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Jean Webster
Jean Webster (1876-1916)

playwright, journalist, humorist

  • Vassar College, State University of New York at Fredonia

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Daddy-Long-Legs
When Patty Went to College
Dear Enemy
Just Patty
Jerry Junior
The wheat princess
The Four Pools Mystery
Jerry
Daddy Long-Legs (Watermill)
Much ado about Peter
Jean Webster, best novels
Gift from the Blue Veil
Patty Ja Priscilla
Daddy Long-Legs : a Comedy in Four Acts :
Amour et mensonges sous le soleil d'Italie
Bir Genclik Masali
Daddy-Long-Legs - Dear Enemy
Dear Emily
Aba arokh ha-raglayim
Malgwallyangi P'at'i
B'ab'a ling dar'az
Ralph Delahaye Paine
Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925)

journalist, politician, biographer, humorist, essayist

  • Yale University

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The ships and sailors of old Salem
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812
In Zanzibar
The old merchant marine
The ships and sailors of old Salem
The fighting fleets
Ships across the sea
The head coach
The Old Merchant Marine
College years
The First Yale unit
The head coach
Fight for a Free Sea
The Book of Buried Treasure
Old Merchant Marine
The greater America
Roads of adventure
The old merchant marine
The Old Merchant Marine (A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors)
The Book of Buried Treasure - Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons etc,
The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812
The Judgments Of The Sea
The Old Merchant Marine
Joshua Barney
The book of buried treasure
The Ships And Sailors Of Old Salem
Of the Nature of Things
The Fight For A Free Sea - A Chronicle Of The War Of 1812
Lost ships and lonely seas
Ships Across The Sea
Cadet of the Black Star Line
The Old Merchant Marine Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
Joshua Barney, a forgotten hero of blue water
The Fight for a Free Sea
Privateers of '76
The fight for a free sea
Lost Ships and Lonely Seas
The Old Merchant Marine, a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
The book of pirate treasures
The Fight for a Free Sea (A Chronicle of the War of 1812)
The Corsair in the war zone
The Fighting Fleets
The Call Of The Offshore Wind
The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors
The steam-shovel man
Sons of Eli
Colonial ships and sailors
The ships and sailors of Old Salem, Massachusetts
The old merchant marines
The ships and sailors of old Salem
The praying skipper
The adventures of Captain O'Shea
J. Archibald McKackney
The call of the offshore wind
The Book of Pirate Treasures
The book of buried treasure
Campus days
Frigate and clipper
J. Archibald McKackney (collector of whiskers)
The judgments of the sea
The wrecking master
A cadet of the Black Star line
Blackbeard, buccaneer
First down, Kentucky!
The old merchant marine
The wall between
The stroke oar
The long road home
The twisted skein
The fight for a free sea
Frigate and clipper
The fugitive freshman
The Dragon and the Cross
Comrades of the rolling ocean
The old merchant marine
The praying skipper and other stories
The Penfold adventure
Midshipman Wickham
The story of Martin Coe