

The Black Familiars is a novel written by Lucy Bethia Walford and first published in 1903. The story is set in the English countryside and follows the lives of two women, Mrs. Mallory and Miss Fallowfield, who are neighbors and close friends. Mrs. Mallory is a wealthy widow who...

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good...

The Black Familiars is a novel written by Lucy Bethia Walford and published in 1903. The story follows the life of a young woman named Hester, who is orphaned at a young age and sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the English countryside. Hester is a strong-willed and independent...

