The convent was situated on a hilltop, and through the green garden the white dresses of the schoolgirls fluttered like the snowy plumage of a hundred doves. Obeying a sudden...

George Moore wanted to be a painter. In 1873, he left London for Paris, where he intended to study painting. He enrolled in several studios, first at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and...

He was the son of the Rev. James Price, a Shropshire clergyman. The family was of Welsh extraction, but in Hubert none of the physical characteristics of the Celt appeared. He...

Kate Ede is bored provincial housewife. She is married to an asthmatic draper. This seemingly uneventful and hopeless existence is suddenly disturbed by a handsome travelling...

The story follows a young man named Dayne mirroring author's own life experiences in bohemian art scene of emerging Parisian impressionism. These true confessions are often...

She will not run into debt; and she's quite right; so we have to manage with what we've got in the convent. Of course there are some vegetables and some flour in the house; but we...

Kate Ede is bored provincial housewife. She is married to an asthmatic draper. This seemingly uneventful and hopeless existence is suddenly disturbed by a handsome travelling...

Your outlook on life is so different from mine that I can hardly imagine you being built of the same stuff as myself. Yet I venture to put my difficulty before you. It is, of...

At Oxford they say that marriage is not the only mission for women— that is to say, for some women. They don't despise marriage, but they think that for some women there is...

It was one of those enticing days at the beginning of May when white clouds are drawn about the earth like curtains. The lake lay like a mirror that somebody had breathed upon,...