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Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Read by Amelia Chesley


Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

A Lady of Quality

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

Agnes Grey (Version 3)

Read by Libby Gohn


Anne Brontë


Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…

The Late Tenant

Read by Kirsten Wever


Louis Tracy


This is primarily a romance. It is one of the earliest works of the British journalist and prolific author, Louis Tracy, publishing under th…

Old Hampshire Vignettes

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker


Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …

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…

Neighbors

Read by Anne Fletcher


Florence Morse Kingsley


The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conc…

Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

Briarwood Girls

Read by Linda Velwest


Julia Lestarjette Glover


Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda V…

The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading)

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Amelia E. Barr


The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in …

Riceyman Steps

Read by Anthony Ogus


Arnold Bennett


Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…

Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 002

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Various


Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…

Pollyanna (version 4)

Read by thestorygirl


Eleanor H. Porter


Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a le…

Unknown to History

Read by Tanica


Charlotte Mary Yonge


During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protest…

A Little Maid of Province Town

Read by Arielle Lipshaw


Alice Turner Curtis


Plucky eight year old Anne Nelson, living in Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, is determined to bring the Revolutionary War to an end so …

Desperate Remedies

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Thomas Hardy


Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

Mademoiselle Ixe

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker


This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscr…

The Shuttle

Read by tabithat


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She al…

Blotted Out

Read by Howard Skyman


Elisabeth Sanxay Holding


The story about a young man who immigrates to the US and is contacted by a mysterious woman. - Summary by Howard Skyman

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