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Spinsters & Soldiers

Author : Caylen McQueen

Publisher : Caylen McQueen

Page : 507 pages

File Size : 37,25 MB

Release : 2020-09-27

Category : Fiction

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Spinsters & Soldiers is a collection of five Regency romance novels and novellas by author Caylen McQueen In Spinster and the Beast, a spinster divulges her heartache in an anonymous letter and hides it under a stone. She doesn't expect to get a reply, but she does... In The Captain's Letters, an aging woman finds comfort in letters from her deceased beau. In The Spinster's Beau, a sick little girl is determined to find a wife for her brother before she dies. In The Wanton Widow, brazen Willow Worthington helps a stuttering young man overcome his shyness. In The Demure Debutante, a painfully shy plain Jane falls for a gentleman who is far above her reach.



The Spinster's Beau

Author : Caylen McQueen

Publisher : Caylen McQueen

Page : 85 pages

File Size : 18,44 MB

Release : 2020-09-27

Category : Fiction

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Robin Cockburn needs a wife. Awkward, shy, and a bit clumsy, he has never had much success with the fairer sex. With the guidance of his precocious little sister, Robin is determined to pursue Harriet Dawson, a rare beauty. Could society's darling be too far above his reach? Sure enough, Harriet gives him the cold shoulder, and he finds himself lost in a sea of suitors. Brushed aside, Robin finds a friend in Harriet's chaperone: Emily Weaver. Harriet's maiden aunt is a wise, witty woman with a mischievous sparkle in her eye. To his great surprise, he finds himself drawn to her. How will the spinster react when he claims to be her suitor? Sensuality Level: Sweet



The Spinster Bride

Author : Jane Goodger

Publisher : Kensington Books

Page : 259 pages

File Size : 27,17 MB

Release : 2015-02-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1601831633

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An unlucky-at-love veteran gets more than he bargained for from his matchmaker in this Victorian romance by the author of When a Lord Needs a Lady. Mr. Charles Norris needs help finding a wife . . . For he has the unfortunate habit of falling for each Season’s loveliest debutante, only to have his heart broken when she weds another. Surely Lady Marjorie Penwhistle can help him. She’s sensible, clever, knows the ton, and must marry a peer, which he is not. Since she’s decidedly out of his reach, Charles is free to enjoy her refreshing honesty—and her unexpectedly enticing kisses . . . Lady Marjorie Penwhistle doesn’t want a husband . . . At least not the titled-but-unbearable suitors her mother is determined she wed. She’d rather stay unmarried and look after her eccentric brother. Still, advising Mr. Norris is a most exciting secret diversion. After all, how hard will it be to match-make someone so forthright, honorable, and downright handsome? It's not as if she’s in danger of finding Charles all-too-irresistible herself . . . Praise for The Spinster Bride “Alternates between being funny thanks to spot on humorous dialog and heart wrenchingly realistic due to Jane Goodger's attention to detail and accuracy.” —Fresh Fiction



Darkling Spinster

Author : Wes Payton

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 44,66 MB

Release : 2017-09-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1682992551

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As a young woman, Reb lost her fiancé in the Civil War. After years of living a lonely life as a school teacher in Chicago, she accepts an invitation to stay with her well-to-do sister and brother-in-law in the boomtown of Tombstone. Life in Tombstone is not what she expects, as she is continually surprised by the luxuries to be had in the desert town. Her sister arranges dinners with a number of genteel suitors; however, it's an unlikely man who wins her heart. Reb's paramour shares an unexpected secret about his past and then disappears. She looks for him in the seedier parts of Tombstone and encounters well-known figures of the Old West, including Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday. Soon a mystery unfolds involving an artifact of American history. Reb investigates the matter and runs afoul of Tombstone's wealthiest citizen.



Mr. Kipling's Army

Author : Byron Farwell

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 13,31 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780393304442

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This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.





The Daughter of Night

Author : Stephen Watson Fullom

Publisher :

Page : 326 pages

File Size : 30,20 MB

Release : 1851

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A Specimen Spinster

Author : Kate Westlake Yeigh

Publisher :

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 45,62 MB

Release : 1906

Category : Adoption

ISBN :

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Report

Author : Commonwealth Shipping Committee

Publisher :

Page : 888 pages

File Size : 30,95 MB

Release : 1912

Category : Shipping

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Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities

Author : Naomi Braun Rosenthal

Publisher : State University of New York Press

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 32,67 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0791489434

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The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's life and demise by using stories from the Ladies' Home Journal (from 1890, 1913, and 1933), along with Hollywood films from the 1940s and 1950s, such as It's a Wonderful Life; Now, Voyager; and Summertime, among others. Originally invoked as a symbol of female independence a hundred years ago, when marriage and career were considered to be incompatible choices for women, spinsterhood was advocated as an alternate path by some and viewed as a threat to family life by others. Today, there are few traces of the spinster's existence—the options open to women have dramatically changed—but we continue to grapple with concerns about women's desires and "the future of the family."