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Swinburne’s Lyrical Poetry

In Hearts of Controversy

Read by Lucy Kempton


Alice Meynell


Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…

Saints, Priests The Priest's Soul - The Priest of Coloony

In Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Read by Lucy Kempton


William Butler Yeats


This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

Chapter 11: Recounts the Journey in a Chariot, with a Certain Amount of Dialogu…

In Diana of the Crossways

Read by Lucy Kempton


George Meredith


Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miser…

George Sand by Pearl Mary-Teresa Craigie

In Mauprat

Read by Lucy Kempton


George Sand


Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin …

Chapter VII A Racine Celebration

In Chateau and Country Life in France

Read by Lucy Kempton


Mary King Waddington


Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University, and the granddaughter of New York Se…

Chapter 2

In The Marquis de Villemer

Read by Lucy Kempton


George Sand


Caroline is a very intelligent woman. She received a good convent education until her father lost his fortune in a failed venture and died s…

The Lady Tells of the Strife and Trouble That Befell After Her Coming to the Co…

In The Well at the World's End, Book 2: The Road Unto Trouble

Read by Lucy Kempton


William Morris


In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…

The Skies Are Falling

In Wet Magic (version 2)

Read by Lucy Kempton


E. Nesbit


Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one b…