Amelia Edwards
Was it an Illusion? A Parson's Story
My first appointment was to a West of England district largely peopled with my personal friends and connections. I transferred to a new beat in the North and lived with a couple of small farmers...
The Four-Fifteen Express
The events which I am about to relate took place between nine and ten years ago. William Langford, Jonathan Jelf's cousin, invited him to spend Christmas week with them. Loquacious Mr. Dwerrihouse...
How the Third Floor Knew the Potteries
George Barnard helped me to pay for a little cheap schooling four nights a week, where I first saw Leah Payne. After I talked with George in the yard, he shook my hand off and stamped with his iron...
A Story of Salome
Harcourt Blunt and Coventry Turnour travelled together to Athens, and then on to Venice. I had resolved to allow myself a month's sketching in Venice and its neighbourhood before turning my face...
A Service of Danger
FREDERICK GEORGE BYNG was welcomed by the Archduke Charles and Gustav von Lichtenstein, but the Archduke John wanted boldness and erred on the side of over-caution. The famous battle of Hohenlinden...
An Engineer's Story
Benjamin Hardy was apprenticed to a Birmingham iron-master and began a new life taking trial trips with the locomotives. Our landlady was the widow of a silver-worker, and had more lovers than she...
The Phantom Coach
A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic.