Henry Carter Hull

Leonora centers on the newly married Leonora and her decision to bring back to England a woman who had been exiled to France. The woman, Olivia, is known as a "coquette," and her controversial behavior with regard to her marriage had driven her to France, where she cultivated an aristocratic, "French" sensibility that exists apart from conventional morality.

The novel is written in an epistolary style. (Source:

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Susannah Moodie (born Strickland; 1803– 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in mid-19th century Canada, a sparsely-populated British colony at the time. Moodie also wrote children's books, poetry, and memoirs in addition to novels. Her writing inspired well-known, fellow Canadian writers Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. 'Flora Lyndsay' tells the story of a young wife and mother who emigrates,...

Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward. Mary Augusta Arnold was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, into a prominent intellectual family of writers and educationalists. She worked to improve education for the poor setting up a Settlement in London and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. On 6 April 1872, not yet 21 years old,

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Other books written by Katharine Holland Brown and published by Charles Scribner's Sons include: THE HALLOWELL PARTNERSHIP. 12mo net, $1.00 THE MESSENGER. 16mo net, .50 PHILIPPA AT HALCYON. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50

Scottish novelist Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant wrote more than 120 works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories, and volumes of literary criticism. The Last of the Mortimers is a work of domestic fiction.

There was hardly a ripple on the sultry air as Marion Marlowe walked slowly along the dusty country road picking a daisy here and there and linking them together in an artistic manner. When the chain was finished she swung it lightly in her hand, notwithstanding the fact that each link held one of her heart secrets interwoven in the form of a wish, as she fashioned the frail necklace. She paused for a moment upon the brow of the steep hill behind...

The American Diary of a Japanese Girl is the first English-language novel published in the United States by a Japanese writer. Acquired for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Monthly Magazine by editor Ellery Sedgwick in 1901, it appeared in two excerpted instalments in November and December of that year with illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. In 1902, it was published, in book form by the New York firm of Frederick A. Stokes. Marketed as the authentic diary...