English prose literature
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Personal writings by women to 1900
Chaucer and the mystics
Fifteenth century translation as an influence on English prose
Hesiod
Modern prose style
Women's lives and the 18th-century English novel
Miracles and the pulp press during the English Revolution
Victorian prose
The genius of John Ruskin
Maeves Times Selected Irish Times Writings
Select translations from Old English prose
Victorian Diary
Poems
Print culture and the early Quakers
The Household book of Irish eloquence
Finding Courage
Travel writing
The inner I
Loneliness and Time
Romantic autobiography in England
Edwardian stories of divorce
Our Lady of Victorian feminism
Out of her mind
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot
British travel writers, 1837-1875
Cahiers II
Victorian crime, madness and sensation
The writings of Henry David Thoreau
Telling Time
The King Arthur companion
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