How We Lived in Ancient Times: Meet everyday children throughout history

Maurice Baring - Lost Diaries: 'Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love''

Maurice Baring - An Outline of Russian Literature: 'Its peculiar and unique message to the world''

Margaret Cavendish - The Apocriphal Ladies: 'As fear frights tears from the Eyes, so grief doth send them forth''

Margaret Cavendish - Nature's Three Daughters - Part II (of II): 'The Ladies are admired, praised, adored, worshiped; all other women are despised''

Margaret Cavendish - Nature's Three Daughters - Part I (of II): "The Ladies are admired, praised, adored, worshiped; all other women are despised''

Margaret Cavendish - The Comical Hash: 'As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred''

Margaret Cavendish - The Presence: 'Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit''

Margaret Cavendish - The Sociable Companions: 'For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance'