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1) Shirley

Author

Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855

Series

The works of Charlotte Bronte; v.2

Language

English

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Shirley is a woman of independent means: her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. The novel is set at a time of social and political ferment, featuring class disenfranchisement and the divisive effects of the Napoleonic Wars.

2) Love with the proper husband / by: Victoria Alexander

Author

Alexander, Victoria

Series

Effingtons

Publisher

Avon Books

Pub. Date

c.2003

Language

English

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Distressed over the current widespread disinterest inmatrimony among their eminently marriageable offspring, the formidable matriarchs of the ton have taken matters into their own meddling hands with the formation of The Ladies' Society for the Betterment of the Future of Britain. Their first challenge: the Earl of Pennington. Miss Gwendolyn Townsend has seen her late father's estate go to a distant cousin she can't abide... leaving her well-educated,...

3) The mayor of Casterbridge

Author

Hardy, Thomas

Series

World's classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 22

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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"The story opens when an unemployed farmhand, Michael Henchard, sells his wife, Susan, and daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, while in a drunken stupor at a fair, for five guineas to a sailor called Newson. On sobering up the following day, Henchard is filled with remorse, swears a twenty year abstinence from alcohol and begins a search for his family. Eighteen years later the reformed Henchard has become the mayor of Casterbridge, but his past is set to...

4) The secrets of Gaslight Lane

Author

Kasasian, M. R. C

Series

Gower Street detectives volume 4

Publisher

Pegasus Books

Pub. Date

2017

Language

English

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London, 1883. All is quiet at 125 Gower Street. Private detective Sidney Grice is studying up on the anatomical structure of human hair whilst his ward, March Middleton, sneaks upstairs for her eighth secret cigarette of the day. The household is, perhaps, too quiet. So, when a beautiful young woman turns up at the door, imploring London's foremost private detective to solve the mystery of her father's murder, Grice can barely disguise his glee. Mr....