Through a disguised approach, Rowson paints the real world where the women have to suffer in each and every field. From relationships to the outside world, being daughters and being mothers, she gives voice to the under-privileged and insecure woman. Following the life of protagonist she narrates the many traps she escapes, and her efforts for survival. Thought-provoking!

A story of seduction, betrayal and retribution. It is a sentimental, moralistic novel of Eighteenth century that leaves the protagonist, Charlotte, in the midst of a cunning and unforgiving world. The quest of love leaves her in America; lonely and away from home. With moral teachings and guidelines for women, the novel instantly captivates.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must be in my own way.When the Dashwood family are forced into more modest circumstances, sisters Marianne and Elinor also find themselves entangled in matters of the heart. Passionate and spirited, young Marianne falls for the charming but unreliable Mr Willoughby. Elinor, by contrast rational and sensible, ...

With Austen for Beginners A Memoir of Jane Austen, illustrations, Free Audiobook LinksThis edition of Sense and Sensibility includes the origin version colored illustrations by C. E. Brock. and HUGH THOMSON Beautiful colored pictures that follow the story line will make this story more enjoyable to read.After the death of their father, the Dashwood sisters along with their mother gets evicted from their lavish London home by their elder half-brother and his greedy wife. The...

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's version of a Cinderella story. Fanny Price is a poor relation living with her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, and their children. Edmund, the second son, is the only one who treats her with kindness and they develop a strong bond, until the dashing Henry Crawford and his lovely sister Mary come to visit. The Crawfords are outwardly charming, but their indifferent upbringing leaves them unable to distinguish right from wrong, and Fanny must ...

First published in 1996, this sequel to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, written as an exchange of letters, Elinor and Marianne is the correspondence between the married Dashwood sisters – Mrs Brandon and Mrs Edward Ferrars. Passion, in the shape of the charming seducer Willoughby, makes an appearance, together with the perennial themes of money and social embarrassment.

When she is 10 years old, Fanny Price is sent from her poor and large family to Mansfield Park, where she is to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Though she grows up in the same home as her four older cousins, she is often treated as a poor and ignorant relation, similar to a servant, and is not afforded the same advances into society as her more privileged relatives.But there is one among her relations who treats her as an equal. Edmund is the s...

Juvenilia Volume I was written by Jane Austen and first published in 1790. Perhaps as early as 1787, Jane Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793.The 1st volume of Juvenilia includes: * Frederic & Elfrida * Jack & Alice * Edgar & Emma * Henry and Eliza * The Adventu...

**Two classics by one of early America's most successful women writersA Penguin Classic**First published in 1794, Charlotte Temple was the biggest bestseller of American literary history until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, half a century later. The story of a young English girl who elopes to America, there only to be cruelly abandoned, Charlotte Temple was repeatedly dramatized during the nineteenth century and provided inspiration fo...

The novel tells the story of Fanny Price starting when her overburdened family sends her at age 10 to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle, through to her marriage. The critical reception from the late 20th century onward marks Mansfield Park as Austen's most controversial novel as it briefly mentions the British slave trade and touches upon the issue of Sir Thomas owning a plantation in the West Indies, with others not finding this trip to Antigua as other than a plot devic...

In "The Looking-Glass for the Mind; or, Intellectual Mirror," M. Berquin offers a profound exploration into the moral and intellectual development of children, rendered through a collection of stories that illuminate virtues such as honesty, empathy, and perseverance. Adopting a didactic literary style, Berquin crafts each tale with a blend of simplicity and sophistication, inviting young readers to reflect on the complexities of human nature. The book stands as an emblematic work of the E...

Popular novel, first published in 1853.