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Written by the prolific Victorian author Catherine Gore, best known for her novels about high society, "Sketches of English Character "is a reaction to what she saw as the lack of individuality in society. In a series of witty and observant short stories, she describes what she believes to be the stereotypical figures of Victorian life. From the interfering Chaperon getting in the way of the Debutante's romantic expectations, to the overblown ...

Written by the prolific Victorian author Catherine Gore, best known for her novels about high society, "Sketches of English Character "is a reaction to what she saw as the lack of individuality in society. In a series of witty and observant short stories, she describes what she believes to be the stereotypical figures of Victorian life. From the interfering Chaperon getting in the way of the Debutante's romantic expectations, to the overblown ...

Excerpt from Self, Vol. 3 of 3 More than two years elapsed after the death of Philip Askham's lamented wife, undistinguished by the occurrence of any memorable event at Eden Castle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel Dear Sir, I cannot more strongly mark that the following pages are intended to exhibit the failings of an individual, not as an attack upon a class, than by placing at the head of my work the name of one who, ancestrally connected for the last two centuries with the banking profession in a house of business which has existed in the same spot since the year 1650, has add...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelYour father begged me to tell you, Walter, said Mrs. Hamlyn, embracing her son with a dejected air, as she was about to enter the carriage for her journey that he had half promised Colonel Hamilton you would dine with him to-day. Do, my dear son, if not very disagreeable to you! You have no reasonable excuse, for the Colonel is aware that you are staying here alone 3'About ...

Excerpt from The Banker's Wife, or Court and City, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Moreover, all was so bright, so prosperous, so sunshiny around her, that it seemed absurd to look out for breakers when launched on that glassy sea, and under a sky so propi tious. Flattering as was her position in London life, the banker's wife had never felt the value of her good acceptation ln society till called upon to present her daughter. The kindness with which Ly...

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Excerpt from The Ambassador's Wife The mansion house of Schloss Rehfeld, of considerable extent and some two centuries' antiquity, is constructed of small red bricks, coped and ornamented with freestone, which, in a peculiarly dry atmosphere and upheld with the orderliness of a prosperous estate, maintains to this day its freshness, as if existent only on the immortal canvas of the artists already cited. Time has done little to the old mansio...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 1 of 3I venture to record these unimportant circumstances, to shew' that while our sole or chief acquaintance with Hungary is derived from Dr. Bright's excellent volume, there is scarcely an event of English life, -a folly of London fashion, or an invention of British industry, which does not find admirers and com mentators and imitators, among the Hun garians of respectable degree.About the PublisherForgotte...

Excerpt from Birthright, Vol. 2 of 3: And Other TalesFew districts in Europe are more devoid of local interest than the frontier-country between Belgium and France: especially at its maritime extremity, towards Western Flanders, where dykes and ditches, and an ill-favoured, aguish lookin g population a¿'ord incontrovertible testi mony to the fenny nature of the soil. In that ¿at and dreary landscape, Where a canal becomes an interesting featur...

Excerpt from Hungarian Tales, Vol. 2 of 3 Oh! Who would be a woman! Who that fool, A weeping, pining, faithful, loving woman? She hath hard measures still where she hopes kindest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstru...

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Excerpt from Birthright, and Other Tales, Vol. 1 of 3 Most true! Replied the young man to whom this observation was addressed, by a companion of more' than double his years, as they sat together over their Wine, in the dining room of a fine old country mansion, named Holme Court, enjoying sweet converse which appeared to have led the elder of the two into a vein somewhat narrative. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from Mothers and Daughters, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale of the Year 1830 Elbe. Immediate drowning is preferable to hanging next season, which would have been poor Frederick's inevitable destiny. Lorimer is far too sensitively honourable a fellow to put up with a giddy ¿irting wife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction o...

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