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Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage…

The Little Robinson of Paris, or, Industry's Triumph

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Eugénie Foa


In this Victorian era children’s novel, haughty Breton aristocrats unjustly reject and cruelly abandon the young orphan Cecil after the deat…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Reviewers Reviewed

Read by Kelly S. Taylor


Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This satirical text was a response to the drubbing the fledgling poet received at the hands of the critics to her debut work, “Pelayo, or th…

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In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Becky


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

The Seven Wonders of Galaxy Zoo

In Stargazing

Read by Becky Smethurst


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Aspasia of Cyrus

In Women of History

Read by Becky Cook


Anonymous


An intriguing look at well known women in history from BC 500 to the mid 1800's. Each chapter is a brief overview of one woman's life. An in…

01 - Chapter I. A Crimean Night

In The Four Feathers

Read by Becky Cook


A.E.W. Mason and A. E. W. Mason


The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells th…

07- Chapter Six, Part 1

In Told in a French Garden

Read by Becky Doughty


Mildred Aldrich


American friends begin to summer in a beautiful French country house when WWI breaks out. They decide not to evacuate as the war encroaches.…

20 - Chapter XX

In Afloat on the Ohio

Read by Becky Cook


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Chapter 15-"Your Mother a Witch!"

In The Witch of Salem

Read by Becky Cook


John R. Musick


A historical novel about the Salem Witch Trials. A fantastic illustrated historical novel by the prolific American author John R. Musick.Fro…

Pasture, The

In Selected Poems of Robert Frost

Read by Becky Miller


Robert Frost


Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. Th…

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