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Learning and Work in Medieval England

In Humanities at the Department for Continuing Education

Read by Elizabeth Gemmill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Henry II and the Twelfth-Century World

In Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2012

Read by Elizabeth Gemmill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Learning and Work in Medieval England

In Kellogg College

Read by Elizabeth Gemmill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Anniversaries, feasts and commemoration in the Middle Ages

In Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2013

Read by Elizabeth Gemmill


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Emma (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

Lady Audley's Secret

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…

Jane Eyre (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Charlotte Brontë


Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governes…

The Children of Odin

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Pádraic Colum


Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Persuasion (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …

Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

The Turn of the Screw (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Henry James


Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…

A Room with a View (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


E. M. Forster


The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While stayi…

The House of Mirth

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…

Howards End

Read by Elizabeth Klett


E. M. Forster


The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …

Cousin Phillis

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mo…

Carmilla

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to th…