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Inspiring Women - Inspiring Change

In Energy, Climate Change, Social Entrepreneurship and Gender

Read by Jane Butcher

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

The Grey Woman

Read by Jane Greensmith

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill he…

Stories from the History of Rome

Read by Melissa Jane

Emily Beesly

Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett

Isabella L. Bird

Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Jane Bennett

Frantz Funck-Brentano

The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Book 2 Chapter 1

In British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

Read by Matt Butcher

Wirt Sikes

The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…

Divers Tales 6: Four Jacks and a Knave

In Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

Read by Matt Butcher

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is …

The West Wind

In The Slayer of Souls

Read by Matt Butcher

Robert W. Chambers

Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a sla…

STUPID'S CRIES

In More English Fairy Tales

Read by Matt Butcher

Joseph Jacobs

"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

Mr. Incoul Is Preoccupied

In Mr. Incoul's Misadventure

Read by Matt Butcher

Edgar Saltus

Saltus has been compared to Oscar Wilde for wit and language. His novels are entertaining, yet philosophical, exposing the vagaries of human…