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Mountaineering is not merely walking up hill. It is the art of getting safely up and down a peak where there is no path, and where steps may have to be cut in the ice; it is the art of selecting the best line of ascent under conditions which vary from day to day. Mountaineering as a science took long...

According to Wikipedia: "L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime. Her most famous book was A World of Girls, published...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from Third Series: “Our old grey church at Church Dykely stood in a solitary spot. Servant maids (two of ours once, Hannah and Molly), and silly village girls went there sometimes to watch for the “shadows” on...

This 1888 biography launched Green's career as a respected historian in her own right, after years of assisting her husband, historian John R. Green, in his work.  Green was the only woman to contribute to the Twelve English Statesmen series—a reflection of her high ability as well as the sexism of the time.

     "But suppose she wasn't nice? she needn't be, you know. There are grandmothers and grandmothers," persisted Ralph.      "Of course I know that," said Molly. "You don't suppose I thought our grandmother was everybody's grandmother, you silly boy.

Excerpt: "It was Henry Arkell. For the years have gone on, and the lovely boy of ten or eleven, has grown into this handsome youth. Other people and other things have grown with him. Now then What be you doing here You just please to take yourself Off, young gentleman.' He quitted the railings in...

In the midst of the Berkshire scenery, so fair and wealthy, this pleasant little place, Netherleigh, nestled in a sylvan hollow. It was only a small, unpretending hamlet at its best, and its rustic inhabitants were hard-working and simple. On a wide extent of country, surrounded on all sides as far...

A series of vignettes about life in the Victorian times in Great Britain. Excerpt from First Series: "We lived chiefly at Dyke Manor. A fine old place, so close upon the borders of Warwickshire and Worcestershire, that many people did not know which of the two counties it was really in. The house...

East Lynne is an English sensation novel of 1861 by Ellen Wood. A Victorian best-seller, it is remembered chiefly for its elaborate and implausible plot, centring on infidelity and double identities. There have been numerous stage and film adaptations. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined...

Lilly and her sisters go to their auntie’s house all the time, and when they go there they do things normal people do.  But on this day, turning right instead of turning their usual left transformed a normal walk into an weird and wonderful adventure!