Family & Relationships

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

by Various Read by Gina Belmonde 4.5
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages offers a compelling glimpse into the complexities of love and partnership during the Victorian…

The Pennycomequicks

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by Michael Reuss 4.6
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scar…

Garthowen

by Allen Raine Read by Craig Franklin 4.9
The story centers around the Owens' family and young ‘Morva of the Moor’, the prettiest girl in the world.The Owens of Garthowen, once a pre…

That Mother-in-Law of Mine

by William James McGlothlin Read by Crln Yldz Ksr 4.5
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…

Consequences

by E. M. Delafield Read by Caroline Driggs 4.3
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…

The Adopting of Rosa Marie

by Carroll Watson Rankin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In this charming girl's book we meet again the four chums of Dandelion Cottage. Their friendship knit closer than ever by their summer at pl…

Sunshine and Snow

by Harold Bindloss Read by Laurie Banza 4.6
A harrowing and dramatic story of four siblings from Scotland who are poor and orphaned. The eldest brother, Arthur, is guardian to his two …

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for…

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…

Mildred at Roselands

by Martha Finley Read by Amy 4.5
In order to recover her health, Mildred Keith goes to visit her mother's extended family, the Dinsmores, in the South. Mildred makes new fri…

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life

by Margaret O. Oliphant Read by Anne Erickson 4.6
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…

The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May

by Laura Lee Hope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
When a sweet baby is left on the Bobbsey's doorstep, the twins try to solve the mystery of who left her and where her parents are.This is th…

Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl

by Unknown Read by Jennifer Fournier 4.2
Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm…

The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious …

The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers

by Margaret Sidney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since "the author h…

Short Story Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Mysteries, fantasy, family and hardship all make appearances in this, the 70th volume of short stories in the English language, selected and…

Old Christmas

by Washington Irving Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolm…

The Old Peabody Pew

by Kate Douglas Wiggin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Old Peabody Pew invites listeners into a charming New England meeting house during the holiday season, where love and community intertwi…

The Love Affairs of Pixie

by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Read by Judi Mason 4.6
This is the third book of the Pixie O’Shaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass…

To The Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf 3.8
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

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