Boating and Bicycling merrily along: spending some leisure time with Jerome...
Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome ~ 1889 and 1900. This omnibus edition: Penguin, 1999. Introduction and notes by Jeremy Lewis. Softcover. ISBN: 0-14-043750-9. 362...
View ArticleThe mixed blessings of singleness, 1901 style: The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed
The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed ~ 1901. This edition: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1903. Hardcover. 222 pages. My rating: 5.5/10 Myrtle Reed, newly bestselling author in the second year of her ten-year...
View ArticleOn the Other Side of the Latch by Sara Jeannette Duncan
On the Other Side of the Latch by Sara Jeannette Duncan ~ 1901. American title: The Crow’s Nest. This edition: Methuen & Co., 1901. Hardcover. 266 pages. My rating: 7/10 I am very fond of Sara...
View ArticleA lovely lady (or two) in pernicious peril! – The Slave of Silence by Fred M....
The Slave of Silence by Fred M. White ~ 1906. This edition: Ward, Lock & Co. Hardcover. 252 pages. My rating: 3/10 I regret to say that this highly improbable romantic melodrama was, despite its...
View ArticleSecrets of a Miser’s Daughter: Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett ~ 1902. This edition: Penguin, 1991. Paperback. ISBN: 0-14-018015-X. 236 pages. Nothing else was possible. She who had never failed in duty did not fail then....
View ArticleWhen Father went away: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Frontispiece showing Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis waving away at a passing train. The Charles Edmund Brock drawings of the original Edwardian edition are utterly charming, and if seeking out an edition...
View ArticleOur anthill satellite: The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells ~ 1901. This edition: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1901. Hardcover. 254 pages. This was a first for me: one of H.G. Wells science fiction/fantasy novels. I’ve read...
View ArticleAnna the Adventuress by E. Phillips Oppenheim: A Sort-of-Sizzling...
Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips Oppenheim ~ 1904. This edition: Ward, Lock & Co., circa 1904. Hardcover. 318 pages. The girl paused and steadied herself for a moment against a field gate. Her...
View ArticleStanding (well) behind her man: What Every Woman Knows by J.M. Barrie
What Every Woman Knows by J.M. Barrie ~ 1908. This edition: University of London Press, 1954. Hardcover. 128 pages. A bit of a departure from the norm of my usual reading this one is, in that it is...
View Article“They seek him here, they seek him there…” ~ The Scarlet Pimpernel by...
Not my dust jacket, but the one that my tattered red hardcover would have had when it hit the book shops. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy ~ 1905. This edition: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950....
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