What could be more boring than provincial secular society? What's going on in the provinces? A new neighbor has arrived - this is already an event, conversat...

Young Virginia yawned in advance, getting ready for a small provincial town. What could be waiting for her there: rural fashionistas in dresses that were wor...

Father has decided to marry Phyllis to a man she doesn’t like at all. Now she has exactly two weeks to find another groom. And the girl is not at all going t...

What could be more innocent than a charitable boarding house for young ladies? However, under the roof of a seemingly respectable educational institution, tr...

It happens that all the best things in life go not to you, but to someone else. It’s doubly offensive if this someone is your frivolous twin sister. This was...

Susan Shelton is far from the most brilliant bride around. Even by modest provincial standards, her fortune is too insignificant to count on any successful m...

There were only a few days left until August, the heat gradually subsided, and housewives made apricot jam and baked raspberry pies. Sweet smells floated and...

Catherine Haddon, who works at the Hunters and Pig Inn, dreams of a quiet life: she would like to find a friend and take up painting, but instead she finds h...