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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 …

Eline Vere

Read by Carola Janssen


Louis Couperus


De 19e eeuwse klassieker Eline Vere speelt in de gegoede kringen van Den Haag. Eline is een jonge, mooie maar labiele vrouw die zich veel va…

The Annals of Ann

Read by CJ Plogue


Kate Trimble Sharber


As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …

The Spinster Book

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Myrtle Reed


A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

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…

Eleanor's Victory

Read by Eleanor Howard


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

Read by PhyllisV


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 …

Deephaven

Read by Betsie Bush


Sarah Orne Jewett


Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remar…

Jack and Jill (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Louisa May Alcott


When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months, pu…

The Wide, Wide World

Read by Bridget Gaige


Susan Warner


"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…

Pollyanna (version 2)

Read by Phil Chenevert


Eleanor H. Porter


In a small town far out West, 11 year old Pollyanna loses her mother then her dad to disease. This book describes how the orphan is sent to…

Pollyanna Grows Up (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna visits Boston for the summer and stays with the grumpy, miserable, yet very wealthy Ruth Carew. Lonely in a big city away from her…

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

The Bent Twig

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

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…

The Heart of the New Thought

Read by SaraHale


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…

More About Pixie

Read by Judi Mason


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…

Digital Magic

Read by Philippa Ballantine


Philippa Ballantine


Penherem is a quaint, sleepy English village where people go to escape the 21st Century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers, the Inte…

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