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  Elinor Mordaunt

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  Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.  
  Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds.  
  She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. 
  In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later.   
  She lived in Melbourne for about eight years.  To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. 
  Her first book, ‘The Garden of Contentment’, was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. 
  She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves.  
  On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage ‘ended in tragedy.’ 
  Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70.

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  A Christmas Carol

  Charles Dickens

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  A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. These spirits show him the error of his ways and inspire him to embrace the spirit of Christmas and become a kinder, more generous person.Charles Dickens was a prolific English writer and social critic of the Victorian era. He is known for his vivid characters, detailed descriptions, and his focus on social injustices. A Christmas Carol is just one of his many celebrated works.

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  The Old English Baron

  Clara Reeve

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  The Old English Baron opens with Sir Phillip Harclay returning to England after years of foreign service to find his friend Arthur Lord Lovel dead, and the family castle sold to Baron Fitz-Owen. Among the baron's children, Harclay takes notice of the adopted son Edmund, a peasant from the nearby village. The knight feels an immediate connection with the child and offers to adopt him as his own. From there, the tale continues with a mix of adventure, mystery, romance, and the supernatural, telling of the tragic fate of the Lovel family. The Old English Baron is an influential early Gothic novel. It was first published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue , and a year later was republished under its current title and Reeve's name. Written as an offspring of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto , the novel follows a similar plot. It retains some of the ghostly tropes that define the genre, but avoids the more fantastical elements of its spiritual predecessor, to achieve Reeve's stated goal of "uniting the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient romance and modern novel." Clara Reeve (died 1807) was a celebrated writer of the Romantic era. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. As a work of classic literary fiction, The Old English Baron exemplifies the narrative craft and social insight that defined great storytelling of its era. Literary fiction of this period was characterized by careful attention to character psychology, social milieu, and the moral questions that animated public discourse.

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  What was it?

  Fitz-James O'Brien

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  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube. 
  Title: What Was It? 
  Series Name: Timeless Terrors 
  Series Entry: 167 
  Author: Fitz-James O'Brien 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1859 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Description: 
  First published in 1859, What Was It? by the Irish author Fitz-James O'Brien is widely regarded as one of the earliest invisible monster stories ever written. 
  When the residents of a New York boarding house encounter an unseen intruder, they find themselves confronting something that can be touched, restrained, and feared—but never seen. Blending suspense, mystery, and the supernatural, O'Brien creates a tale that still feels remarkably modern more than 160 years after its publication. 
  A pioneering work of weird fiction, What Was It? would go on to influence later classics such as The Horla by Guy de Maupassant and The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells. It remains one of the great overlooked gems of nineteenth-century horror. 
  This timeless classic is narrated by horror author Jonathan Dunne. 
  🎬 Experience the atmospheric visual edition of this tale by searching "Jonathan Dunne Horror" on YouTube

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  The Beetle Hunter

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer terror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The Beetle-Hunter," a beginning doctor is employed on a strange errand to a coleopterist.

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  Jack and Jill

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends who live next door to each other. They are always seen together, so Janey gets the nickname of Jill, to mimic the old rhyme. The two do go up a hill one winter day— and then suffer a terrible accident. Seriously injured in a sledding accident, they recover from their physical injuries, while learning life lessons along with their many friends. They are helped along their journey to recovery by various activities created by their mothers.

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