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Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Mary Cowden Clarke


This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of c…

Maude

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Christina Rossetti


Maude is a novella by Christina Rossetti, written in 1850 but published posthumously in 1897. Considered by scholars to be semi-autobiograph…

Moving the Mountain

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

The Farmer's Bride

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Charlotte Mew


The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this e…

Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

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Edith Wharton


American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…

Astrophil and Stella

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Sir Philip Sidney


Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astr…

The Marne: a tale of the war

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Edith Wharton


American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She li…

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Phillis Wheatley


Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age s…

Poems of West and East

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Vita Sackville-West


Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative p…

Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

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Lady Mary Wroth


Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of s…

Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum

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Aemilia Lanyer


Aemilia Lanyer's 1611 poem is far more than a retelling of The Passion. It comprises a spirited defense of Eve (and, by extension, all wome…

Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orin…

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Katherine Philips


The poet Katherine Philips was called "The Matchless Orinda" in her day and was well known for her works, both personal and politi…

Tarzan the Terrible

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Edgar Rice Burroughs


In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German tro…

Jill the Reckless

Read by Don W. Jenkins


P. G. Wodehouse


Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…

The Prince and Betty

Read by Don W. Jenkins


P. G. Wodehouse


The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally published in Ainslee's Magazine in the United States in January 1912, …

Tales of the Jazz Age

Read by Don W. Jenkins


F. Scott Fitzgerald


Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to…

The Gloved Hand

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Burton Egbert Stevenson


Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

The Secret House

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Edgar Wallace


A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely s…

New Arabian Nights

Read by Don W. Jenkins


Robert Louis Stevenson


New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …

The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)

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P. G. Wodehouse


The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by t…

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