Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.

Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer’s best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of midcentury America traces the decline of the fortunate and the search for redemption…

Novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the people and places, the pleasures and the heartaches she has known in her life. From her idyllic childhood in small-town Mississippi to her…

In this charming collection of letters, Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope shares her thoughts and experiences with family and friends over a period of several years in the mid-19th century. From her…

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…

The Southern Woman, Spencer’s first collection in almost 15 years, restores to print the author’s most masterful stories and novellas, including The Light in the Piazza, as well as 10…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…

Debates about methods of supporting language development and academic skills of deaf or hard-of-hearing children have waxed and waned for more than 100 years: Will using sign language interfere with…