Category Archives: Family Life

Veronica

Author(s): Johanna Spyri Published in 1886, this novel encompasses a small community wherein Veronica, having...

What Katy Did at School (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): Susan Coolidge Following Katy’s recovery in What Katy Did, Katy and Clover go to...

Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of...

Virginia

Author(s): Ellen Glasgow Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first...

What Katy Did (Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): Susan Coolidge Katy Carr always gets in trouble for everything. When her mother died,...

The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby

Author(s): Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler This is a sequel to “Concerning Isabel Carnaby”. Isabel and Paul...

The Ship of Stars

Author(s): Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch What is childhood? For Taffy, the only son of a...

The Story Of A Needle

Author(s): Charlotte Maria Tucker A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about...

The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors, Version 2

Author(s): Various An unusual concept,with each of the twelve chapters written by a different author....

The Misses Mallett

Author(s): E. H. Young The arrival of the eligible Francis Sales disturbs the calm existence...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): Fergus Hume Who killed the man in the hansom cab? — Who is Sal...

The Kellys and the O’Kellys

Author(s): Anthony Trollope This is the second of Trollope’s four Irish novels: A complicated, funny...

The Man On The Other Side

Author(s): Ada Barnett Ruth never expected to have a house of her own. Raised in...

The Mother

Author(s): Pearl Buck Life is difficult for The Mother, with a household of husband and...

The Pussycat Princess

Author(s): Edward Anthony This pussycat is out to have some adventurous fun in this enjoyable...

The Romance of a Shop

Author(s): Amy Levy Praised by Oscar Wilde amongst other contemporaries, Amy Levy’s first novel tells...

The Portion of Labor

Author(s): Mary E. Wilkins Freeman This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter...

The Inside of the Cup

Author(s): Winston Churchill John Hodder, stepping into the large shoes of his predecessor, is the...

The Biography of a Prairie Girl

Author(s): Eleanor Gates This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies...

The Homesteader

Author(s): Oscar Micheaux The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader...

The Heel of Achilles

Author(s): E. M. Delafield After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl,...

The Confessions of a Daddy

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the...

The Hope of Happiness

Author(s): Meredith Nicholson A hot and sultry day in the mid-west finds Bruce Storrs trying...

Stories of Successful Marriages

Author(s): Walter Besant A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of...

Tante

Author(s): Anne Douglas Sedgwick It is a common trend, up until this very day, to...

Santa Claus’s Partner

Author(s): Thomas Nelson Page Livingstone has reached a pinnacle in his life. He is finally...

Stories of Troubled Marriages

Author(s): Ella D’Arcy Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work....

Phoebe, Junior

Author(s): Margaret O. Oliphant Social status and snobbery dominated Victorian English society, but religion and...

Old Christmas

Author(s): Washington Irving A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas....

Rainbow Valley

Author(s): Lucy Maud Montgomery Rainbow Valley, the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables...