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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…

Little Prudy

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Rebecca Sophia Clarke


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…

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.&…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

Read by Peter Yearsley


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.&…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

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…

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…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

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.&…

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…

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…

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…

Camilla

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Frances Burney


Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…

The History of Britain

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


John Milton


A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…

Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

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…

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…

Eleanor's Victory

Read by Eleanor Howard


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

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…

George Eliot

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


University of Oxford Podcasts

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