Mrs. Merriman and Lucy were standing at the white gates of Sunnyside, waiting for the arrival of the girls. Mrs. Merriman had soft brown hair, soft brown eyes to match, and a kindly, gentle face. Lucy was somewhat prim, very neat in her person, with thick fair hair which she wore in two long plaits far below her waist, a face full of intensity and determination, and a slightly set and formal way of speaking.
In 1898, The Strand Magazine, one of the most influential publications of the Victorian fin de siècle, deemed best-selling author and editor L.T. Meade a literary “celebrity” and “one of the most industrious writers of modern fiction.” Beginning in 1893 and continuing into the first decade of the twentieth century, Meade’s medical mysteries and thrilling tales of dangerous criminal women appeared in The Strand. There they competed successfully not only with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but also with the works of the most popular writers of the day. The Sorceress of the Strand is one of Meade’s most compelling mysteries, and the first to feature the seductive criminal genius Madame Sara. The Sorceress of the Strand is accompanied in this edition by three other popular stories featuring powerful female criminal protagonists, from gang leaders to spies and terrorists. The historical appendices expand on the stories’ themes of criminality, gender, and political activism. Twenty-eight of the original periodical illustrations are included.
Reproduction of the original: Wild Heather by L. T. Meade
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The Time of Roses, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Im Spiegel der englischen Gesellschaft um 1900
England um 1900: Die Geschichte beginnt mit Audrey, der 16-jährigen Bewohnerin von Wynford Castle. Aber sie wird nicht erben, das Schloss geht an ihre Cousine Evelyn, die sie nie kennengelernt hat. Als Evelyns Mutter stirbt, reist sie aus der "Wildnis Tasmaniens" nach Wynford Castle, nur mit ihrem Dienstmädchen Jasper als Begleitung. Evelyns "wilde" und "ungezähmte" Art bildet den zentralen Konflikt mit dem korrekten und behäbigen englischen Haushalt. Kann Evelyn jemals lernen, sich anzupassen und aufhören, "frech" und "böse" zu sein? Starke, voll entwickelte Charaktere, die nicht nur gut oder nur schlecht sind machen dieses Buch zu einem interessanten Spiegel der englischen Gesellschaft um die Jahrhundertwende.