"The Englishwoman in Russia" is a captivating travel narrative that offers a unique perspective on Russian society through the eyes of a British woman. The author, a lady of keen observation, shares her experiences and encounters as she navigates the complexities of Russian culture, customs, and daily life. Her vivid descriptions and insightful commentary provide readers with a rich understanding of the contrasts between English and Russian ways of life, making it an engaging read for thos...

In "My Experiences in Australia," A Lady offers an insightful and engaging account of her travels and experiences in the vast and vibrant continent of Australia. Written in a reflective narrative style, the book intertwines personal anecdotes with rich cultural observations, effectively capturing the essence of 19th-century Australian society. Her eloquent prose not only provides a vivid portrayal of the landscapes, flora, and fauna, but also engages with the social dynamics and colonial e...

A Duchess, two Countesses, and their families are forced to stop at the Red Lion Inn in Meryton on their way home to one of their estates due to two of the ladies beginning active labor.The same day, Fanny Bennet, with Thomas Bennet away in London, also goes into labor with her second child. When she calls for the midwife and Mr. Jones, she is informed they are both at the inn attending two ladies. Fanny asks her mother-in-law, Beth Bennet, to remain home after the...

This is a journal of my time with Cancer. Your's will be different but I hope you will find some support and hope through my words. There is laughter and tears, tips and tricks to help your journey.

PREFACE.Without troubling the reader with any account of a sea voyage from England to Archangel, as all travels on the “vasty deep” present pretty much the same features which have been so frequently and so well described by others, I will only observe that circumstances induced me to reside for more than ten years in Russia, which I have only recently quitted.The following pages contain a simple account of the manners, customs, and genre de vie chez eux of...

Politics got you down and out? Sick and tired and sad and mad? Of course you are. You're not alone. Want a worthy rescue remedy? Of course you do. Here, at last, care of bigly secret guru Donny, are a mosaic gaggle of Psy-Op Antivenin Hacks that really work, strategically camouflaged as sheer piffle (to keep them safely Underground; hidden so not forbidden.) If you celebrate the savage humor of Rick Wilson, best-selling author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, you'll get your mental mojo b...

Published in 1841 in Philadelphia, the Total Abstinence Cookery is an appealing example of a mid-19th century temperance cookbook. During this period of growth in the American middle class, the importance of abstinence from alcohol emerged from the sober, moral beliefs of the new social class. Several cookbooks such as Total Abstinence Cookery were published as part of the movement. As stated in the preface by the author, merely known as "A Lady," "[t]he error of mixing i...

Rather than protect their daughter like any good parent should, first Fanny and then Thomas Bennet push their sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth into a marriage with a much older man who happens to be a duke.Fanny is seduced by the fact he is a duke, even if he is not interested in Jane, something she cannot believe at first, and his willingness to dower her remaining four daughters. For Bennet, when the Duke offers to break the entail on Longbourn after a certain...

Elizabeth finds she cannot reconcile herself to Charlotte aligning herself with a man such as William Collins, so she refuses the invitation to Hunsford.Instead, she goes on holiday to Brighton with the Gardiners. The family takes a summer holiday each year, and either Elizabeth or Jane joins them. Due to her broken heart, Jane, whose turn it was, demurs and asks Lizzy to go in her stead.One day, Elizabeth is shopping near the Pavilion with her Aunt Maddie,...

What is one to do when a father arranges a marriage for them, one they find abhorrent, and will not listen to their opinions or desires?Felicity is the daughter of Henry and Beth Bennet, and for his own reasons, her father decides to arrange a marriage for his daughter, who is seventeen, to the son of Augustus Collins, Clem. His reasoning is that he is not confident his son Thomas will ever marry, and if he does, he doubts the son's ability to produce a son. Given ...

This is a story of friendship that defies all odds and survives and flourishes regardless of the impediments that arise.The friendship is born out of an almost tragedy and extreme bravery by one Elizabeth Bennet. In saving the lives of those in peril, she thwarts the designs of one of the villains of this tale and makes an enemy of the person.As in canon, our Anne is sickly. In this variation, it is because she had suffered a bad case of childhood scarlet f...

Elizabeth Bennet has never been happier: she is married—finally!—to her true love, Mr. Darcy.But when Elizabeth's youngest sister Lydia reveals scandalous details about what her own husband, Mr. Wickham, expects in bed, Elizabeth begins to fear her wedding night.She decides she will postpone any further intimacies. After all, isn't lively conversation as satisfying as anything else between a husband and wife?Not according to her husband! Will Fitzwilliam Darcy be ab...