Explore a rich slice of Victorian life and feeling in Jane Rowley’s Scrap Book: Sixty Years' Gleanings.
This anthology collects poetry, reflective musings, and short pieces that reveal the moral questions, loyalties, and daily wonders of its era. Through verse, prose, and occasional songs, the book invites readers to pause, ponder, and savor humane insights and quiet courage.
The selections flow from intimate moments of love, loss, and faith to broader reflections on friendship, duty, and society. You’ll encounter tender portraits, moral meditations, and historical vignettes that illuminate how people spoke, prayed, and hoped across a wide span of years. The tone stays thoughtful and accessible, never distant, with a focus on character and conscience.
- A mix of poems, short essays, and meditations on friendship, virtue, and resilience.
- Passages that reflect on family, marriage, patriotism, and everyday decency.
- Epistolary voices and quotes that carry old-world wisdom into modern readers’ hands.
- A sense of history and moral clarity that makes each piece feel timeless.
Ideal for readers who enjoy reflective poetry, historical curios, and pocket-size moral thought from a bygone era.