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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)

12 - At Richmond

In The Duke's Children

Read by Piper Hayes


Anthony Trollope


In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…