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Moving the Mountain

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

The Farmer's Bride

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Charlotte Mew


The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this e…

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

Astrophil and Stella

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Sir Philip Sidney


Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astr…

The Marne: a tale of the war

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She li…

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Phillis Wheatley


Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age s…

Poems of West and East

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Vita Sackville-West


Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative p…

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Lady Mary Wroth


Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of s…

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Aemilia Lanyer


Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all wome…

Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orin…

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Katherine Philips


The poet Katherine Philips was called "The Matchless Orinda" in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and politi…

SPLiCE: Sustainable Pathways to Low Carbon Energy (Scoping Workshop) Part Two Na…

In UKERC Energy Workshops

Read by Ian Bateman


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Seven Black Cats

In Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5

Read by Lydia Bateman


Louisa May Alcott


A book of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and Eight Cousins. It includes Two Little Travellers, a story about two…

The Face in the Stream

In Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

Read by Syan Bateman


Bliss Carman


This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman use…

05 - THE PIMIENTA PANCAKES

In Heart of the West

Read by Steven Bateman


O. Henry


A collection of short stories by the legendary O. Henry. (Summary by sidhu177)

Corpse on the Grating by Hugh B. Cave

In Astounding Stories 02, February 1930

Read by Steven Bateman


Hugh B. Cave


This is the second issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the finale of The Beetle Horde by Victor Rousseau, …

Lines wrote whilst thinkin' about how Pa acts when dressin' up

In Sonnets of a Budding Bard

Read by Syan Bateman


Nixon Waterman


This is a volume of 25 sonnets by American poet Nixon Waterman. The sonnets are written from the perspective of a school boy, and are very h…

On the Imitation of Man

In The Business of Being a Woman

Read by Lydia Bateman


Ida M. Tarbell


How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…

The Soul Master by Will Smith and R. J. Robbins, Pt 1

In Astounding Stories 03, March 1930

Read by Steven Bateman


various and Ray Cummings


This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by…

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