1800-1837

Eighteen-year-old Sophy is entrusted to the care of her aunt while her father is on a diplomatic mission, and fearless and full of spunk, she soon has the entire family shaken up and revitalized.

Alexander Tate, temporarily blinded in a riding accident, retires to Collingbourne to rest and finds himself falling in love with Cassandra Steele, the unseen young woman who has volunteered to read to him during his convalescence, but their budding relationship is threatened when Cassandra, fearing Tate will find her looks lacking, begins to pull away.

An illustrated guide to battlefields and historical sites of the War of 1812, with colorful photographs, archival paintings, descriptions, and eyewitness accounts.

In 1805, twelve-year-old Jack Hoyton joins the Royal Navy and is posted aboard the HMS Defender, which is on blockade duty keeping Napoleon Bonaparte's ships from invading Great Britain. When the ship's crew is betrayed by a spy, it is up to Jack to rescue some of his crewmates and warn the Defender before it sails into a deadly trap.

Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.

Provides an overview of the era in which Jane Austen lived, including descriptions of the fashions, foreign affairs, social rank, transportation, candle etiquette, sanitation practices, and other related topics and explaining how they were reflected in Austen's novels.

Seventeen-year-old Agnes Wilkins dreams of being an Egyptologist and what it would be like to arrive in Cairo on the back of a camel to study Egyptian mummies, but she is stuck in 1817 London at the beginning of her debut season as a debutant.

In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.