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Chapter 7: Modesty, Comprehensively Considered, And Not As a Sexual Virtue

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Read by Samantha Hayes

Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

Julian Scott

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Samantha Hayes

Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

20 - Part 3 chapter 1

In Basil

Read by Piper Hayes

Wilkie Collins

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

57 - Lilian Dale Vanquishes Her Mother

In The Small House at Allington

Read by Piper Hayes

Anthony Trollope

Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her t…

07 - An Account of Mrs. Tappitt's Party, commenced

In Rachel Ray

Read by Piper Hayes

Anthony Trollope

The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…

71 - Mr. Toogood at Silverbridge.

In The Last Chronicle of Barset

Read by Piper Hayes

Anthony Trollope

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…