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  • The Children On The Top Floor

    The Children On The Top Floor

    The Children On The Top Floor (1904)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by Nina Rhoades. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32279 Information is not so readily available on Nina Rhoades, this children’s author who wrote a good amount of juveniles in the early 1900s. Delving into newspaper archives, I found a very interesting article from the Cambridge Tribune, November 7th, 1908, which states that Nina’s…

  • The Father Christmas

    A long time back we talked of Our Darlings, a book I got while I was in England in 2010. It’s hard to tell when it was published, because sometimes they didn’t put years on the copyright page. This is especially true with British publications. I think this is from the 20s. THE FATHER CHRISTMAS.…

  • Our Darlings Day 5: A Comforting Aunt :: The Egg Party :: The Story Writer :: East and West

    This story is continued from a previous story My Own! My Own! A Comforting Aunt ” There they are!” said Bobbie. Yes, there they were! Grandma, and Aunties Lucy, Lil and Rachel and two children! ” Grace and Geoff!” cried Ivy, peeping over Bobbie’s head. The four woebegone dolls, just a bit less woebegone now they…