1900 Stories

When Emily and her husband move into a mansion on Inwood Hill, she expects a quiet new beginning. The house was once a "reformation home" for troubled women. But the women weren't reformed. They were silenced. As she digs deeper, she begins to see them-glimpses of former performers in feathered headdresses and Vaudeville makeup, dancing between the walls, whispering warnings through the wallpaper. The past isn't haunting her. It's recruiting her. When the glamour and violence of the mansion's hidden history bleed into the present, she must uncover what happened to the women locked here before her... before the house decides she belongs to it too. A dark, atmospheric psychological horror blending feminist revenge, burlesque allure, and the ghosts of Vaudeville. Everything in this house was designed to correct her. But she wasn't built to be corrected.

At the close of the Victorian Era, society still expected middle-class women to be "the angels of the house," even as a select few strived to become something more. In this time of change, Emeline Evans dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when her father dies unexpectedly, Emeline sacrifices her ambitions and rescues her family from destitution by marrying John Dorr, a reserved lawyer who can provide for her family. John moves Emeline to the remote Missouri town of Labellum and into an unusual Gothic house where her sorrow and uneasiness edge toward madness. Furniture twists and turns before her eyes, people stare out at her from empty rooms, and the house itself conspires against her. The doctor diagnoses hysteria, but the treatment merely reinforces the house's grip on her mind. Emeline only finds solace after pursuing an opportunity to serve the poor as an unlicensed nurse. Yet in order to bring comfort to the needy she must secretly defy her husband, whose employer viciously hunts down and prosecutes unlicensed medical practitioners. Although women are no longer burned at the stake in 1900, disobedience is a symptom of psychological defect, and hysterical women must be controlled. Based on historical trends of the era and inspired by Victorian novels The Yellow Wallpaper, The Secret Garden, and Wuthering Heights, author Stephanie Carroll has taken women's empowerment in fiction to an all new level in this inspiring debut. "A White Room" was featured as a Notable Page Turner in Shelf Unbound Magazine and named 2013's Best Cross-Genre Title by USA Book News.

'Time lost is never gained.' He used to recite that to me. My brother always was a weakling. He never had any backbone, and I always thought him incapable of looking after himself. I remember he would pore over grandfather's old tomes of horrible poetry, like that cat one he was so fond of, and laugh for hours over that nonsense. I had the brains in the family, I must admit. Somehow though, he didn't turn out so bad in the end; the last thing he said to me was, "Look after her, brother, you must... promise me that." Sorry to say, I didn't. She didn't mean anything to me anyway. However, I feel that I am a poor judge. He always admired me, after all, and I cared not an ounce for him. So I leave it to you, to dissect his odious, empty character and decide if he was worthy of a brother's love after all. Unfortunately, if he was, I can no longer give it to him. But, of course, I care not a jot. After all, this is his story. Not mine.

This story is like UWMA But expect the unexpected CHARRR HAHA

1923. La vida y el Jazz corrían por todos lados. Sin embargo, entre risas y música, existía una vieja biblioteca.

This is about a 13 year old girl in the 1900's who woke up one day to a war. It was world war one.

En 1912, Jean a 18 ans, est journalier, et rencontre une jeune lilloise, Camille qui le dépasse en tous points, socialement, économiquement, intellectuellement, physiquement... C'est grâce à un bal auquel il n'aurait pas dû être, que son âme est captivée par l'insouciance de cette demoiselle. Après quelques correspondances, les deux opposés de tout un monde, se déclarent leur flamme mutuelle.

Rosaria Giovanniatzi has buried her last child. She can't bear to live one more day in her home country of Sicily. So her and her husband Alfonso pack there bags and make the voyage to Ellis Island. Will this really solve all over Rosaria problems? Will America really be all it's made out to be? Will Rosaria loose it all or gain everything?

A sad but bittersweet short story following a young couple, William and Margaret, and their troubles they face during World War 1.

A retelling of Godred's death, as told in the Bad Lookout story contained in Mountain Engines. Replacing horror with heartbreak. Meant to fit into a wider Railway Series/Thomas & Friends AU that I'm planning to write more material for. Content Warning: Character Death, Grief

Miss Jones is a princess, the next one in line for the throne. She has always been a wild child, sneaking out from the palace, going to all sorts of parties and such. Her poor lady-in-waiting Meria has to try and keep her out of trouble. But what would happen if Meria would want to get closer to Miss Jones?

Jenna Alison Rogers and Sandra Lou Rogers are sisters from a kind, middle class family in America during the early 1900s...Until their loving parents are murdered by a hit-man, hired by the business tycoon and mafia boss, Frank Nitto. During their time of sorrow and loss, a mysterious man named Jasper enters their lives and tells them a story that will give them a chance for retribution and set them onto a bloody path of revenge. Together with Jasper, who has shocking ties with Mr. Nitto and the Chicago Mafia, Sandra and Jenna must overcome the insurmountable and claw their way to the top of Chicago's Mafia in order to find Frank "The Enforcer" Nitto and avenge their parents' deaths. Their innocence must be discarded for survival as the sisters find themselves in the midst of The Organization. Excerpt: Jenna darling...Mommy and Daddy were," she hesitated, hands shaking as they held mine, "they were, killed by a very bad man.", my sister choked out at last. In that one moment, my world changed. Large, round tears flowed from my blue eyes and dripped off my chin, but I didn't know why I was crying. All I knew was that I felt a deep and excruciating pain. It felt as if everything was ripped out of me and I was left standing there, an empty and broken shell. From somewhere very far away I heard my older sister sobbing. With every tear that slid down my face, and every sob that racked Sandra's body, I felt something dark and foreign grow inside of me, consuming everything in its path. The edges of my vision darkened and my body went numb and cold. Like a candle that had been snuffed out, my knees buckled and my vision wavered one last time before everything went dark.

Emeline and Marie have been running for too long. There's no more getting accustomed to the lives they lead on every other day. They just want to stop running away and settle down. Romance, fantasy and suspense all take their toll while Emeline and Marie have to keep up a fight to save love, their lives, and their secret.

In the year 1905, Eliza Myers is forced into a horrible orphanage after the death of her father and poverty taking over her family. She must leave her family, friends and Edmund... who she desperately wanted to stay with, to help save her family.

"It's not right that we should have to fight for something so obviously right and just as having the vote but we must. Someone must!" Lady Anastasia Banks has lived her entire life thus far in a world where she may do as she likes, be it running around the countryside with her cousins or sitting quietly in a secluded corner, immersed in a book about the flora and fauna of her home county of Kent. But with her 'coming out' only a year away, Anastasia gradually realises her future will be quite different. And she's not sure if she'll like it. Thrust into the world of Edwardian high society and faced with an impossible choice, Anastasia comes to see that perhaps life isn't so simple and fair as she once thought. In her frustration, she comes across a group of ladies who promise to help her... to help all women.

I'm so so sorry for not updating this story in a while! The time to do so just hasn't been there and I will unfortunately not be able to continue on Mary's story for quite some time (bc of school and other stuff). I will continue writing Sunrise as soon as I can find the time. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Marleene "Mary" Brandon has lived in the big red house just outside of town for as long as she can remember. Seemingly out of the blue, her father gets a job at the town hospital and her parents decide to move to town, which means Mary has no other choice than going with them. Mary assists her father at the hospital, but she soon realizes that something is off about one of the doctors. The pale one, who no one seems to know anything about. What is he hiding? At the same time, Mary starts getting weird dreams. It's like her dreams are trying to warn her... This story is inspired by and based on the Twilight saga written by Stephenie Meyer, who owns the Cullen characters and Cynthia Brandon.

Ivy Hunter has moved to Birmingham for an escape to a new life away from London. With her dangerous past and secrets, tomboy Ivy tries to be a normal again. Until she meets the most menacing gang in Birmingham, the Peaky fuckin' Blinders. Will her life stay behind where she left it? or will it come back to haunt her. Read to find out! All feedback is kindly welcome.

Flora attends her friend Mattie's 16th birthday party, not realizing he has a special surprise planned out for her. (first person - early 1900's) Hey there~ This is the first story I've ever published and the first time I've ever used wattpad, so I'm not too sure how this will go. I don't take any of my work seriously, and I'm not expecting way too much in terms of views or comments but I'd love to know your thoughts and any feedback you might have! This is a fairly simple short story separated into mini chapters about a girl going to a friend's birthday party. It takes place in the early-ish 1900s which is a lazy excuse on my end to make the story more interesting (I tried making it sort of historically accurate!). Hope you enjoy reading ♡