reader:"Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)"

Molly Morganthau, day operator in the telephone exchange, helps to solve a murder. (Summary by D. A. Frank)

Joanna Traill, Spinster

Read by Ashley Sue Murphy

Annie E. Holdsworth

Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …

The Circular Study

Read by Jacquerie

Anna Katharine Green

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

Scarlet Sister Mary

Read by Jim Locke

Julia Peterkin

How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

Briarwood Girls

Read by Linda Velwest

Julia Lestarjette Glover

Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda V…

Somehow Good

Read by Helen Taylor

William Frend De Morgan

A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

Read by PhyllisV

Dexter C. Bloomer

As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet

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A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…

A Daughter Of The Vine

Read by Lynne T

Gertrude Atherton

We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, in…

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

Why Crime Does Not Pay

Read by Ann Boulais

Sophie Lyons

The publishers believe that a picture of a life sketched by a master hand-somebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his fi…

Molly Brown's Sophomore Days

Read by Debbie R. Baker Robinson

Nell Speed

Molly Brown returns to her second year of college at Wellington. Along with her friends at Queen's Cottage, she struggles and triumphs over…

Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy

Booker T. Washington

The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…

A Peep Behind the Scenes

Read by Abigail Rasmussen

Mrs. O. F. Walton

Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…

Miss Philura's Wedding Gown

Read by Anne Fletcher

Florence Morse Kingsley

Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you hav…

Anything Once

Read by Roger Melin

Isabel Ostrander

An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…

Ruth

Read by Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fall…

The Girl from Montana

Read by Gail Mattern

Grace Livingston Hill

Young Elizabeth, left orphaned by an evildoer who murders her last brother, flees Montana on horseback to find her remaining relatives in th…

Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading)

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

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 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 …

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