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  The Last of Squire Ennismore -...

  Charlotte Riddell

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  Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, on 30th September 1832, the youngest daughter of James Cowan, a High Sheriff for the County of Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw from Liverpool, England. 
  In the winter of 1855, four years after her father's death, she and her mother moved to London. Sadly, within the year, her mother also passed. 
  In 1857, she married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer.  The marriage was happy by all accounts but produced no children. 
  Her first novel, ‘The Moors and the Fens’, was published in 1858 under the pseudonym of F. G. Trafford, which she used until publishing under the moniker ‘Mrs Riddell’ from 1864. 
  Charlotte was a prolific, respected and popular author. In her literary career she published over 50 novels and short stories. The most notable is perhaps ‘George Geith of Fen Court’ (1864), for which she was paid £800. It was later dramatised in 1883 by Wybert Reeve. 
  From 1867, Charlotte ventured into new territory, becoming the co-proprietor and editor of the well-regarded St. James's Magazine, which had begun publishing 1861. She also edited the magazine ‘Home in the Sixties’, and wrote short stories and tales for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and Routledge's Christmas annuals.  
  Charlotte was a prominent writer of ghost stories; ‘Fairy Water’, ‘The Uninhabited House’, ‘The Haunted River’, ‘The Disappearance of Mr Jeremiah Redworth’ and ‘The Nun's Curse’, all deal with buildings occupied by supernatural phenomena. Charlotte also wrote several short ghost stories, such as ‘The Open Door’ and ‘Nut Bush Farm’, which are regularly anthologised. 
  In 1880 Joseph died.  She now withdrew from society and became a recluse.  From 1886 this was in Upper Halliford, Middlesex.  
  In 1901 Charlotte became the recipient of the first pension, £60 a year, from the Society of Authors. 
  Charlotte Riddell died from cancer in Ashford, Kent, on 24th September 1906.

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  Transcendental Wild Oats - From...

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Louisa May Alcott was born on 29th November 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 
  She is most definitely a writer of her own experiences.  Her father was a transcendentalist, philosopher and educational experimenter who founded, Fruitlands, a utopian community. Although poor, her liberal and progressive parents provided Louisa with much of her education, which was enhanced by many family friends that included Thoreau, Hawthorne and Emerson, a neighbour whose library she was often found reading in.    
  She started writing stories as a way of providing the family with some financial stability. Times were difficult and the effects of poverty were always close at hand.  During the Civil War she went to Washington to be a nurse and became ill with typhoid fever although she continued to write and build her success.  However, the treatment for typhus gave her mercury poisoning which caused further health issues for the rest of her life and eventually contributed to her death.   
  Alcott visited her father on his deathbed in Boston. Two days later on 6th March 1888 she also died resulting in a joint funeral.

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  The Child's Story

  Charles Dickens

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  Everyone begins life's journey as a child. From one of the world's most beloved writers comes this memorable parable of life's transitions. Originally published by Charles Dickens in the mid-1800s, The Child's Story is a timeless account of the journey we all take, from carefree childhood and spontaneous youth, through adulthood and marriage, and into our golden years. Now, almost 150 years after its original publication, acclaimed artist Harvey Chan adds his stirring images to Dickens's classic words, creating a unique and powerful reading experience that's ideal for children of all ages.

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  The Tempest

  E.A. Copen, William Shakespeare,...

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  This haunting drama of vengeance and forgiveness crowns the group of tragicomic romances that Shakespeare composed at the end of his career. Sometimes read as his farewell to the stage, the play contains some of Shakespeare's most lyrical verse. 
  Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother, and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Aided by the spirit Ariel, Prospero uses his magical art to bring his enemies under his control.  
  Prospero is played by Bob Peck, Ariel by Adrian Lester, Jennifer Ehle is Miranda, Simon Russell Beale is Antonio, Jamie Glover is Ferdinand, and Richard McCabe plays Caliban.

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  Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka

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  Metamorphosis is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect, subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered.

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  The Dead Hand - A Masterpiece of...

  George Eliot

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  A marriage built on intellectual ideals becomes a prison of expectation in this devastatingly poignant installment of George Eliot’s masterwork. 
  In Middlemarch Book 5: The Dead Hand, the fragile threads holding the town's interwoven lives together are beginning to snap. Young Dr. Lydgate fights for medical reform against a tide of bitter provincial prejudice, while Will Ladislaw finds himself swept up in the fervors of political rebellion—and a forbidden, simmering passion. 
  But the true storm is brewing within the quiet walls of Lowick. The ailing Reverend Edward Casaubon, consumed by jealousy and the bitter realization of his own life's failure, prepares to exert his ultimate control over his young wife, Dorothea. When he asks for a blind promise that will bind her long after he is gone, Dorothea is plunged into an agonizing crisis of conscience. Will she sacrifice her own future to soothe a dying man's ego, or will the crushing weight of The Dead Hand break her spirit entirely? 
  Immerse yourself in a world of high society whispers, tragic sacrifices, and the indomitable human yearning for freedom. This is classic literature at its most piercing and psychologically profound.

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