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I Capture the Castle
By Dodie Smith
F SMITH
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra, who lives with her family in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle, strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love.

Cold Comfort Farm
By Stella Gibbons
F GIBBONS
When Flora Poste, a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England, is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set things right.

The Scarlet Pimpernel
By Baroness Emmusak Orczy
F ORCZY
In 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, an English aristocrat known to be an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who, with a small band of dedicated friends, undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine.

Cranford
By Elizabeth Gaskell
F GASKELL
A series of sketches describes the "adventures" of middle-aged ladies in the quiet country village of Cranford in the 1830's. Despite their poverty, residents of the village are kind, decent, and thoroughly proper. This witty and poignant comedy is told through the eyes of a young woman who befriends the elderly ladies of Cranford.

Anne of Green Gables
BY L. M. Montgomery
YA F MONTGOMERY
Anne, a mischievous, red-haired, eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. This is the beginning of a series that follows Anne as she grows up.