era: victorian

  • 30+ FREE Books: Women’s Historical Diaries

    This is the third of several posts linking to various public domain books on interesting topics! Public domain books are ones that have fallen out of copyright, and so they’re available for free to download and read. This specific post focuses on the following: Be sure to also check out 101+ FREE Books About Women Traveling the World for more books! I’ve put this list together myself (no AI!!) by going through many (MANY) pages of books on the “diaries” keyword pages. I even hand-coded the links myself! My hope is that putting these lists together will help you discover…

  • 100+ More FREE Books About Women Traveling the World

    This is the second of several posts linking to various public domain books on interesting topics! Public domain books are ones that have fallen out of copyright, and so they’re available for free to download and read. This specific post focuses on the following: Be sure to also check out 101+ FREE Books About Women Traveling the World for more books! I’ve put this list together myself (no AI!!) by going through many (MANY) pages of books within the various travel-related subject pages. I even hand-coded the links myself! While you can find a lot just going through the main…

  • 101+ FREE Books About Women Traveling the World

    This is the first of several posts linking to various public domain books on interesting topics! Public domain books are ones that have fallen out of copyright, and so they’re available for free to download and read. This specific post focuses on the following: I’ve put this list together myself (no AI!!) by going through many (MANY) pages of books within the various travel-related subject pages. I even hand-coded the links myself! While you can find a lot just going through the main “travel” genre page, I noticed that some books get sorted under specific location subjects or even just…

  • Author Frances Hodgson Burnett Book Index

    Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). (via Wikipedia) Info The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books, and while I’ve read some of FHB’s other kids books (The Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy) I never knew she wrote so many other books– and most of them for adults! This is a bibliography of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s major works, including novels, novellas (or “novelettes”), and short story collections. I…

  • Lima Bean Soup Recipe from 1898

    This soup recipe comes from The Enterprising Housekeeper (1898), which is a collection of recipes put together by Helen Louise Johnson and published by the Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pennsylvania. Inside you’ll find adverts for products the company made mixed with the recipes, and some of them have great images that I’ll no doubt end up sharing here later on. According to the preface for the soup chapter, soups with heartier ingredients like beans can be used for a main dish (if it’s a lighter soup or broth, it should be used as a starter instead). 👉 All Recipes /…

  • The Langs’ Colored Fairy Books Index

    The Fairy Books are 25 volumes of collected fairy tale stories from around the world, translated and compiled by Leonora Blanche Lang and edited by her husband, Andrew Lang, in the late 1800s to early 1910s. You can read more about the history of the books and their creation on Wikipedia! This post is specifically an index for the books in the “Colored Fairy Books” collection, which is 12 volumes. I’ve also put together an index of the contents of each of the Colored Fairy Books, so you can CTRL-F to find a specific story and see which volume it’s…

  • Winter Birds (& Poems) Vintage Cards

    These images are from chromolithograph greeting cards made by L. Prang & Co. in the late 1800s in Boston. The artist was Hector Giacomelli, and the poems are signed E.S.F. You can download these images and use them for art, scrapbooking, junk journaling, etc.– they’re in the public domain in the US and come from the NYPL’s Digital Collection here. I’ve cropped them and made them into individual JPG images, which is what you see here. If you’d like higher quality PNGs at 300 DPI, or if you’d like a high quality printable page of all four images on one…

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    Poem: WINTER-TIME (1895)

    Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;Blinks but an hour or two; and then,A blood-red orange, sets again.Before the stars have left the skies,At morning in the dark I rise;And shivering in my nakedness,By the cold candle, bathe and dress.Close by the jolly fire I sitTo warm my frozen bones a bit;Or with a reindeer-sled, exploreThe colder countries round the door.When to go out, my nurse doth wrapMe in my comforter and cap;The cold wind burns my face, and blowsIts frosty pepper up my nose.Black are my steps on silver sod;Thick blows my frosty breath abroad;And tree and…