title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Silas Marner | Eliot, George, 1819-1880 | en | | | | England -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Weavers -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Adopted children -- Fiction; Foundlings -- Fiction | 1996-06-01 |
Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | en | | The Birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's Daughter -- Mrs. Bullfrog -- The Celestial Railroad -- The Procession of Life -- Feathertop: A Moralized Legend -- Egotism; or, The Bosom Serpent -- Drowne's Wooden Image -- Roger Malvin's Burial -- The Artist of the Beautiful | | Short stories; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 1996-04-01 |
The Story of a Pioneer | | en | | | | Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919; Women -- Suffrage -- United States; Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography; Women's rights -- United States | 1995-11-01 |
Plantation Sketches | Devereux, Margaret | en | | Letter to my grandchildren -- Plantation life -- Going to the plantation -- My own early home -- Two Bob Whites -- Little Dave -- The hog-feeder's day -- The junior reserve -- Mammy -- War reminiscences. | Winslow, Arthur, 1860- [Editor] | Plantation life; North Carolina -- Social life and customs | 2007-09-19 |
Dombey and Son | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Problem families -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Businesspeople -- Fiction | 1997-02-01 |
The Professor | Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 | en | | | | Brussels (Belgium) -- Fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; British -- Belgium -- Fiction; Women teachers -- Fiction; Love stories; Belgium -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 1997-08-01 |
John Ingerfield and Other Stories | Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927 | en | | To the Gentle Reader -- In remembrance of John Ingerfield, and of Anne, his wife --The woman of the soeter -- Variety patter --Silhouettes -- The lease of the Cross Keys | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Short stories | 2001-02-01 |
Editorial Wild Oats | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | My first literary venture -- Journalism in Tennessee -- Nicodemus Dodge, printer -- Mr. Bloke's item -- How I edited an agricultural paper -- The killing of Julius Caesar "localized". | | Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2006-10-06 |
That Lass O' Lowrie's
1877 | Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 | en | | | | Friendship -- Fiction; Coal miners -- Fiction; Lancashire (England) -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-06-08 |
Love and Freindship [sic] | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 | en | | Love and Freindship -- Lesley Castle -- The History of England -- Collection of Letters -- Scraps. | | Essays; England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction | 1998-02-01 |
David Copperfield | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Stepfathers -- Fiction; Child labor -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Autobiographical fiction; Bildungsromans | 1996-12-01 |
A Young Man in a Hurry
and Other Short Stories | Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William), 1865-1933 | en | | A young man in a hurry -- A pilgrim -- The shining band -- One man in a million -- The fire-warden -- The market-hunter -- The path-master -- In Nauvoo -- Marlitt's shoes -- Pasque Florida. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction | 2008-12-01 |
A Little Bush Maid | Bruce, Mary Grant, 1878-1958 | en | | | | Country life -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction; Adventure stories, Australian; Australia -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction | 2005-08-01 |
Penelope's Progress
Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland | Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923 | en | | | | Americans -- Scotland -- Fiction; Scotland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2009-05-19 |
From Jungle to Java
The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India | Keyser, Arthur Louis, 1856-1924 | en | | | | Java (Indonesia) -- Description and travel; Java (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs | 2009-01-08 |
The Snow Image and other stories | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | en | | The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle -- The Great Stone Face -- Ethan Brand -- The Canterbury Pilgrims -- The Devil in Manuscript -- My Kinsman, Major Molineux | | Short stories; New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Historical fiction, American | 1996-05-01 |
Robin Redbreast
A Story for Girls | Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921 | en | | | Barnes, Robert, 1840-1895 [Illustrator] | Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Family -- England -- Juvenile fiction; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-07-18 |
The Seminole Indians of Florida
Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 | MacCauley, Clay, 1843-1925 | en | | | | Seminole Indians -- History; Seminole Indians -- Social life and customs | 2006-09-01 |
Prudence Says So | Hueston, Ethel, 1887- | en | | | | Weddings -- Juvenile fiction; Betrothal -- Social aspects -- Juvenile fiction; Methodists -- Juvenile fiction | 2007-05-28 |
The Magic Egg and Other Stories | Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902 | en | | The magic egg -- His wife's deceased sister -- The widow's cruise -- Captain Eli's best ear -- Love before breakfast -- The staying power of Sir Rohan -- A piece of red calico -- The Christmas wreck -- My well and what came out of it -- Mr. Tolman -- My unwilling neighbor -- Our archery club. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 1996-02-01 |
Armadale | Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 | en | | | | Psychological fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Men -- England -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Fate and fatalism -- Fiction; England -- Fiction | 1999-09-01 |
Virgin Soil | Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich, 1818-1883 | en | Translation of Nov | | Townsend, R. S. [Translator] | Russia -- Politics and government -- 1801-1917; Revolutionaries -- Russia -- Fiction; Russia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Country homes -- Fiction | 2001-01-01 |
The Old Curiosity Shop | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | en | | | | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Grandparent and child -- Fiction; Antique dealers -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Gamblers -- Fiction; Girls -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Domestic fiction | 1996-10-01 |
Elizabeth and Her German Garden | Arnim, Elizabeth von, 1866-1941 | en | | | | Gardens -- Fiction; Women gardeners -- Fiction; Autobiographical fiction; British -- Germany -- Fiction; Gardening -- Fiction; Germany, Northern -- Description and travel; Germany -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 1998-05-01 |
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit | Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 | en | | | | Remus, Uncle (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; African American men -- Fiction; Animals -- Fiction; Georgia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction | 2007-08-09 |