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I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. He…

Eminent Victorians

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Giles Lytton Strachey

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

The House on the Downs

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Gladys Edson Locke

Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…

Stepping Heavenward (version 2)

Read by Theresa L. Downey

Elizabeth Prentiss

How dreadfully old I am getting! Sixteen!" Thus begins the lifelong diary of young Katherine as she pours out her hopes, dreams, and sp…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown

Catherine Brown

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The Child's Book of American Biography

Read by Laura Victoria

Mary Stoyell Stimpson

In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

I Say No

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Wilkie Collins

Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, t…

Dope

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Sax Rohmer

A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson

This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old

Read by Maria Therese

Winfrid Herbst

Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two ro…

The Type-Writer Girl

Read by Grant Hurlock

Grant Allen

(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

A London Life

Read by Deborah Percy

Henry James

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Read by Gillian Hendrie

Henry Mayhew

Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Queen Victoria

Read by R. S. Steinberg

Giles Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four shor…

A Group of Noble Dames

Read by Libby Gohn

Thomas Hardy

The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…

Contending Forces

Read by Margaret Espaillat

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

A Chautauqua Idyl

Read by Scarlett Martin

Grace Livingston Hill

The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.

The Chaperon

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Henry James

What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

Notes on Nursing

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Florence Nightingale

Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse

Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

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