Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, Volume 2, by Shearjashub Spooner. ©1853, published 1880.

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The Home; or, Life in Sweden, by Fredrika Bremer, translated by Mary Howitt. Published 1853.

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Strife and Peace, by Fredrika Bremer. Translated by Mary Howitt. Published 1853.

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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects; and Curiosities of Art, by Shearjashub Spooner. Originally published 1853, this is the 1888 edition.

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The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. Durivage. Published 1853. Forty-seven short stories from a popular (and prolific) contributor to literary magazines. Durivage (1814-1881) also edited a “Popular Cyclopedia of History.”

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The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems, by Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow. A self-published book of poetry from 1853. A bit naïve, a bit religious, but somehow compelling for its glimpse of a matron’s life in the mid-1800’s.