European Victorian

Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels are known for their realism and psychological insight. Four of them are included in this volume: Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, The Mill on the Floss, and The Lifted Veil.

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living. Drawing on Ruth's unique firsthand experience gained from living on a Victorian farm for a year, this book will teach you everything you need to know about 19th-century living.

In War of Hearts, Annette Lyon's exciting novella, Anna, a journalist, is desperate to escape the magazine where Pete, her now-former boyfriend, also works. Heartbroken and still in love with him, Anna snags an assignment to cover the Winter War in Finland. She arrives at a snowy Finnish battlefront only to discover that Pete is already there - as her photographer.

When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom. Victoria ruled at the head of a government with which she was meant to converse, debate, and ultimately guide, and it was a job she sometimes struggled to perform. Victoria described herself as an emotional creature and blamed her gender for what she believed were her shortcomings as a monarch.

Theodora Goss's first major short story collection showcases such stories as "The Rose in Twelve Petals," "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow," "Lily, With Clouds," "In the Forest of Forgetting," "Sleeping With Bears," and many more.

Two men wish to marry her, but only one has a good heart. Will she Lady Emmeline choose correctly. Lady Emmeline Hyatt had no doubt that she would find a suitable husband during her first season. Her blonde hair, golden brown eyes, and dainty figure drew the eyes of many suitors. Two, in particular, caught her attention. Both men were extraordinarily handsome, though exact opposites in personality. Lord Benedict was a shy man, infatuated with the lovely lady, and willing to protect her with his own life. Mr. Buxton was outrageously flirtatious and could cause innocent women to swoon with ...

Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and near isolation until she became Queen of the United Kingdom at the young age of 18. She married her first cousin, Albert, and had nine children who married into families across Europe.

Arabella has not had a happy marriage. From the same era as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and Charles Dickens Great Expectations. Lovers of those classics will enjoy this romantic mystery from the Regency period. ***This book is included in the Regency Engagements Box Set.*** Left alone at her husband's estate for three years, she wars between despair and anger until she determines to go back to London in search of him. Her sister, Lady Cecelia Ward, introduces her to Lady Landerbelt and together, they come up with a plan. Now known as the widowed Lady ...

**Included in the following box set: Teen and Young Adult Historical Royalty Romance Box Set Miss Caroline Forbes receives an invitation from a Duke that will change her life. After receiving an invitation from the Duke of Wentworth to stay at his sprawling estate with her chaperone, Miss Caroline Forbes, travels by train to Eastbourne. Miss Forbes encounters a rather rude and patronizing woman on the train. After a brief incident, Miss Forbes quickly retaliates using harsh words as she had been taught to do so by her father, the Viscount Canterbury. After arriving at the duke’s estate, ...

Sexy bartender Seth Marino is the epitome of the allure and sophistication for which the town of Lavender Shores is known. For 20 years, Seth has found contentment and happiness as co-owner of the Blue Blossom Bed and Breakfast. Seth’s kind heart, good looks, and humor charm both locals and tourists - except the one person who despises him. Charley Perez began building the life of his dreams a few years before Seth moved to town.

Celeste struggles with finding her way from a dark past, until she gets a summer volunteer gig at the local historical fair. Enter: outrageous actors, dominating psychics, and ghosts stirred by a medium’s presence. With the help of the psychic’s son - who isn’t at all what her dream date would look like but rather endearing all the same - Celeste uncovers secrets about the village left hidden among the dilapidated buildings.

Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy's second novel, was published in 1872 and became the first of his great series of Wessex novels. The book, subtitled A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, tells the endearing tale of a group of church musicians who accompany the hymns at the local Mellstock parish choir and we follow the fortunes of one of its member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new school mistress, Fancy Day.