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There and Now
Read by Nancy Halper
Alice Brown
In Out of the Closet: A Collection of Early LGBTQ+ Fiction
This is a collection of 22 LGBTQ+ stories published between 1841-1923, covering a wide span of authors, genres, and literary traditions. Som…
VIII (Marian Halcombe)
Read by Ruth Golding
Wilkie Collins
In The Woman in White
The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 18…
The Priceless Pearl
Read by Nancy Halper
Alice Duer Miller
Pearl Leavitt is habitually fired from her New York City office jobs for being "too beautiful" and thereby causing all the men to …
WHERE IS HALSEY?
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Mary Roberts Rinehart
In The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 19…
For a Cynic
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Camilla
Read by Stefan Von Blon
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Stolen
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Janet D. Wheeler
In Billie Bradley and Her Classmates
Billie and her chums come to the rescue of several little children who have broken through the ice. There is the mystery of a lost invention…
Dotage
Read by Suzanne Carol
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Helping Nancy Ellen and Robert to Establish a Home
Read by Veronica Jenkins
Gene Stratton-Porter
In A Daughter of the Land
Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …
'The Author to Her Book,' by Anne Bradstreet
Read by thowe
Anne Bradstreet
In 17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women
This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been c…
Deborah Speaks
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
Chloe
Read by Christie Crews
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
18 - A Reading List
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Jennie Hall
In Viking Tales
Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)
Miss Nancy Sawyer
Read by Bridget Gaige
Edward Eggleston
In The Hoosier Schoolmaster
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…
The Question
Read by nbvoices
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
X. The Great Understanding
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Sax Rohmer
In The Yellow Claw
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…
Out of the Old House, Nancy by Will Carleton
Read by Craig Franklin
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 2)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
Fragment
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Anne Brontë
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…