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Images and some text from The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 1904/5.
Individual images may or may not be out of copyright here; I cannot guarantee that I have it right, sorry. Photographs taken before 1945 in England by British citizens and not published in other European countries are out of copyright. Engravings and drawings that were commissioned (works for hire) are also out of copyright, as are typographic elements. Other items are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the creator, generally.
Title: The Leisure Hour
City: London
Date: 1904
Total items: 17
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0573-the-deceiver-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden]")
The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden
Grania’s face was full of tenderness, and her eyes seemed to plead for pardon. The hands she held out to Verney trembled.
“Verney Drake did not see his sister-in-law till late in the morning following the excited arrival of the evening before.
He was standing with all the weariness of reaction after stirred emotion, looking at the blackened shell which was all that remained of the place he had called home. [..]
Then he heard the rustle of her dress, and turning saw her coming slowly over the blackened débris towards him.
The moment he saw her he was conscious of some change in her, something more powerful than the fire that had set a torch to her nature. He saw by the weariness of her eyes that she had kept vigils, and by the redness of their rims that she had wept [more...] [$]
![[picture: Charles Dickens in 1830.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0547-Charles-Dickens-in-1830-q75-169x200.jpg "[picture: Charles Dickens in 1830.]")
![[picture: Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0552-Gads-Hill-Place-q50-292x200.jpg "[picture: Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)]")
Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)
Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. [more...] [$]
Images and some text from The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 1904/5.
Individual images may or may not be out of copyright here; I cannot guarantee that I have it right, sorry. Photographs taken before 1945 in England by British citizens and not published in other European countries are out of copyright. Engravings and drawings that were commissioned (works for hire) are also out of copyright, as are typographic elements. Other items are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the creator, generally.
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![[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/440-Tyninghame-q75-313x200.jpg "[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]")
![[picture: Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-125x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page]")
