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1834-10-11
This article is about someone’s experiences with weather….. They felt like the weather was not extremely cold or severely hot after living in England for “two summers and a third winter.” She says that there was never any…

According to the House of Mirth, Lily used the stock market on Wall Street in order to pay for her debts, which generated from playing bridge. In the novel, it turns out that the money that she earned came from Trenor who came up with the idea of her…

Selden and Carry start out in Monte Carlo in the beginning of Book 2. This image shows Monte Carlo and the casino in Monte Carlo. Here is where all of the relationship drama occurs within the novel. This casino and Monte Carlo in general are a…

This article, published in 1905, discusses the transformation of the Long Island railroad from using steam to being electrically-operated. Trains, during the time period of The House of Mirth, were the largest and fastest transportation systems that…

This excerpt of The Favorites of Flora shows a woman losing her house and her possessions. The reader does not have a sense of the young lady’s fortune. The young lady’s home, more specifically, is a cottage much like Mr and Mrs. Temple’s. According…

The author’s, Abel Bowen, main purpose for publishing this particular work was so that he could provide a field guide to the citizen of Boston and to a traveler. His goal was to give the person a complete detail of the city so that he or she can have…

This item is a book about the past and the present (with respect to the published year of this book, 1912) of Monaco and Monte Carlo – from the same timeline as the novel. The item is written by an English photographer and Journalist Adolphe Smith.…

This primal book proves that there in fact is a grave for Charlotte Temple. "Crossing the path, and near to Broadway, is a large brown tomb-stone, lying upon the surface of the ground. Near the head is an open cavity where orignally was a marble…

The excerpt from a magazine describing new members being inducted into the church of many cities. There are two churches that inducted members in Memphis. It describes briefly of the importance of taking the church’s mission and spreading it locally…

This article is about a little boy who was killed in the hovel that he lived in with his family. However after he was killed, he could see the light and the angels that were taking him to heaven. This article reminds me of Charlotte Temple because…