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The Blythe Girls: Helen, Margy and Rose
Read by Cheryl Adam
Laura Lee Hope
The Blythe sisters, orphaned and near-penniless are completely on their own. With the last of their resources, they move from their lovely b…
Surprise House
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Abbie Farwell Brown
Our story begins just after Nan Corliss, an eccentric old lady, dies and leaves her strange old house in Crowfield to her nephew, Dr. Owen C…
Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery
Read by Ben Tucker
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...was in his own particular vein one of the best story-tellers of the nineteenth century; and the present volume con…
Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…
Stephen Mollett The Visitor's Book
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Afternoon Play: The Visitor's Book BBC Radio 4 2000. When two workmates take a holiday cottage together in St Ives, one seems to attract men…
The Annals of Ann
Read by CJ Plogue
Kate Trimble Sharber
As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …
A Battle of the Books
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Gail Hamilton
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…
Aunt Friendly's Picture Book
Read by Sam Stinson
Sarah S. Baker
This book includes the classic alphabet, Sing-A-Song Of Sixpence, The Frog Who Would A Wooing go, The Three LIttle Pigs, Puss In Boot, and T…
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena
Read by Celine Major
Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the…
The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax
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Harriet Parr
This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…
The Position of Peggy Harper
Read by Anna Simon
Leonard Merrick
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…
Lady Connie
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…
Grace Harlowe Overseas
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
In 'Grace Harlowe Overseas', we see Grace and her friends travel to Europe in order to serve in World War I (Summary by ashleighjane)
Orientations
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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…
Lover or Friend
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Rosa Nouchette Carey
An epic tale of romantic and societal confrontation, as two families become far more intimately entangled than they could have previously im…
Neddie and Beckie Stubtail
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Howard R. Garis
Follow the adventures and escapades of these delightful bears! There is one story for each day of the month from master story teller H.R. G…
The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Pepys
Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…
Helen in the Editor's Chair
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Ruthe S. Wheeler
After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…
Beyond These Voices
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This novel tells the fictional life story of Veera Davis. The daughter of a poet and a poor noble woman, who is left in the care of her gran…