The complete online text of Mrs. Skagg's Husbands by Bret Harte.

Francis Brett Harte (1837-1902), known as Bret Harte, an American poet and fiction writer who specialized in local color and regional stories, set the fashion in fiction for a number of writers in the era following the Civil War. Bret Harte, born in Alba...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Bret Harte was the first Pacific slope writer to gain an international reputation for his work. As a deft observer of character and conditions, he introduced to a worldwide audience the picturesque life of mid-nineteenth-century northern California. Yet...

Terrorism makes him irritable He prefers honey and yoghurt to meat He relies on pills to help him sleep AN ASTONISHING interview with the wife of Osama bin Laden reveals his attempts to manage his complicated domestic life while planning his...

There has been a wonderful consensus in a cynical nation that Diane Blood's latest pregnancy constitutes a heart-warming piece of news. Pictured beaming as she hugs her first son Liam, Mrs Blood announced on behalf of her late husband Stephen that he "would have...