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...Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and searches for suitable husbands for herself and her yo...

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...Excerpt: Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon. My Dear Brother,--I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite co...

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...A PENN S TATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P UBLICATION Lady Susan by Jane Austen Lady Susan by Jane Austen is a publication of th... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Lady Susan by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Lady Susan by Jane Austen I Lady Susan Vernon to Mr. Vernon Langford, Dec. ... ...er to receive me. Your most obliged and affectionate sister, S. Vernon. 4 Lady Susan II Lady Susan Vernon to Mrs. Johnson Langford. You were mistaken... ...l, however, I must remain till I have some- thing better in view. My young lady accompanies me to town, where I shall deposit her under the care of Mi... ...ill send you a line as soon as I arrive in town. Yours ever, S. Vernon. 6 Lady Susan III Mrs. Vernon to Lady De Courcy Churchhill. My dear Mother,—I ... ...hat happiness by a circumstance which is not likely to make us any amends. Lady Susan, in a letter to her brother-in-law, has declared her intention o... ... was by no means prepared for such an event, nor can I now account for her ladyship’s conduct; Langford appeared so exactly the place for her in every... ...incerity; but, as for myself, I am still unconvinced, and plausibly as her lady- ship has now written, I cannot make up my mind till I better understa...

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...When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like such di...

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...As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt. Lady Duff-Gordon had tuberculosis, and went to Egypt for her health. This collection...

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...These are Alice Lady Lovat's meditations on the treatise Del Aprecio y Estima de la Divina Gracia, written by the prolific Roman Catholic theologian and mystic Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, S.J. (1595-1658). Nieremberg's treatise was published in...

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...Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Boer War. ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft?s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady B...

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...ERNARD SHAW ACT I It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft’s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortab... ...A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart’s writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller... ...it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door behind him on Lady Britomart’s side; and a window with a window seat directly on his left... ...w with a window seat directly on his left. Near the window is an armchair. Lady Britomart is a woman of fifty or thereabouts, well dressed and yet car... ...ss rather than from any weakness of character. STEPHEN. What’s the matter? LADY BRITOMART. Presently, Stephen. Stephen submissively walks to the sette... ...n submissively walks to the settee and sits down. He takes up The Speaker. LADY BRITOMART . Don’t begin to read, Stephen. I shall require all your att... ...e all your attention. STEPHEN. It was only while I was waiting— 4 GB Shaw LADY BRITOMART . Don’t make excuses, Stephen. [He puts down The Speaker]. N... ...have not kept you waiting very long, I think. STEPHEN. Not at all, mother. LADY BRITOMART. Bring me my cushion. [He takes the cushion from the chair a... ...it. STEPHEN. I beg your pardon. [He fiddles with his watch chain instead]. LADY BRITOMART. Now are you attending to me, Stephen? STEPHEN. Of course, m...

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...Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, published in 1893. As in some of his other comedies, Wilde satirizes the morals of Victorian society, and attitudes between the sexes. The ...

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...Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 1862, it tells the story of the lovely Lucy Graham, who becomes Lady Audley at the beginning of the novel, and who conceals a ...

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...m England in order to be together, could never marry - because her mother was married to someone else. Therefore, she is forced to work for the cruel Lady Henry Delafield, who hates her. She has a few good friends, amongst whom are 2 admirers… And that is only the beginning. This is a compelling drama, set mostly in England, among the English aristocracy. By turns smart, f...

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Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.

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... TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James PREFACE The Portrait of a Lady was, like Roderick Hudso... ...heir own life and too charged with their own meanings 4 The Portrait of a Lady merely to help him out with a lame phrase; they draw him away from his... ... measure. If I watch them long enough I see them come 6 The Portrait of a Lady together, I see them placed, I see them engaged in this or that act an... ...ss close connexion of the subject with some mark made 8 The Portrait of a Lady on the intelligence, with some sincere experience. By which, at the sa... ...ious of the rare little “piece” left in deposit by the reduced, mysterious lady of title or the speculative ama- teur, and which is already there to d... ... which is already there to disclose its merit afresh 10 The Portrait of a Lady as soon as a key shall have clicked in a cupboard-door. That may he, I... ...egun with being all my outfit for the large building of “The Portrait of a Lady.” It came to be a square and spacious house—or has at least seemed so ...

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...volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010. Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best k...

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...tten for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary?s favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better tha...

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...rge Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...vania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 GB Shaw Dark Lady of the Sonnets by George Bernard Shaw 1910 PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF... ...a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend tha... ...istress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary’s favor (or against her... ...e in Mary’s favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better than she ought to have been) was complete, a portrait of... ...lete, a portrait of Mary came to light and turned out to be that of a fair lady, not of a dark one. That settles the question, if the portrait is auth... ...ion, if the portrait is authentic, which I see no reason to doubt, and the lady’s hair undyed, which is perhaps less certain. Shakespear rubbed in the... ...ady’s hair undyed, which is perhaps less certain. Shakespear rubbed in the lady’s complexion in his sonnets mercilessly; for in his day black hair was...