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Section 07

In Dear Enemy

Read by Betsie Bush

Jean Webster

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, J…

Lard, Tallow, Soap and Candles

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea

The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

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In A Noiseless Patient Spider

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whitman_w and Walt Whitman

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by An…

Part 01

In Daddy-Long-Legs

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Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl…

Jazz Fantasia - Read by BB

In Jazz Fantasia

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Carl Sandburg

As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…

Chapter 3

In The Getting of Wisdom

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Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

Chapter 6: The Effect Which an Early Association Of Ideas Has Upon the Character

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

Chapter 31

In Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

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