Browse Items (4 total)
- Tags: Historical fiction
Modern Chivalry
Tags: 1826, A Winter's Tale, Antigua, Atlantic Souvenir, Bacchus, British colonies, Canton, Cape May, Catholic, Chesapeake Bay, China, Cowes, cross-dressing, disguise, Dolph Heilegher, Don Juan Canto II, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Elk River, England, Gravesend, Haverstraw Bay, Henry IV Part I, Hermione, Historical fiction, Hong merchants, Hudson River, indenture, Isle of Wight, John Paul Jones (1747-1792), Lord Byron, Maryland, Oliver Goldsmith, Pasha, Perdita, Philadelphia, plantation, Pope, Redwood: A Tale, Revolutionary War, Rodomontade novels, Romance novels, sailing, sailors, sentimentality, servants, Shakespeare, shipwreck, Sir Oracle, Sir Toby Blech, Sir Walter Scott, slavery, St. Kitts, Storm, tears, Thames River, The Heart of Midlothian, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Washington Irving, West Indies
The White Scarf
Tags: 15th century, 1838, 1839, A New England Tale and Miscellanies, Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435), bourgeois, Charles VI of France, Count de Vaudemont, Duke of Burgundy [John the Fearless], feudalism, France, Historical fiction, Isabella of Bavaria, Italians, Italy, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Jean de Montagu, John - Duke of Berry, literacy, Louis I Duke of Orleans, lynch law, marriage, mystery play, Notre Dame, Romance, scaffold, St. Therese, The Hesperian, The Token, torture rack, Valentina Visconti (Duchess of Orleans)
A Huguenot Family
Tags: 1842, Catholic, childbirth, crucifix, Edict of Nantes, emigration, France, Godey's Lady's Book, heretic, Historical fiction, Huguenot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Sevigne, Madame Montespan, martyrs, midwife, mother, New World, persecution, physician, Poitu, Prison, prison escape, Protestant, Sarah Josepha Hale, servants, sons, Tales and Sketches - Second Series