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A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Did you ever contemplate a carreer as a journalist, or to get married? Do you have problems with your children, parents, or colleagues? Do y…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Favor of Kings
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Mary Hastings Bradley
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…
The Marquis de Villemer
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George Sand
Caroline is a very intelligent woman. She received a good convent education until her father lost his fortune in a failed venture and died s…
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
University of Oxford Podcasts
Story Hour Readers: Third Year
Read by Sibella Denton
Ida Coe and Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon
Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…
Summer
Read by Robin Cotter
Edith Wharton
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. …
The Heart of Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
(Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women worki…
Winifred
Read by Charles Souby
Charles Souby
Following the death of his wife Rachel, Rayleigh Stern spent the next six months in therapy group, trying to find ways to cope. Having lost …
Putting the Most Into Life
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Booker T. Washington
The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
Lady Anna
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Anthony Trollope
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…
Taken at the Flood
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…
The Heart of the New Thought
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A new book of original essays by this gifted woman dealing with The New Thought in practice. It deals with the practice of New Thought in ou…
The Marriage of William Ashe
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
William Ashe, an up and coming politician, impulsively marries Kitty, a young, flighty and strange girl who, far from supporting her husband…
The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh
Dramatised by Neville Teller. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, …
The Ghost Beyond the Gate
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only da…
A Group of Noble Dames
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Thomas Hardy
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
Stepping Heavenward (version 2)
Read by Theresa L. Downey
Elizabeth Prentiss
How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…
Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
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Dexter C. Bloomer
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …