
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 - March 10, 1919) was a British novelist She was born on March 29, 1831 in Ulverston, Lancashire, England as Amelia Edith Huddleston to Reverend William Huddleston. In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they migrated...




The Strawberry Handkerchief: A Romance Of The Stamp Act is a historical romance novel written by Amelia E. Barr and first published in 1908. The story is set in colonial America during the Stamp Act crisis of 1765, a time of political unrest and rebellion against British rule...

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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...




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