Memoirs

Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

by Saint Jane Frances De Chantal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

by Benvenuto Cellini Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

by Pierre Abélard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

A Son of the Middle Border

by Hamlin Garland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland's evocative memoir that captures the essence of life in the American Midwest during a transform…

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

by Lindsay Anderson Read by David Wales 4.5
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

Behind the Scenes

by Elizabeth Keckley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

by Alexander Berkman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Cl…

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

by Margaret Herschel Read by Kevin Green 5
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

by Isabel Anderson Read by William Tomcho 4.6
In The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, Isabel Anderson invites listeners on a captivating journey through the enchanting …

Our Cats and All About Them

by Harrison Weir Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…

Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Charles Edward Stowe Read by Michele Fry 4.6
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), of Cincinnati, was the most famous female American author of her age, and is said to h…

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Harriet E. Wilson Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…

The Getting of Wisdom

by Henry Handel Richardson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

by George Washington Plunkitt Read by John W. Michaels 4.9
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…

Five Years of My Life

by Alfred Dreyfus Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life impr…

The Spring of Joy

by Mary Webb Read by NoelBadrian 5
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

by Ellen Craft Read by Newgatenovelist 4.4
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…

The Wound Dresser

by Walt Whitman Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.6
The Wound Dresser offers a poignant glimpse into the heart of the American Civil War through the eyes of Walt Whitman. This collection of le…

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

by Francis Bond Head Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

Autobiography

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influe…

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