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London
Read by JDGavin
Louisa May Alcott
In Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
Unlike the other volumes in this series, which are books of childrens' stories, Shawl-Straps is a novel. It is the story of Amanda, Matilda,…
The Child Elizabeth
Read by KimberlyB
Eva March Tappan
In In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
Of all the sovereigns who have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly prais…
Chapter VIII: The Beginning of the Reading Time
Read by TR Love
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
Chapter 17
Read by Kalynda
F. Anstey
In The Brass Bottle
What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilari…
Selected excerpts by Elizabeth Stevenson Gaskell
Read by Natalie Contino
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Stanzas
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë and Anne Brontë
In Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (version 2)
The Bronte sisters, most famous for their novels, began their career with a slim volume of poetry, published under pseudonyms. It only sold …
Chapter 2
Read by czandra
Jane Austen
In Northanger Abbey (Version 5)
What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why! - Summary by Victoria Bell
To the Queen
Read by Arthur Krolman
Anne Killigrew
In Poems (1686)
These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 yea…
Elizabeth Blackwell
Read by Availle
Unknown
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082
"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…
Elizabeth Alexander
Read by Stunning
Various
In Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Chapter IX
Read by Jan Moorehouse
Kate Sanborn
In The Wit of Women
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
25 - Recollections
Read by NoelBadrian
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
In The Undying One and Other Poems
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
The Editor and the News
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Will Irwin
In The American Newspaper
The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by Will Irwin from 1909 to 1910 spanning fifteen articles that discuss th…
Isabel
Read by Eliza Winters
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
Writing a Book
Read by Sheila Quattrocchi
Myrtle Reed
In Threads of Grey and Gold
This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic…
Book IX - Cato, part 2
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Lucan
In Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Lucan's only surviving work, De Bello Civili, more generally known as the Pharsalia, is an epic poem about the civil war between Julius Caes…
Marie
Read by Newgatenovelist
Thomas Parker Sanborn
In Selected Poems
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…