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  Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen

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  "Mansfield Park" is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1814. It centers on Fanny Price, a young woman from a poor family who is sent to live with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Unlike other Austen heroines, Fanny is shy and reserved, and she struggles with the ethical and social dilemmas presented to her. As she navigates love, betrayal, and moral complexity within the confines of upper-class society, Fanny grows into her own person. The novel delves into themes of social class, morality, and the complexities of human relationships.

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  Cruise in an Opium Clipper

  Lindsay Anderson

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  Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson.  Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan to foreigners in 1858, serving as a dispatch boat between Nagasaki and Shanghai, and was one of the first vessels to open up a trade with Formosa….  The Eamont was sent on some very dangerous trips. She was one of the first vessels to open up a trade with Formosa, and made the first survey of the port of Taku, which she entered by bumping over the reef in spite of a tremendous surf beating upon it at the time, a most daring performance. And in her efforts to trade with the Formosans she had to withstand the attack of hundreds of armed natives right on top of a typhoon, which she succeeded in riding out on her moorings. But the captain of the Eamont was a famous fighting man, as the Chinese pirates knew to their cost….  The Eamont was also employed in the negotiations for the first commercial treaty with Japan.  (See Wikipedia article on Eamont (schooner)) - Summary by wikipedia and david wales

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  The Whitechapel Girl

  Gilda O'Neill

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    In this enthralling Victorian drama, a young woman tries to escape poverty in London’s East End as Jack the Ripper stalks the streets. Ettie Wilkins must get out of Whitechapel. As her mother sinks deeper into alcoholism, the volatile lodger sharing their slum turns his attentions to Ettie.  So when debonair Professor Jacob Protsky picks Ettie out of the crowd, she is determined to seize her chance. Despite a chorus of warnings, Ettie goes to live with Protsky in Bow to assist him with his magic tricks.  But when Ettie befriends the mysterious Celia Tressing, she soon finds herself increasingly worried by events in Whitechapel. A series of gruesome murders and whispers of Jack the Ripper have shaken even that resilient community . . . Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale.

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  Lamentations - A Novel of Women...

  Carol Kammen

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  Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen provides an interpretation of the women's thoughts and feelings as events played out in and around the wagons heading west.In this novel the men are in the background—and we hear the women ponder the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native Americans they encounter, and their changing roles. Lamentations is about women's reality as wives or unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as explorers of the land.Kammen gives voice to these women as they consider a strange new land and the people who inhabit it, mulling over what they, as women of their time, could not say aloud. They face the difficulties of the road, the slow trust that builds between some of them, and the oddities of the men with whom they travel. These women move from silent witnesses within a constrained gender sphere to articulate observers of a complicated world they ultimately helped to shape.

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  Inhabitant of Carcosa An

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Revealed in this mysterious tale is no less than the transition of the ages. Our recently wakened narrator, suddenly renewed and revitalized, finds himself moving beyond the ruins of a lost world and on to the very cusp of a yet unidentified dawning new age. Bierce at his prophetic best.

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  A Well-Trained Lady

  Jess Heileman

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  #### Everything has changed. Except her heart. Arabella Godwin is an Incomparable in London Society—elegant, wealthy, and meticulously trained. Yet, she has nothing to show for her efforts aside from her pretentious reputation and a collection of disappointed suitors. When her plan to secure a promising offer of marriage is temporarily delayed, she must bide her time in the company of an estranged childhood friend—the much-too-endearing, but regrettably untitled, Augustus Brundage. As the friends’ tattered relationship returns to familiarity, Arabella must prevent herself from fully regressing into the carefree, impressionable young lady who once foolishly trusted Augustus with her heart. To make the same mistake again would ruin everything she has worked for—and certainly more. But can a heart be so easily trained? ##### **Heat Level:Mild/Sweet

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