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The Position of Peggy Harper
Read by Anna Simon
Leonard Merrick
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…
A Life's Morning
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George Gissing
This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer.…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Richardson
Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…
Lady Rose's Daughter
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Mary Augusta Ward
"Julie Le Breton enchants almost everyone around her with her smart, charm, and excellent manners. She almost belongs to the English hi…
Snow-Blind
Read by Roger Melin
Katharine Newlin Burt
A bit of a menage-a-quatre in a remote cabin in the wilderness as fugitive Hugh, his younger brother Pete, nursemaid and cook Bella, and now…
Joan and Peter
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H. G. Wells
This is satirical look at the English educational system and society in the early twentieth century and the effect of World War I on them by…
The Woman in White - version 2
Read by Tony Addison
Wilkie Collins
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and settin…
A Woman Of Yesterday
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Caroline Atwater Mason
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the bi…
How Author Beth Moran Broke Her Life of Silence
Sheridan Voysey
Imagine dropping grades in exams because your pen ran out of ink and you couldn’t ask for a replacement. Imagine hiding from friends you saw…
Susan Jane Harrison Alaska
Alaska by Susan Jane-Harrison Against the backdrop of Alaska, boy meets girl across a bar. It might be the start of a romance, but this is a…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6
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Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
Another Year
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Frances Ridley Havergal
LibriVox readers bring you 13 readings of Another Year, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for December 28, 2014, to Janua…
Life and Writings of Addison
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…
April's Lady: A Novel
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Mrs. Hungerford
This is a delightful Victorian romance by Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, published in 1890. The heroine of this novel, Joyce, fin…
Essays on Modern Novelists
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William Lyon Phelps
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter 04 Eps
Various
(04 Episodes) "Mary Foster, Editor's Daughter" suffered the many trials & tribulations which adaughter to the Editor of a larg…
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive
Read by Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas
Peter Robinson and Hannah Lucas
University of Oxford Podcasts
Lady Into Fox (Version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
David Garnett
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …