Emmeline
10 best books like Emmeline (Charlotte Turner Smith): Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington, Gideon the Ninth, Cranford, Richard III, The Word for World is Forest, The Golden Ass, Cecilia, The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize, The Scottish Chiefs, Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
| Author | Patricia Miller |
| ISBN | 0374252661 |
The woman--and her illicit affair--that rocked Victorian America
When Madeline Pollard was a teenager, she began an extended affair with the Kentucky Congressman William Breckinridge, one of the most influential men in America. Breckinridge was married, and he once declared women's...
| Author | Tamsyn Muir |
| ISBN | 1250313198 |
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0141439882 |
'It is very pleasant dining with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0192839934 |
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the...
The Word for World is Forest
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
| Author | Fanny Burney |
| ISBN | 0192839098 |
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity, and social analysis. Controversial in...
The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman's Prize
| Author | John Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0719053676 |
This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century. A unique and essential companion to the numerous textbook editions of Shakespeare's...
I learned about The Scottish Chiefs from the same person from whom I learned about many old-fashioned books: Louisa May Alcott, in her book A Garland for Girls. One of the stories contained therein is called Pansies, and in it some teenaged girls and Mrs Warburton, the elderly lady of the house the girls...
| Author | Washington Irving |
| ISBN | 0140367713 |
The legendary enchantment of Rip Van Winkle in the Kaatskill Mountains; the gruesome end of Ichabod Crane, who met the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow; the Spectre Bridegroom who turned out to be happily substantial; the pride of an English village and the come-uppance of the over-zealous Mountjoy...
| Author | Todd McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 0345491149 |
In Dragon's Kin, bestselling author Anne McCaffrey did the unthinkable: for the first time ever, she invited another writer to join her in the skies of her most famous fictional creation. That writer was her son, Todd McCaffrey. Together, they penned a triumphant new chapter in the annals of the extraordinarily...
Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea
| Author | L.M. Montgomery |
| ISBN | 0553285890 |
With Rea Wilmshurst's compilation of sixteen of L.M. Montgomery sea, lake and ocean themed short stories (actually, more like fifteen short stories and one considerably longer novella), there are indeed some very much deliciously descriptive, esoteric inclusions in Along the Shore: Tales by the...
