Short stories by Mary Deasy
Also wrote under the pseudonym Clare Darcy Widely considered the best of those inspired by Georgette Heyer, Darcy wrote a number of regency romances with intelligent, sparkling heroines. [Note- very little info online about her I tagged her demographic as Irish because she had a lot of quotes about Ireland, and her name is Irish]
Listing 3 stories.
A woman dealing with conflicting emotions resorts to deliberately putting herself in danger to learn to value the life she's been given - but these unorthodox methods leave her more desperate than ever.
Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.
In a small rural American town in the late 1800s, a woman's eldest son is accused of committing murder. She takes her younger children to watch him be executed, hoping they will not follow a similar path.