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Briarwood Girls

Read by Linda Velwest


Julia Lestarjette Glover


Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda V…

Stupidity - Read by LVW

In Stupidity

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Amy Lowell


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.

Christmas Morning - Read by lvw

In Christmas Morning

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Eugene Field


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 12, 2…

Version 10

In Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poe…

Love's Young Dream - Read by LVW

In Love's Young Dream

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Thomas Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Love's Young Dream by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26th, 201…

Ch. 10 - The Second Inauguration

In Behind the Scenes

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Elizabeth Keckley


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

Shelter and Housing

In A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Inv…

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United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives


In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to H…

15 - The Exhibition (Part 1)

In Belinda

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Maria Edgeworth


When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented i…

00 - Dedication and preface

In A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

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Lucy Larcom


Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

Bk. 3 Ch. 9

In Marcella

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Mrs. Humphry Ward and Mary Augusta Ward


Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) was a very popular author at the end of the 19th century. The arrival of Marcella was discussed a lot …

13 - New Year's Fete; Part 2

In Sylvia's Lovers

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather …

29 - ANOTHER CAMP-MEETING

In The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert


The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

14 - Gold and Iron

In The Story Book of Science

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Jean-Henri Fabre


The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nat…