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Home of the Bible: What I Saw and Heard in Palestine

Travelogue of Palestine visiting biblical sites—Jordan, Calvary, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jacob's Well—blending vivid local sketches, customs, and accounts including Armenian massacres.
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Talks upon Practical Subjects

Excerpt from an 1895 health manual offering practical advice on ventilation, fresh air, bedding, and household hygiene to improve family and child health.
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The Royal Road; or, Taking Him at His Word

Marion Harland excerpt: a Brooklyn prayer-meeting portrays a weary pastor, routine services, and a striking stranger whose hymn awakens genuine devotional longing.
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Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister

Marion Harland excerpt (1894). A station luncheon introduces March Gilchrist, a traveling family, a disabled girl, and social manners, class contrasts, and domestic life.
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Mrs. Mary Virginia Terhune

Selections from A Woman of the Century (1893), brief biographical sketches of leading American women—authors, reformers, temperance activists—edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.

Counting-Room and Cradle

Essay argues women’s primary vocation is motherhood and homemaking, warning that full-time careers often undermine child-rearing and family life and urging prudent choice.
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More Than Kin

1892 short story "More Than Kin" by Marion Harland. A village scene follows a young woman's drive to the station, exposing social vanity, gossip, and family tensions.
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The Story of Mary Washington

Biography of Mary Ball Washington, tracing her childhood in colonial Virginia, family lineage, social life, and church connections that shaped her character.
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His Great Self

Excerpt from Marion Harland's His Great Self: a tableau of colonial Virginia gentry—Madam Byrd, Mrs. Carter, Colonel Byrd and Evelyn—discussing marriage, status, and domestic life.
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Women as Human Beings

1892 essays: critique of Harrison's administration and Marion Harland's call for women's full integration into education, professions, and civic life including suffrage.
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With the Best Intentions: A Midsummer Episode

Newlyweds Clara and Emmett enjoy a blissful honeymoon on Mackinac Island. An unexpected meeting with Emmett's former friends brings social tension that tests Clara's composure.
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Domestic Infelicity of Literary Women

Shaler: slavery stunted Southern development; Reconstruction and Northern commerce now rebuild its economy. Marion Harland: professional women writers risk domestic strain and marital discord.
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The Defamation of Charlotte Bronté

April 1890 North American Review issue: essays on naval discipline, literary controversies over Charlotte Brontë, and a debate over Lyman Beecher's alleged teaching of infant damnation.
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