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A Strange Disappearance (Version 2)

Read by Mark Leder


Anna Katharine Green


Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…

That Lass o' Lowrie's

Read by Phil Benson


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…

A London Life

Read by Deborah Percy


Henry James


A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

Moods

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Louisa May Alcott


"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the wor…

Red Pottage

Read by Simon Evers


Mary Cholmondeley


The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with th…

The Leavenworth Case

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, …

Poor Miss Finch

Read by Sandra G


Wilkie Collins


“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

Stella Maris

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…

Doris and the Ankh

Read by Brian Holtz


Brian Holtz


A fantasy adventure for all ages. Doris, a neurotic and quirky thirteen-year-old, is thrust into an alternate reality where flowers sneeze,…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Englishwoman in America

Read by Sibella Denton


Isabella L. Bird


Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…

Pollyanna (version 4)

Read by thestorygirl


Eleanor H. Porter


Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a le…

The White Linen Nurse (version 2)

Read by MaryAnn


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, o…

The Maine Woods

Read by Expatriate


Henry David Thoreau


On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

Biographia Literaria

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …

Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)

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Frances Browne


Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book …

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 …

The Benefactress

Read by Helen Taylor


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 5, Dramatic Reading)

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A. A. Milne


This is a full-cast dramatic reading of the beloved children's classic. - Summary by ShellyCast List :Narrator: Lynette CaulkinsChristopher…

Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Read by Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill


Mark Philp, David O’Shaughnessy and Ellen Sandford O'Neill


University of Oxford Podcasts

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