Books with author Margaret Bennett

Living in Vienna, Dory receives a letter from her best friend’s orphans begging her to defend them against their evil guardian, the Earl of Harcourt. Dory knows she must help the three Rundell children. But how is she going to convince their haughty guardian to unbend enough to listen to reason. To further complicate matters, his dark, brooding good looks have invaded her dreams.Harcourt’s ordered life has received a set back since he’s been appointed guardian to the Rundell brood. Moreover, he finds himself the target of a prankster. But his life becomes even more complicated when Miss Dorcus Kenworthy arrives and spares with him over the future of his three wards. Then, there is his growing attraction for the lovely diplomat’s daughter.

When Winifred Manston’s beloved father dies without an heir, Freddie, as she is known to most, soon finds life intolerable. Her cruel and greedy guardian, the current Baron Manston, tries to force her to marry his son in order to gain her inheritance. With little choice but to flee her home, she disguises herself as a young lad. But when she finds her only chance of reaching her former governess, who resides in France, is to stowaway on a smuggler’s sloop, she ends up having to trust a gentleman she suspects is a spy. Julian Braunstone, Viscount Treversham, is headed for France to rescue one of Wellington’s agents who’s been wounded and trapped just outside of Paris. But when Julian discovers the intriguing and secretive “Freddie Smith” hiding in his cabin aboard a smuggler’s sloop, he is forced to alter his plans, and help the young woman reach her governess. With a growing attraction for the delectable young woman, Julian leads Freddie, her governess, and a wounded agent through the French countryside with Napoleon's soldiers intent in finding them before they reach the coast. And if they do manage to safely reach England, how will he protect Freddie from her cruel guardian?

As a poor relation and well past the age to marry, Chloe Woodforde is a companion for her elderly great aunt, who is an eccentric tippler. At a country house party, Chloe accidentally keeps blundering upon Viscount Camden during his clandestine activities while walking her aunt’s Yorkshire terrier. Despite knowing he is far above her reach, her attraction grows for Camden as she sees past his harsh demeanor and his reputation as a rake. Camden, an agent for the crown, has been recruited to prevent stolen documents from falling into enemy hands. But circumstances throw the lovely spinster into his path, he’s drawn to Chloe’s honesty and integrity and finds himself seeking her company, that is when he is not rescuing her from falling into disastrous situations while walking with her silly mutt.

Emily is a country bred miss and a misfit in the haute ton of Regency London While picking berries one day, she overhears two men plotting to kill Gabriel, the Viscount Lindemann. Fearing for her life, she flees, running through the woods, and encounters the Viscount himself. Mistaking him for one of her pursers, she welds a large stick and nearly unmans him. Home from fighting Napoleon, Gabriel is forced to attend a house party arranged by his cousins Cecil Caldwell and his sister Deborah, who are rusticating to avoid their creditors and possibly jail when he encounters Emily. He invites Emily to join the house party, which she does with the intent to discover the Viscount’s enemy. Emily and Gabriel find themselves in a compromising situation. Gabriel is more than willing to accept an engagement with Emily. She, on the other hand, is mortified, feeling that her hoydenish ways have ensnared the Viscount. Unfortunately, the engagement puts Emily’s life in danger and Gabriel must find the proof he needs to banish his cousins.

Much to her chagrin, Lady Gwendolen stands a head taller than most of her potential suitors, putting those brave enough to dance with her at eye level to her bosom. Despite her embarrassing height, the attraction of her large dowry often makes Gwen the target of unwanted attention, with one exception, the roguish Earl of Stafford. But dare she trust her heart to him. Colin, the Earl of Stafford is well over six feet and is drawn to the tall, svelte Lady Gwendolen. Her open manners and knowledge of horses make her unlike any woman he has ever met. But around him, the lovely damsel is as skittish as one of his racehorses. Yet, he’s determined to find a way to win her trust and, thus, pursues her with the single mindedness he’s never had for another woman.

The Honorable Rosalind Wensley enlists a smuggling gang to rescue soldiers who are injured while fighting Napoleon and bring them back to England. But the rescue operation is threatened when the Earl of Melvyrn shows up, looking for a spy ring. Now she must hide her identity as the youth who works for the smugglers from the Earl's prying eyes.Melvyrn, on assignment for the War Office, infiltrates the smuggling gang to locate an old man in France who possibly aids a spy ring. But when Melvyrn tries to befriend the lad who acts as a translator, the smugglers won't let him get close. Melvyrn also is intrigued by the lad's resemblance to Miss Wensley, and suspects a family connection. However when Melvyrn discovers Rosalind is the lad, he resolves to put a stop to her nefarious activities for her own safety. Rosalind, however, has other plans.

Jackson Thomas, a.k.a. Jacks, witnesses one of his friends being harassed by a neighborhood gangbanger. With an older brother already serving time for simply associating with the wrong people, Jacks knows the score. But what can one guy do? Jacks convinces his friends to form a crew that helps its members to stay out of trouble. Then Jacks’ new neighbor, Angelo Betterman, who goes by Gelo and has a never-there father. Events heat up as Jacks and his friends find themselves involved in keeping Peanut, the smallest of the crew members, from a bullying gangbanger, saving an old lady from a mugging in an alley, recovering a stolen television, and finally banishing a project drug dealer. While Jacks’ adventures seemingly resolve themselves in ordinary fashion, a providential element permeates the action whenever Gelo is around. In the end, when Gelo vanishes with his father as apparent rent skippers, Jacks concludes that Gelo is, in fact, his guardian angel. (108 pages)

Marek Bennett's comics adaptation of this actual Civil War memoir brings to life the dry humor and grim conviction of teacher-turned-soldier Freeman Colby. Fiercely proud of his Granite State heritage, Freeman Colby bows to no one - not the rowdy students of his rural one-room schoolhouse, not the high-handed Union army officers in town, and certainly not those Rebel traitors causing all that trouble down South. But Colby needs work, and his ne'er-do-well little brother Newton needs looking after, so the boys enlist with a new regiment promising three years' pay and plenty of adventure in a growing war...

1863: The continuing saga of a Yankee schoolteacher in the Union Army: Young Freeman Colby joined the 39th Massachusetts Regiment in search of “better returns,” but now he just wants to survive the war and return home to his friends & family in New England! Marching deeper into the war-torn heart of Virginia, he crosses paths with countless fellow survivors — widows, poets, volunteer nurses, refugee children, ragged soldiers, brave mothers striving to deliver their families from slavery… This wide-ranging graphic novel weaves together their stories with Colby’s actual letters home, laying bare the day-to-day human struggles that shaped one of the most consequential years in American history.

"The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters.”A collection of enchanting cat tales and personal pet stories written in the Victoria era by world renown British Egyptologist Margaret Benson.Meet Persis, the passionate Persian who loved praise and admiration, Alexander the cat who is ever ready for a nap, Mentu the mysterious train-riding kitten, Taffy the affectionate and aristocratic collie, Ra the pompous blue Persian, and Confucius the self-possessed Chow dog.Told with observational accuracy and compassion, these animal stories depict the lives and characters of the cats, birds and dogs that she surrounded herself with throughout her life. A talented artist and painter, she made oils of the animals she knew and loved. “Everyone who is intimate with cats should read Miss Benson’s book … it is evident from the title of the book that she has perceived that cats have souls, and that she knows something of the nature of the feline soul.” - New York Times review, 1901.This classic collection of cat and other stories about the animal human bond is perfect for cat lovers, Anglophiles and fans of Victorian English culture.

Canadas Atlantic FolkloreFolklife Series has been awarded the Canadian Historical Association Regional History Certificate of merit in Recognition of an Excellent Contribution to the Development of History. Canadas Atlantic FolkloreFolklife Series has been created to record and help preserve a way of life unique to the Atlantic seaboard. Contributors to the series come from all walks of lifefrom the proud fisherman to the academic. The aim of the series is to bring to the general reader, as well as to those with a professional interest, an appreciation of a community and/or individual world view which is incredibly unique.