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Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

Journal Of Small Things

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Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay


Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by ka…

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 …

Poor Miss Finch

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Wilkie Collins


“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners

Read by Marianne Talbot


Marianne Talbot


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Our Village, Volume 1

Read by Anne Fletcher


Mary Russell Mitford


This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…

The Englishwoman in America

Read by Sibella Denton


Isabella L. Bird


Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…

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…

That Lass o' Lowrie's

Read by Phil Benson


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Frances Hodgson Burnett was born and grew up in Manchester, England, and emigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 16. Fo…

The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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Various


The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Letters from Mrs Palmerstone to Her Daughter, Volume One

Read by Anne Fletcher


Rachel Hunter


The extended title of these volumes is 'Inculcating Morality by Entertaining Narratives”, and in the preface the Author indicates she offere…

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


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Unvarnished Tales

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William Mackay


This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect fo…

Tension

Read by Helen Taylor


E. M. Delafield


When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capabl…

There's a certain slant of light

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Emily Dickinson


In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. - Summary by David Lawrence

Our Village, Volume 2

Read by Anne Fletcher


Mary Russell Mitford


This volume continues Miss Mitford's reflections on the changes to village life and characters when she returns two years after the end of V…

The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant

Read by Anne Fletcher


Violet Tweedale


Romantic entanglements and scandals of friends and families come to light when two women arrive to start new lives in the countryside. - Su…

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Isles of Eden

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Laura Lee Davidson


A charming and thoughtful view of life in Canada experienced while vacationing on a small island in summer. The author is a women who is ind…

Birds of the Air

Read by Laura Caldwell


Arabella B. Buckley


Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …

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