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Katja Labonté

S4E3—The Beginning of the Time for Action: MEN OF IRON (1891)
S3E10—They Don't Care a Straw What I Do: DAISY MILLER (1878)
S2E15—Blessed Is the Shame That Purifies: THE LEAVENWORTH CASE (1878)
S2E14—Eyes Can Only See the Obvious: SILVER SANDALS (1916)
S2E7—The "Buts" Which Really Make Us Live: A COUNTESS FROM CANADA (1911)
S1E11—The Past Is Present Every Day: Season One in Review
S1E9—This Is Not Acting; It Is Living: A BORN ARISTOCRAT(1898)
S1E8—When You Look at Life with Your Eyes Open: THE WHEAT PRINCESS (1905)
S1E7—An Earthquake of the Soul: TRAVERS (1907)
S1E6—Love Is Better and Mightier Than Force: BEN-HUR (1880)
S1E5—Education Is Responsible for a !@#?*! Lot of Ignorance: KEEPING UP WITH LIZZIE (1911)
S1E4—Sometimes, Even Today, There Is the Chance Samaritan: HER FIRST APPEARANCE (1892)
S1E3—Harmless Lunatics Out for a Holiday: MISS BAYLE'S ROMANCE (1887)
S1E2—Caught in the Mesh of the Modern Whirligig: POOR DEAR THEODORA! (1920)
S1E1—There Is Nothing So Absolutely Clear-Sighted as Selfishness: PINK AND WHITE TYRANNY (1871)

Amanda G. Stevens

S4E2—A Carefully Prepared Chaos: THE NOTTING HILL MYSTERY (1862)
S3E12—When You Call Me that, Smile!: THE VIRGINIAN (1902)
S3E6—Aye, in My Heart of Hearts: FAR ABOVE RUBIES (1899)
S3E2—O Henry, O Henry, How Lovely Are Thy Stories
S2E18—I Have Been Visited by the Angel of Music: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1911)
S2E16—In a State of Perpetual Contradiction: THE MOONSTONE (1868)

Gwendolyn Gage

S4E4—Saved from the Scrap-Heap of Departing Races: JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOWSTONE (1902)
S3E4—High Living Kills More than It Cures: THE GILDED AGE (1873)
S2E3—Bright Garments Frequently Cover Deep Wounds: QUO VADIS (1896)

Lisa Ard

S3E8—A Mission Above Matrimony: A BACHELOR MAID (1899)

Erin Anfinson-Pirani

S2E9—Mere Man Must Yield or Run: HER PRAIRIE KNIGHT (1907)

Anne Skelly

S4E4—Saved from the Scrap-Heap of Departing Races: JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOWSTONE (1902)

Daniel Meredith

S3E7—He Had Found His Manhood: FOR JACINTA (1907)

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