Thousands of Noras: Short Plays by Women, 1875-1920 provides an international collection of dramatic works written by women that draw attention to the power and range of voices of several generations of women writers. Sketches, monologues, duologues and plays from the United States, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada are represented. It includes works by playwrights considered marginal, as well as lesser-known works by established writers such as Elizab...

This book offers a comprehensive look at the lives of five successful American women playwrights from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works have been largely overlooked and remain underexplored. It broadens our understanding of the opportunities available to female professional writers during this period, specifically within the realm of theater. Engle's work stands out due to her extensive use of primary sources, which enriches her analysis. As noted by Susan Croft, former S...

"A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens Household Words magazine. Wilkie wrote the introduction and collaborated with Dickens on the second story and ending, while Gaskell and Proctor wrote the remainder.

This volume collects 21 long-lost stories by the author of Anne of Green Gables written across 40 years—with a forward by the author's granddaughter.Although best known for creating the spirited Anne Shirley, L. M. Montgomery had a thriving writing career that included several novels and more than five hundred poems and short stories. After Many Years brings together rare pieces originally published between 1900 and 1939 that haven't been in print...

The Tales of Avonlea - Complete Collection gathers Montgomery's beloved Prince Edward Island fiction into a richly textured panorama of village life, childhood imagination, courtship, moral testing, and quiet emotional revelation. Across the novels and short stories, her prose combines pastoral lyricism, sharp social observation, and a gift for comic dialogue, placing Avonlea within the tradition of regional realism while preserving the romance and wonder that made Anne Shirley iconic. Luc...

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born on October 31, 1852. She began to write whilst still a teenager, primarily children’s stories and verse and quickly became successful. Whilst working as a secretary to the noted author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, her style of poetry and novels began to take on the characteristics of the local New England region. When her interest turned to the supernatural the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supern...

Mary Robson is a young Yorkshire woman, married to her solid, unromantic cousin, John. Together they battle to preserve Mary's neglected inheritance: their beloved farm, Anderby Wold. This labour of love - and the benevolent tyranny of traditional Yorkshire ways - has made Mary old before her time.Then into her purposeful life comes David Rossitur. Young, red-haired, charming, eloquent: how can she help but love him? But David is from a different England - radical and committed to ...

In Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poetThe war is over and blackouts are a thing of the past, except in the village of Melchester, where the local council has refused to sully its streets with unsightly lamps. The night is pitch black, but hardly quiet. Young lovers are rendezvousing, a police constable is helping himself to a few of his neighbor's partridges, and a poet is going to visit his beloved, a new verse on his lips. She will n...

At the height of World War II, Thomas Littlejohn investigates a factory boss's murderOnce, Henry Worth's sprawling factory was filled with looms and textile workers, but since the onset of World War II, the space has been given over entirely to military production. Worth is walking the grounds late one night when he smells gas coming from an unused shed. When he enters to investigate, the door slams and locks behind him. He is dead in minutes.Detective-Inspec...