Grace Livingston Hill

Grace Livingston Hill has been recommending good books for as long as she's been writing. Judging by the books on the shelves of her many characters, Grace herself must have been well read. How many of these have you read?

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TITLE	AUTHOR	GLH BOOK
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Read the e-text	Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Published in 1858, this collection of essays are one-sided dialogues between the author and the tenants of a boarding house on a variety of subjects.	The Christmas Bride
Baker's Livy THE HISTORY OF ROME BY TITUS LIVIUS. 2 vols.	Author: Livy Translated from the original, with notes and illustrations, by George Baker Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1839	Marcia Schuyler
Daniel Quorm (and His Religious Notions)	Author: Rev. Mark Guy Pearse New York: Nelson & Phillips Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, 1876 There is also a "second series" of the same title.	A Daily Rate
The Deserted Village Read the e-text	Author: Oliver Goldsmith This poem, which first appeared in 1770, is included in "The Complete Poetic Works of Oliver Goldsmith" by Austin Dobson, Hon. LL.D. Edin.	Marcia Schuyler
Epictetus The Discourses	Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher, who spent most of his life in Rome. His studen,l Arrian, wrote The Discourses to recount Epictetus' teachings.	Marcia Schuyler
Ivanhoe	Author: Sir Walter Scott	The Honor Girl
John Halifax, Gentleman Read the e-text	Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik The tale of an orphan boy who grows up to become wealthy and powerful.	The Christmas Bride
The Lady of the Lake	Author: Sir Walter Scott This is a narrative poem first published in 1810.	The Honor Girl
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 Read the e-text	Author: James Fenimore Cooper This epic was first published in January 1826, and was one of the most popular novels of its time.	Marcia Schuyler
Lorna Doone Read the e-text	Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore The romance of a man who falls in love with the daughter of the outlaws who murdered his father. Published in 1869.	The Christmas Bride Beauty for Ashes
The Madonna of the Tubs	Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Grace read from this book on November 28, 1895 at her aunt & uncle's church in Mays Landing, NJ for a Temperance Program sponsored by the Christian Endeavor Society.	The Pansy, 1896
Macaulay’s “Essays” Read the e-text	Author; Thomas Babington Macauly a noted Victorian scholar, Macaulay wrote volumes of essays throughout his lifetime on a variety of historical and literary topics.	The Christmas Bride
Marshall's Life of Columbus	Heather emailed us and suggested this: A very famous The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (sometimes referred to as Life of Columbus) was published by Washington Irving in 1828. John Marshall was an American who fought in the Revolutionary War and eventually served in the Supreme Court, dying in 1835 (Irving died 1859). But the interesting point is that both Marshall and Irving published multivolume works on the life of George Washington, in 1805-07 (resissued as a condensed version in '32) and 1855-59 respectively. My theory is that in jotting down the list of books that Marcia studies, Hill either wrote Columbus when she meant Washington or confused Irving and Marshall. Two biographers writing in roughly the same period could quite easily be confused, particularly since Hill's story only mentions the title and does not deal with the content of the work.	Marcia Schuyler
The Mysteries of the Human Heart	Do you have information on this book? Email US	Marcia Schuyler

The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance Interspersed With Some Pieces of Poetry Read the e-text	Author: Ann Ward Radcliffe This Gothic romance was written in 1794.	Marcia Schuyler
Paradise Lost Read the e-text	Author: John Milton This epic poem about Adam and Eve was first published in 1667	Marcia Schuyler
The Pilgrim's Progress Read the e-text	Author: John Bunyan This work was first published in 1678, and is readily available today in modern English versions. However, I much prefer the original in all its Olde-English glory!	Marcia Schuyler
The Pioneers Read the e-text	Author: James Fenimore Cooper Cooper's first book to feature Natty Bumppo was published in 1823.	Marcia Schuyler
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Read the e-text	Author: Samuel Johnson Cassell & Company, 1889	Marcia Schuyler
Robinson Crusoe Read the e-text	Author: Daniel DaFoe Published in 1719, this novel tells the tale of a shipwrecked man’s life on a deserted island.	The Christmas Bride

Rollin's History	Author: Charles Rollin, French Historian Rollin's History(The Ancient History, ten volumes (1730-1738)	Marcia Schuyler
Romance of the Forest Read the e-text	Author: Ann Radcliffe A three volume novel, first published in 1791. This was Radcliffe's first major popular success.	Marcia Schuyler
The Scottish Chiefs A Romance in Five Volumes Read the e-text	Author: Jane Porter London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1810. 5 volumes.	Marcia Schuyler
The Sky Pilot Read the e-text	Author: Ralph Connor "This story is of the people of the Foothill Country; of those men of adventurous spirit, who left homes of comfort, often of luxury, because of the stirring in them to be and to do some worthy thing; and of those others who, outcast from their kind, sought to find in these valleys, remote and lonely, a spot where they could forget and be forgotten."	A Voice in the Wilderness
The Spy Read the e-text	Author: James Fenimore Cooper Seems like this is the one Grace meant, since Marcia and David already have two other Coopers in the library. This the first novel Cooper published under his own name.	Marcia Schuyler
Thaddeus of Warsaw Read the e-text	Author: Jane Porter London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, 1803. 4 volumes. Thaddeus Sobieski, after the fall of his devoted country [Poland] and the ruin of all his hopes, flies to England for refuge; and the story, which the author has thus interwoven with historical fact, exhibits some situations of considerable interest. The meeting of two friends, between whom a misunderstanding had been created by the unworthy practices of an interested agent, is described with peculiar propriety; and dignity of character is well preserved in the immediate and unreserved credit with which the mutual explanations are received. —Monthly Review, 2nd ser. 43 (Feb 1804): 214–15.	Marcia Schuyler
The Vicar of Wakefield Read the e-text	Author: Oliver Goldsmith London: Woodfall and Kinder Angel Court, Skinner Street, 1842 Grace's husband, Rev. Frank Hill, led a boys' group at the Wakefield Presbyterian Church (near Philadelphia, PA), and they called themselves "The Vicar of Wakefield Club" for a time.	Marcia Schuyler