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The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading)

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to m…

The Enchanted April

Read by Diana Kiesners


Elizabeth Von Arnim


It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent …

The Semi-Detached House

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Emily Eden


If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple …

Lady Baltimore

Read by Lois Hill


Owen Wister


Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research genealogies an…

Agnes Grey (Dramatic Reading)

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Anne Brontë


Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

To The Lighthouse

Read by Cori Samuel


Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Desperate Remedies

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Thomas Hardy


Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not b…

The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith

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Arthur Wing Pinero


Lucas Cleeve is living in Venice with a widow, Mrs. Ebbsmith. His relatives do not accept this arrangement and come to intervene. Note that …

Villette

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Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

K.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


"K" is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself r…

Sanctuary (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a t…

The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant

Read by Anne Fletcher


Violet Tweedale


Romantic entanglements and scandals of friends and families come to light when two women arrive to start new lives in the countryside. - Su…

Abigail Adams and Her Times

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Laura E. Howe Richards


This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writi…

Contending Forces

Read by Margaret Espaillat


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins


Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…

Cranford

Read by Sibella Denton


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the mag…

The Ordeal of Elizabeth

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William James Mcglothlin


An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As…

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Edith Œnone Somerville


This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leave…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


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