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The Morgesons
Read by jlenardon
Elizabeth Stoddard
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Dawn
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Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …
Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School
Read by Christine Blachford
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
Being a good and loyal friend is not easy, and Grace learns it the hard way. But, as in all children's books, good triumphs over evil. (Summ…
Lady Anna
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…
Ripples By Maggie Allen
SANWAL
Ripples In Maggie Allen's taut drama, Kenneth Haigh plays a man in search of the truth about his daughter's death. What he discovers about h…
Fractured Horizon
Read by H.E. Roulo
H.E. Roulo
Katherine Downs sets off to find her mysterious father—and awakens hundreds of years later into a world guided by visionary Royals. But Kay…
The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Daniel Deronda
Read by Becky Miller
George Eliot
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School
Read by Christine Blachford
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
This delightful book tells about a group of smart young people who get up to some wonderful adventures together - and save one another from …
A Few Figs from Thistles
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
University of Oxford Podcasts
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Eleanor's Victory
Read by Eleanor Howard
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…
The Search
Read by LikeManyWaters
Grace Livingston Hill
“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…
English Literature
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Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
Doctor Thorne
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Anthony Trollope
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
The Pretty Lady
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…
The Two Heroines of Plumplington
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the…