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  • The Fenwick Letters: A Transnational Feminist Life Reconstructed, Volume I

    1797-1821

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Series Book 1 - EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    The first of a two-volume edition of The Fenwick Letters covers 1797 to 1821, a period that marked the initial phase of Eliza Fenwick’s transnational odyssey, as she transformed from promising author to conservative schoolmistress and savvy businesswoman; from traveling in radical circles in London to establishing herself in colonial slave-dependent Bridgetown, Barbados; and from wife of radical ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Secresy

    Or, Ruin on the Rock

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Fans of Jane Austen's work will love this gripping novel from Eliza Fenwick, an early feminist thinker who was friends with Mary Shelley and several other important writers of the era. Secresy follows the unusual friendship between Caroline Ashburn and Sibella Valmont, both of whom have been negatively impacted by the constraints society places on women. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Secresy - Second Edition

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Secresy was Eliza Fenwick’s only work for adults—a fact that may help to explain why this extraordinary novel has been so thoroughly overlooked. On one level this is a book that presents fascinating challenges to traditional structures of class and gender. Whereas Mr. Valmont, the villain of the piece, rejects merely the surface forms of fashionable society, the story of his niece Sibella and her ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Bad Family

    And Other Stories

    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Part of a series for younger readers called The Dumpy Books, this collection of short stories offers a fascinating glimpse into the manners and mores of children and families at the dawn of the twentieth century. Fans of mock-didactic fiction such as Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events will feel right at home. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Eliza Fenwick ...
    Narrated by Alicia Tibbetts, Vera Price, Cherry Esparza, Cassie Garnick ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 38 min

    This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few secrets. Yet secrets cannot remain hidden for ever, and everything has a price. This is both a social novel and a gothic novel. A true page turner with all the elements of a good 18th ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

    by Martin Levy ...
    In eighteenth-century England the aristocracy dominated the imagination, their exploits -- and misdeeds -- discussed, debated, and gossiped about in the salons and parlors of London. Now author Martin Levy vividly re-creates one of the most shocking and scandalous events of the period, in a riveting true tale of passion, obsession, murder, and courtroom drama.On a spring evening in the year 1779, ... Read more

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  • The Tailor of Gloucester, Illustrated

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    Classic children's picture book, with the 27 original color illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life." ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Is Missing

    One of the Eighteenth Century's Greatest Mysteries—Solved!

    by Lillian de la Torre ...
    The true story of the eighteenth-century English maidservant at the center of a fascinating criminal mystery.On New Year's Day, 1753, Elizabeth Canning disappeared. An eighteen-year-old girl, she was unremarkable in every respect, from her appearance to her disposition, but she was about to become the most famous person in London. When she reappeared one month later, starving and ill, she claimed ... Read more

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  • Vindication

    A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

    by Lyndall Gordon ...
    "Gordon relates Wollstonecraft's story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified . . . Wonderful, and deeply sobering." — New York Times Book ReviewThe founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman in Europe and America in her time. Yet her reputation over the years has suffered—until now. Acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon ... Read more

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  • Joseph Andrews and Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    Joseph Andrews, Henry Fielding's first full-length novel, depicts the many colourful and often hilarious adventures of a comically chaste servant. After being sacked for spurning the lascivious Lady Booby, Joseph takes to the road, accompanied by his beloved Fanny Goodwill, a much-put-upon foundling girl, and Parson Adams, a man often duped and humiliated, but still a model of Christian charity. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Teenage Writings

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an indiscriminate and precocious reader, devouring pulp fiction and classic literature alike; what she read, she ... Read more

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  • Joseph Andrews and Shamela

    by Henry Fielding ...
    The first novel of English magistrate Henry Fielding, "Joseph Andrews" was written in 1742 as a complete extension of the author's pamphlet "Shamela." The latter contains an impressively coarse parody of "Pamela," the Samuel Richardson novel that rewards a servant girl with marriage for protecting her virtue. Shamela, however, utilizes a coy and artificial modesty to procure for herself a husband ... Read more

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