Family & Relationships
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Bealby
Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the g…
Petticoat Government
The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Little Colonel
The Little Kentucky "Colonel," so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love a…
Queen Hildegarde
City gal Hildegarde gets sent to live on a farm and is not happy about it. At first, she’s furious with her parents for 'abandoning' her and…
The Mother and the Child
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …
The Little Colonel's Holidays
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking &quo…
The Blue Aunt
This is a very cute children's book. Mr. West's half-sister Matilda is orphaned and she comes staying with the family for a while. It looks …
The Two Brothers
“The Two Brothers” (1842) is part of Balzac’s great life work, the novel series known as “The Human Comedy.” Balzac’s French title was “La R…
The Story Of A Needle
A story told, through the viewpoint of a sewing needle, about family life and siblings. The narration from the needle tells how he was made …
Fairy Prince and Other Stories
A charming family story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl. “You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christ…
Molly Brown's Senior Days
This novel is the fourth in a series of eight books written about Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky during her education at Wellington College in…
Little Sunbeam
Peggy, age eight, blind from birth, is the Little Sunbeam in her family. Following a serious accident in London, she is sent to spend time …
The Homesteader
The Homesteader is a semi-autobiographic novel about Jean Baptiste, an African-American homesteader in the Dakotas. He meets Agnes who he fa…
Women, Children, Love and Marriage
This book contains a number of essays about various subjects pertaining to women, children love and marriage - Summary by ashleighjane
Phoebe, Junior
Social status and snobbery dominated Victorian English society, but religion and politics were interfering with the status quo as Phoebe Bee…
Hope Farm Notes
“Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. . . . From t…
Mary Louise
Mary Louise is a girl who lives with her mother and grandfather. Ever since she was small, every little while they have had to pack up and m…
The Little Colonel's House Party
Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her…
Miss Lochinvar
At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to l…