death; delight; dorset; earth; evening; experience; eyes; face; faith; family; father; feeling; following; friends; george; god; going; good; half; hand; having; health; heart; heaven; heavenward; help; home; hope; hours; house; human; husband; interest; joy; kind; left; letter; life; little; look; lord; love; loving; man; meeting; mind; miss; months; morning; mother; mrs; nature; need; new; night; pain; papa; payson; people; place; point; poor; prayer; prentiss; read; reading; rest; room; saw; school; sense; sister; smith; sorrow; soul; speak; spirit; spiritual; state; story; suffering; summer; sunday; sympathy; talk; tell; things; thought; time; visit; want; way; week; wife; winter; wish; wonder; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; york cache: 11549.txt plain text: 11549.txt item: #2 of 20 id: 15045 author: Piozzi, Hester Lynch title: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings date: None words: 100069 flesch: 69 summary: _Mrs. Thrale_. _Mrs. Thrale_. keywords: account; anecdotes; away; baretti; bath; book; boswell; burney; character; children; company; conduct; conversation; country; d'arblay; daughter; day; days; dear; death; dinner; doctor; evening; family; father; footnote; friend; gentleman; god; good; half; hand; health; heart; home; hope; house; husband; ill; italy; johnson; june; kind; lady; leave; letter; life; london; long; lord; love; madame; man; marriage; men; mind; miss; miss thrale; money; morning; mrs; new; people; piozzi; place; poor; power; pretty; reason; return; room; set; sir; streatham; street; subject; think; thought; thrale; thraliana; time; verses; wish; woman; world; years; young cache: 15045.txt plain text: 15045.txt item: #3 of 20 id: 17172 author: Brown, John Crombie title: The Ethics of George Eliot's Works date: None words: 29136 flesch: 55 summary: This richly-crowded canvas presents to us such variety of illustration of the two great antagonistic principles of human life--self-pleasing and self-abnegation, love of pleasure and the love of God more or less absolute and consummate--that it is no easy task to select from among them. In it the author takes up--not a new scope, but extends one that has all along been present, and that indeed was inevitably associated with her great ethical principle,--the bringing of that principle definitely and directly to bear upon not only every domestic but every social and political relation of human life. keywords: aim; death; eliot; father; fedalma; george; god; good; heart; hope; humanity; joy; life; love; man; nature; power; purity; relations; right; romola; self; sorrow; soul; thought; time; truth; works; wrong cache: 17172.txt plain text: 17172.txt item: #4 of 20 id: 19011 author: Shorter, Clement King title: Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle date: None words: 183723 flesch: 79 summary: You are not to suppose by that expression that I am under the influence of _warm_ affection for Mde. Speculation concerning the author of _Jane Eyre_ was sufficiently rife during those seven sad years of literary renown to make a biography imperative when death came to Charlotte Bronte in 1855. keywords: account; anne; anne bronte; bell; book; branwell; branwell bronte; bronte; brussels; c. bronte; case; character; charlotte bronte; children; course; day; days; dear; dear ellen; death; ellen; ellen nussey; ellen,--i; emily; evening; eyre; family; father; fear; friend; gaskell; good; half; haworth; health; heart; home; hope; house; jane; kind; know; lady; leave; left; letter; life; london; look; love; man; mary; mind; miss; miss bronte; morning; mother; mrs; new; nicholls; note; nussey; papa; people; place; pleasure; present; read; return; rev; right; room; school; sir; sisters; smith; subject; taylor; thackeray; things; thought; time; trust; truth; visit; way; week; williams; wish; woman; wooler; work; world; writing; years cache: 19011.txt plain text: 19011.txt item: #5 of 20 id: 2528 author: Mason, Amelia Gere title: The Women of the French Salons date: None words: 92594 flesch: 68 summary: I do not know but Mme de Coulanges has already sent you word of our after-dinner conversations at Gourville's about people who have taste above or below their intelligence. de Staal de Launay, said Grimm. keywords: age; beauty; century; character; charm; circle; conversation; days; de la; de lambert; de lespinasse; de rambouillet; de scudery; de sevigne; de stael; de tencin; death; esprit; fashion; fayette; fine; friends; friendship; genius; good; great; heart; husband; influence; intellect; letters; life; light; literature; love; manners; mind; mlle; mme; nature; passion; people; period; power; read; salon; social; society; soul; spirit; talent; taste; things; thought; time; wit; women; world; years cache: 2528.txt plain text: 2528.txt item: #6 of 20 id: 25789 author: Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) title: Emily Brontë date: None words: 70766 flesch: 74 summary: 'Shirley' is too independent for our taste; and, for the rest, we are all in love with Caroline Helstone. Disinterested, headstrong, noble Emily Brontë, at this time, while your magical sister was weaving for you, with golden words, a web of fate as fortunate as dreams, the true Norns were spinning a paler shrouding garment. Lecture on Emily Brontë. keywords: anne; book; branwell; brontë; brother; catharine; character; charlotte; charlotte brontë; children; day; days; dead; dear; death; earnshaw; ellen; emily; emily brontë; eyes; father; friend; girls; good; half; hand; haworth; heart; heathcliff; heights; home; house; life; linton; love; man; mind; miss; moors; mother; mrs; nature; night; place; quiet; room; round; school; sisters; soul; spirit; strong; things; thought; time; wild; work; world; years; young cache: 25789.txt plain text: 25789.txt item: #7 of 20 id: 26152 author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna) title: Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical date: None words: 106922 flesch: 66 summary: Such characters are not easily exhibited in the colors of poetry, and when we meet with them there, we are reminded of the effect of Raffaelle's pictures. Schlegel's observations are also brief and general, and in no way distinguish Isabella from many other characters; neither did his plan allow him to be more minute. keywords: affection; alda; antony; beatrice; beauty; character; cleopatra; constance; cordelia; daughter; death; desdemona; effect; fair; fancy; father; feeling; female; good; grace; hand; hath; heart; heaven; hermione; history; honor; husband; imagination; imogen; intellect; interest; isabella; juliet; katherine; king; lady; life; lord; love; macbeth; manner; medon; mind; moment; mother; nature; ophelia; passion; place; play; poetry; poor; portia; power; pride; queen; real; scene; self; sense; sentiment; shakspeare; simplicity; situation; son; soul; speak; spirit; temper; tenderness; thee; think; thou; thought; thy; time; truth; wife; woman; words; world; young cache: 26152.txt plain text: 26152.txt item: #8 of 20 id: 27620 author: Black, Helen C. title: Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day date: None words: 5293 flesch: 70 summary: Thoroughly domestic in all her tastes, with a love of gardening, and a practical knowledge of all the details of country life, which tend to make the home so comfortable, her unfailing sweet temper, ready wit and _espièglerie_, her powers of sympathy and strong common sense, caused her to be the life and center of her large household. [Transcriber's note: Helen C. BLACK, article Mrs. Hungerford in _Notable women authors of the day_ (1893) 1906 edition] NOTABLE WOMEN AUTHORS OF THE DAY, By HELEN C. BLACK _ keywords: author; bandon; cork; days; home; hungerford; life; mrs; time; work; years cache: 27620.txt plain text: 27620.txt item: #9 of 20 id: 30435 author: Ritchie, Anne Thackeray title: A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen date: None words: 55608 flesch: 71 summary: 'Before we had reached the place where the cart had been blown up,' says Mrs. Edgeworth, 'Mr. Edgeworth suddenly recollected that he had left on the table in his study a list of the yeomanry corps which he feared might endanger the poor fellows and their families if it fell into the hands of the rebels. With characteristic directness she did not take us into the library until she had told us that we should find there Mrs. Alison, of Edinburgh, and her aunt, Miss Sneyd, a person very old and infirm, and that the only other persons constituting the family were Mrs. Edgeworth, Miss Honora Edgeworth, and Dr. Alison, a physician.... keywords: aikin; austen; away; barbauld; book; brother; children; country; daughter; day; days; death; edgeworth; eyes; family; father; feeling; friends; good; heart; home; honora; house; interest; jane; lady; letter; life; little; london; love; madame; man; maria; mind; miss; miss edgeworth; mother; mrs; nature; new; opie; people; place; poor; read; sister; story; things; time; way; wife; woman; work; world; writing; years cache: 30435.txt plain text: 30435.txt item: #10 of 20 id: 34613 author: Whitmore, Clara Helen title: Woman's Work in English Fiction, from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian Period date: None words: 69461 flesch: 70 summary: In _Ethelinda_ there are beautiful descriptions of the English Lakes, part of the scene being laid at Grasmere; _Celestina_ is in the romantic Provence; _Desmond_ in Normandy; and in _ Andrew Lang in the introduction to _Rob Roy_ in the Border edition of the _Waverley Novels_ calls attention to the fact that Waverley, Guy Mannering, Lovel of _The Antiquary_, and Frank Osbaldistone were all poets. keywords: age; austen; author; book; brontë; century; chapter; characters; charles; charlotte; children; country; daughter; day; death; edgeworth; elizabeth; england; english; family; father; fiction; friend; gaskell; genius; george; good; heroine; history; husband; interest; jane; ladies; lady; life; like; london; lord; love; man; maria; mary; mind; miss; mrs; nature; new; novel; people; place; plot; poor; romance; scott; second; shelley; sir; smith; society; stories; story; thought; time; village; wife; william; women; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 34613.txt plain text: 34613.txt item: #11 of 20 id: 36641 author: Marshall, Emma title: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign: A Book of Appreciations date: None words: 66488 flesch: 65 summary: Amongst her most popular works also are The Channings and Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, 1862; The Shadow of Ashlydyat, 1863; St. Martin's Eve, 1866; A Life's Secret, 1867; Roland Yorke, a sequel to The Channings, 1869; Johnny Ludlow, stories re-printed from the _Argosy_, 1874 to 1885; Edina, 1876; Pomeroy Abbey, 1878; Court Netherleigh, 1881; and many other stories and novels. Cherry and Violet was a tale of the plague of London; Edward Osborne told of the apprentice who leapt from the window of a house on London Bridge to save his master's daughter from drowning; The Old Chelsea Bunhouse described the haunts with which Miss Manning was familiar; and there were other stories of country life, such as the Ladies of Bever Hollow. keywords: age; author; book; brontë; character; charlotte; child; children; daughter; day; days; death; eliot; english; family; father; fiction; gaskell; george; girl; good; great; half; heart; henry; hero; home; house; husband; interest; john; kind; lady; life; little; love; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; new; novel; paul; people; place; power; reader; sense; sisters; stories; story; things; thought; time; way; wife; woman; wood; work; world; writer; years cache: 36641.txt plain text: 36641.txt item: #12 of 20 id: 36965 author: Miller, Florence Fenwick title: Harriet Martineau date: None words: 72372 flesch: 65 summary: The earlier tales, such as _Life in the Wilds_ and _Brooke Farm_, are not to be compared, as mere stories, with even those written later on by only eight or nine stirring eventful months, such as _Ireland_ and _ I have reason to know that if Harriet Martineau had supposed it to be even remotely possible that so much of her life remained to be spent and recorded, she would have chosen some one more skilled in literature, and more closely acquainted with English literary and political affairs, to complete her Life. keywords: american; article; atkinson; book; case; character; child; course; daily; day; death; fact; felt; friend; good; hand; harriet; harriet martineau; heart; history; home; house; interest; kind; letters; life; love; man; martineau; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; news; number; people; power; public; review; room; sense; series; society; story; subject; think; thought; time; volume; way; women; work; write; writing; years cache: 36965.txt plain text: 36965.txt item: #13 of 20 id: 377 author: Barker, Nettie Garmer title: Kansas Women in Literature date: None words: 6994 flesch: 74 summary: The author of that versatile little book of short stories, The Lower Bureau Drawer is Emma Upton Vaughn, a Kansas City, Kansas teacher. Her Passing From Under The Partial Eclipse did much to give Kansas City, Kansas her recognized place commercially on the map. keywords: author; book; children; city; heart; kansas; margaret; mary; mrs; poems; school; state; stories; story; verse; women; work; writer; years cache: 377.txt plain text: 377.txt item: #14 of 20 id: 37955 author: Marshall, Julian, Mrs. title: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 106779 flesch: 77 summary: The earlier portions of the journal having been placed also at Professor Dowden's disposal for his _Life of Shelley_, it will be found that in my first volume many passages indispensable to a life of Mary Shelley have already appeared, in one form or another, in Professor Dowden's pages. She is remembered as _Mary Shelley_, wife of the poet. keywords: account; august; boat; byron; charles; child; children; clairmont; clare; day; days; dear; death; england; evening; evening shelley; family; fanny; father; friends; gisborne; godwin; good; greek; half; harriet; having; health; hogg; home; hope; house; hunt; jane; journal; june; left; letter; life; little; london; lord; love; man; march; mary; mary shelley; mind; monday; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; october; peacock; pisa; place; poor; present; read; return; shelley; skinner; street; subject; sunday; talk; things; thought; thursday; time; town; visit; walk; way; wednesday; wife; williams; wish; work; world; write; years cache: 37955.txt plain text: 37955.txt item: #15 of 20 id: 37956 author: Marshall, Julian, Mrs. title: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 2 (of 2) date: None words: 109389 flesch: 77 summary: So, dear Trelawny, you remember still poor Mary Shelley; thank you for your remembrance, and a thousand times for your kind letter. She negotiates the matter--Entreats for certain modifications--The title is altered to _Adventures of a Younger Son_--The author's vexation--Mary's patience--Horace Smith's assistance--Trelawny surmises that fate may unite him and Mary Shelley some day--My name will never be Trelawny--Publication of the _Adventures_--Trelawny's later _Recollections of Shelley, Byron, and the Author_--His rare appreciation of Shelley--Singular discrepancies between the first and second editions of the book--Complete change of tone in later life with regard to Mrs. Shelley--Conclusions 204-232 CHAPTER XXIII OCTOBER 1831-OCTOBER 1839 Godwin's _Thoughts on Man_ (1830)--Letter to Mary--Letter from Clare--Question of Percy's going to a public school. 1831. keywords: book; byron; change; child; clare; come; course; day; days; dear; death; england; father; feeling; friend; godwin; good; health; heart; hope; house; hunt; interest; italy; jane; journal; july; kind; know; left; letter; life; literary; little; look; lord; love; man; mary; mary shelley; mind; money; months; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; people; percy; place; poor; present; return; sea; shelley; sir; son; spirits; subject; tell; things; thought; time; trelawny; way; williams; wish; words; work; world; write; writing; years cache: 37956.txt plain text: 37956.txt item: #16 of 20 id: 38596 author: Black, Helen C. title: Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches date: None words: 85346 flesch: 67 summary: anonymously to Mr. John Blackwood, the late distinguished editor of _Blackwood_, who--much struck with its promise--at once accepted and published it. Having had so much of this, and rather weak health to struggle against, it is the greatest wonder to me that she has been able to write as many books as she has done, and in so bright a spirit as many are written. keywords: age; alexander; author; black; blue; book; character; children; country; dark; daughter; day; days; death; door; drawing; england; eyes; family; father; favourite; french; friends; george; girl; good; hall; hand; hardy; head; home; hostess; hours; house; husband; interest; john; kind; lady; late; left; life; literature; london; look; looking; love; low; marryat; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; new; novel; oak; paper; pen; people; pictures; place; present; red; remarks; right; room; round; school; second; set; sir; sister; society; stands; stories; story; study; table; tea; time; visit; volume; walls; way; white; wife; winter; woman; work; world; writer; writing; years; young cache: 38596.txt plain text: 38596.txt item: #17 of 20 id: 47643 author: Gilchrist, Anne (Anne Burrows) title: Mary Lamb date: None words: 78181 flesch: 74 summary: Reprinted here, for the first time, is a little essay on _Needle-work_ (regarded from an industrial, not an art point of view), by Mary Lamb (p. 186), unearthed from an obscure and long-deceased periodical--_The British Lady's Magazine_--for which I have to thank Mr. Edward Solly, For, having in his old age drifted into an almshouse at Newcastle, the tale of his wanderings and his woes found its way into print and finally into Hone's _Every Day Book_, where, meeting the eyes of Charles and Mary Lamb, it awakened in both old memories which took shape in the sketch called _Captain Starkey_. keywords: book; brother; charles; charles lamb; child; coleridge; day; days; dear; death; family; father; friend; god; going; good; great; hand; hazlitt; head; heart; home; hope; house; ill; kind; lady; lamb; letter; life; little; long; look; love; man; mary; mary lamb; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; new; night; place; pleasure; poor; return; room; sarah; set; sister; tales; things; thought; time; town; way; wish; woman; wordsworth; work; write; years; young cache: 47643.txt plain text: 47643.txt item: #18 of 20 id: 54569 author: Helm, W. H. (William Henry) title: Jane Austen and Her Country-house Comedy date: None words: 48740 flesch: 64 summary: The spirit of Jane Austen abides in the delicious air of this quiet and unspoilt valley, where, when the wind blows strongly from the south-east, the salt of the sea-breeze mingles with the perfumes of the grass and the wood smoke as pleasantly as the Attic wit of {240} Jane Austen mingles with the sweetness of her heroines and the thousand delights of her dialogue. None of her heroines _is_ Jane, but there is much of her also in Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse, and a good deal in Anne Elliot, though she admitted that Anne was too nearly perfect to be altogether after her heart. keywords: anne; author; bennet; books; cassandra; catherine; characters; class; country; day; days; elinor; elizabeth; emma; family; fanny; father; general; girl; good; heroines; house; humour; jane austen; john; lady; letters; life; love; man; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; novels; park; people; place; pride; sense; sir; sister; time; way; woman; work; world; years cache: 54569.txt plain text: 54569.txt item: #19 of 20 id: 6705 author: Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown title: Mrs. Shelley date: None words: 69478 flesch: 64 summary: The mouth, thin and hard, might have caught a passing look, but certainly not what an artist would have wished to portray; while a certain stiffness of pose is not what one would expect in the high-strung, sensitive Mary Shelley. While Mary Shelley was residing in Kentish Town, before she joined her father in Gower Place after the winding up of his affairs, a letter from Godwin to his wife at the sea-side shows that the latter considered he did not need her society as Mrs. Shelley was with him; he explains that he sees her about twice a week, but is feeling lonely every day. keywords: byron; chapter; child; children; claire; day; days; death; england; fact; family; fanny; father; friends; godwin; good; harriet; health; help; hogg; home; house; husband; idea; italy; lady; letter; life; little; london; love; man; marriage; mary shelley; mary wollstonecraft; mind; money; mother; mrs; nature; night; people; place; poet; poor; pounds; return; shelley; son; time; time mary; time shelley; trelawny; visit; way; wife; work; world; writing; years cache: 6705.txt plain text: 6705.txt item: #20 of 20 id: 6854 author: Campbell, Helen title: Anne Bradstreet and Her Time date: None words: 103038 flesch: 64 summary: But even for the Dudleys, among the richest members of the party there was a privation which shows how sharply it must have fared with the poorer portion, and Dudley wrote, nine months after their arrival, that he thought fit to commit to memory our present condition, and what hath befallen us since our arrival here; which I will do shortly, after my usual manner, and must do rudely, having yet no table, nor other room to write in than by the fireside upon my knee, in this sharp winter; to which my family must have leave to resort, though they break good manners, and make me many times forget what I would say, and say what I would not. God doth many times both reward and punish for the same action: as we see in Jehu, he is rewarded with a kingdome to the fourth generation, for takeing veangence on the house of Ahab; and yet a little while (saith God), and I will avenge the blood of Jezevel upon the house of Jehu: he was rewarded for the matter, and yet punished for the manner, which should warn him, that doth any speciall service for God, to fixe his eye on the command, and not on his own ends, lest he meet with Jehu's reward, which will end in punishment. keywords: age; andover; anne; anne bradstreet; bee; beginning; body; book; boston; bradstreet; cause; chapter; children; church; colony; cotton; country; court; day; days; dear; death; doth; dudley; earth; end; england; english; eyes; face; faith; family; father; fire; force; friends; general; god; good; governor; great; ground; hand; hath; heart; hold; home; house; husband; hutchinson; john; king; knowledge; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; mother; nature; new; new england; old; order; people; place; poem; power; present; puritan; reason; record; rest; saw; sense; set; simon; son; soul; spirit; state; sun; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; till; time; town; verse; water; way; wife; winthrop; woman; words; work; world; years; young cache: 6854.txt plain text: 6854.txt