 | The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $26.70 Sir Guy comes from "bad blood", can he surmount the wickedness of past generations?
Guy falls in love with Amabel, they overcome many obstacles and hardships. Will cousin Philip destroy their happiness? Will love conquer all?
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 | Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.65 The Original Governess Gothic that resulted in many feeble imitations.
Tortured hero, Edward, has a horrific secret. Jane is the poor orphaned governess. Thornfield is the estate.
Bigamous marriage, arson, madness and a flight across dangerous moors. There's more...
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 | Under Two Flags: A Story of the Household and the Desert (Oxford Popular Fiction) by Ouida
Buy used from: $0.01 Military Romance set in North Africa. Cigarette, a camp follower, falls in love with Algerian Army officer, Bertie.
Bertie is the noble English Gentleman.
This is a tragic doomed love with no future for heroic Cigarette.
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 | Moths (Broadview Edition) by Ouida Ouida
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $14.19 Moths by Ouida. Heroine Vere, is married to corrupt Russian, Prince Zouroff. Vere loves Opera Singer, de Correze.
Vere remains true to her vows. Zouroff remains a drunken, unfaithful gambler who wounds de Correze in a duel. Will de Correze survive?
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 | To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $8.23 Heroine Jocelyn arrives in Virginia on a Bride Ship. She is fleeing evil Lord Carnal. She enters into a Marriage of Convenience with Ralph. Ralph agrees not to consummate the union. Evil ex-suitor arrives soon after.
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 | The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the Madcap (American Women Writers Series) by E. D. E. N. Southworth
Buy new: $22.14 / Used from: $10.50 Capitola, a cross-dressing N.Y.C. street urchin, becomes the ward of Virginia Planter, Ira Warfield (Hurricane).
Tomboy Capitola is a lost heiress, victim of the villianous Le Noirs. She survives evil intentions and finds her one true love.
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 | The Curse Of Clifton: Or The Widowed Bride by Emma Dorothy E. N. Southworth
Buy new: $38.65 / Used from: $47.59 Captain Archer Clifton, has suffered a broken engagement to his beautiful cousin, proud Carolyn Clifton. The broken engagement is due to the machinations of Carolyn's beautiful, evil stepmother, Georgia. Georgia, at fifteen, was married to the thrice widowed fool, Old Mr Clifton.
This is the story of the Clifton family's
trials with obsession and true love.
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 | Meadow Brook Mary J. Holmes Series by Mary J. Holmes
Buy used from: $9.99 A sprightly romance from a prolific author. Rosa Lee's adventures from New England girlhood through courtship with a Georgian Plantation Owner. Lots of sickness, death and misunderstandings.
The writing is fast and colloquial.
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 | St. Elmo by Augusta J. Eavns
Buy new: $28.99 / Used from: $18.11 Pure young orphan, Edna, is the ward of Mrs Murray. Her son, St Elmo, is a dissolute seducer. Edna conquers St Elmo, and returns him to the straight and narrow. St Elmo enjoys every minute of it.
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 | Beulah (Dodo Press) by Augusta J. Evans
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $17.87 Poor orphan, Beulah, is rescued by kindly Doctor Hartwell.
She becomes his Ward, he becomes her Guardian. Sound familiar?
She refuses to be legally adopted, but does accept his offer of an education. Smart move, 'cause you can't marry your adoptive Dad.
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 | Infelice by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $19.97 Interesting romances of a disavowed wife and her daughter. Minnie married Cuthbert Laurance. Cuthbert's father hides the marriage. Cuthbert remarries, Merle becomes the famous actress, Mrs Odile Orme. Daughter Regina is boarded with guardians for her safety. Mr Palma expresses an interest. Very good story.
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 | The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.99 Romance by the author of "The Secret Garden".
Pretty sweet American heiress, Rosalie, marries no-good dissolute English Nobleman, Nigel, Lord Anstruthers. She is mistreated and disrespected.
But she has a champion in her sister, Bettina Vanderpoel. The Brits don't stand a chance.
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 | The Sheik by E. M. Hull
Buy new: $12.55 / Used from: $6.80 The original "cative loves captor", sex in the sand romance. The original forced seduction (rape) romance.
The prototype of the Alpha Male, Sheik Ahmed, and the "too stupid too live" heroine, Diana, who find love in the Sahara. Along with abduction, rape, murder and attempted suicide.
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 | Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $11.25 Forbidden, adulterous love. A mysterious Princess and a young hero, Paul, share three weeks of rapturous love. The
Princess has an abusive, sterile husband and a Kingdom that needs an heir.
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 | The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. Dell
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $25.98 Stella unknowingly marries a bigamist Officer, Ralph Dacre.
Captain Monck convinces Ralph to desert or all will be revealed. Stella believes she is a widow. What next?
This holds up very well as a romance.
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 | Cometh Up as a Flower, Volume I (Dodo Press) by Rhoda Broughton
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $14.59 Edwardian romance concerning an independent but poor young woman a handsome soldier and the conflicts that arise from the deceit of a truly evil sibling. Very good but sad. Published in two volumes.
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 | Cometh Up as a Flower, Volume II (Dodo Press) by Rhoda Broughton
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.71 Volume 2 of Edwardian romance.
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 | Not Wisely but Too Well (Pocket Classics) by Rhoda Broughton
Buy used from: $22.72 The tale of a married rake, Captain Dare Stamer, and the woman who loves him.
Kate Chester falls in love with Dare but, surprise, is unable to reform this unrepentent sinner. Very good story, but sad.
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 | Rutledge by Miriam Coles Harris
Buy new: $39.38 / Used from: $4.01 An American Gothic romance concerning the Rochester-like Mr Rutledge and a young unnamed orphan schoolgirl.
There is an uncaring, prideful maternal aunt and selfish, nasty cousins. Sad deaths, illegitimacy, and murder, but no wife in the attic.
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 | Patience Sparhawk And Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Atherton
Buy new: $39.38 / Used from: $39.01 Patience has a dipsomaniac mother, whom she is unable to love or respect. She marries a man that she is unable to love or respect. Someone murders her husband. Can the Lawyer that she does love and respect save her from "Old Sparky"?
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