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Chapter 7: Modesty, Comprehensively Considered, And Not As a Sexual Virtue

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Read by Samantha Hayes


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…

Benjamin Pantier

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Samantha Hayes


Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

20 - Part 3 chapter 1

In Basil

Read by Piper Hayes


Wilkie Collins


Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

BOOK III. The War in Wales. Chapter VI

In Uther and Igraine

Read by Cassian Hayes


Warwick Deeping


This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)

37 - An Old Man's Complaint

In The Small House at Allington

Read by Piper Hayes


Anthony Trollope


Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her t…

Gifts of Shee

In Summer of Love

Read by Keara Hayes


Joyce Kilmer


Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…

07 - An Account of Mrs. Tappitt's Party, commenced

In Rachel Ray

Read by Piper Hayes


Anthony Trollope


The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wis…