A Regency historical novel about a vicar’s daughter who is sent off to London to make her debut, with specific instructions to make a wealthy match and thereby help her debt-ridden family. 1982. Continue reading
A Regency historical novel about a vicar’s daughter who is sent off to London to make her debut, with specific instructions to make a wealthy match and thereby help her debt-ridden family. 1982. Continue reading
A novel about a man who wakes up one day in 1919 and finds he can’t remember anything about the last three years of his life. 1941. Continue reading
A novel about a man who retires from the military and returns home to Scotland, where the wartime death of his best friend and neighbor is still strongly felt. 1959. Continue reading
A Regency historical novel about a young woman who sets out to restore her family’s crumbling coastal estate, and in the process must throw her lot in with smugglers. 1958. Continue reading
A novel about a man who rents a house for the season and keeps having problems with the servants, especially the particularly pretty cook. 1916.Continue reading
A historical saga about an Englishman who buys an estate and finds fulfillment in looking after the land and its tenants during the first half of the 20th century. 1966. Continue reading
A novel about an aging couple who return to their country estate in Ireland, and the American niece who comes to spend the summer with them. 1952. Continue reading
A gothic historical novel about a Yankee governess who goes to work on a decaying plantation during the early Reconstruction period. 1947. Continue reading →
A comedic novel about a group of genteel London folk and their various hopes and grievances when it comes to love. 1908. Continue reading →
A novel about a young woman who, after being jilted at the altar, goes to work at an art institute in a Lincolnshire industrial town, where she meets an eclectic group of people and begins to build a new life for herself. 1951. Continue reading→
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou
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Begun in 2010, this blog offers analysis and reflection by Susan Bailey on the life, works and legacy of Louisa May Alcott and her family. Susan is an active member and supporter of the Louisa May Alcott Society, the Fruitlands Museum and Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House.
"She had read novels while other people perused the Sunday papers" - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Reviews of musty, dusty treasures
The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
"Vivre le livre!"
journeying through books and foreign lands
Book reviews by someone who loves books ...
“The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison.” ― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
FOR DISCERNING READERS
Exploring vintage books, papers and illustrations
Unearthing yesterday's literary gems
A collective of bibliophiles talking about books. Book Fox (vulpes libris): small bibliovorous mammal of overactive imagination and uncommonly large bookshop expenses. Habitat: anywhere the rustle of pages can be heard.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library" - Jorge Luis Borges
live mines and duds: the reading life