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Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868 - 1947) was an early 20th century British novelist. Her pen name was Belloc Lowndes. Her stories combined exciting incidents with psychological interest. Her most famous novel was The Lodger, published in 1913, based on the Jack the Ripper murders. From Out the Vasty Deep was published in 1920, It is a classic tale of astral-projection, séances, and the supernatural among British high society.

Anthony Trollope was a prolific Victorian writer. Trollope's best-loved works were known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which center on the imaginary county of Basetshire. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts. Deception, guilt and redemption fill the pages of this novel. It is a tale dealing with the unconventional topic of homoerotic fantasy. Jones is a virtuous upstanding young man. He is trave...

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Mary Jane Holmes was an American writer living in the last half of the 1800's. She began teaching school at age 13. Her novels centered on domestic life. Holmes comments on how various social issues affect women. Her approach to women's moral development was secular. The story begins, "Collingwood was to have a tenant at last. For twelve long years its massive walls of dark grey stone had frowned in gloomy silence upon the passers-by, the terr...

Frederick Booth-Tucker was commissioner to India for the Salvation Army. Darkest India: A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" was written as an introduction of Booth's In Darkest England and the Way Out. An excerpt from the preface reads, "Leaving to the care of existing agencies those whose bodies are diseased, General Booth's scheme seeks to fling the mantle of brotherhood around the morally sick, the destitut...

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Mary Jane Holmes was an American writer living in the last half of the 1800's. She began teaching school at age 13. Her novels centered on domestic life. Her novels were published in a serialized form in different magazines. In her work, she comments on how various social issues effect women. An excerpt from the book reads, "The person thus addressed was a lady, whose face, though young and handsome, wore a look, which told of early sorrow. Ma...

Edith Wharton's novels and short stories are full of her humorous understanding of the upper classes. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect and interior designer. She left America for France beginning in 1907 and stayed during World War 1. Even though a foreigner she remained and helped the refugees wherever she could. Ethan Frome is her most famous work. Coming Home was first published in 1915. It is the story of ...

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Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 -1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century. In his stories the supernatural explanation is implied, but there is always a remote but possible natural explanation. Carmilla is the story of a vampire, illustrating the victory of superstition over logic.

The room which yielded so much satisfaction to the two boys was on the fourth floor of a boarding-house in Bleecker Street. No doubt many of my young readers, who are accustomed to elegant homes, would think it very plain, but neither Richard nor his friend had been used to anything as good. They had been thrown upon their own exertions at an early age, and had a hard battle to fight with poverty and ignorance. Those of my readers who are fami...

Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 - 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Returning from Europe aboard the RMS Titanic, Futrelle, a first-cabin passenger, refused to board a lifeboat insisting his wife board instead. His wife remembered the l...

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Mary Augusta Ward (1851 -1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name Mrs. Humphry Ward. She read French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Mary Augusta Ward began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 titled Milly and Olly. Her novels expressed strong religious values and Victorian morals. In 1908 she helped found the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League. El...

Childhood, Boyhood and Youth were originally published in separate parts in the 1850s. This trilogy portrays a fictionalized version of the author's formative years in Russia. "Childhood" and "Boyhood" were written when Tolstoy was in the army, "Youth" was composed during a visit to western Europe. Years later, he said, "What I aimed at was not to write my own history, but that of friends of my youth." Tolstoy sought to communicate the intense...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century short story writer and novelist. The Scarlet Letter is his most famous novel. The years Hawthorne spent in England were some of his happiest and most trying. President Pierce appointed Hawthorne United States Consul at Liverpool. He held this post for four years. The time Hawthorne spent in public office gave him a chance to leave writing and observe the world. Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and O...