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When They Were Girls
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Rebecca Deming Moore
Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Frances Burnett, Julia Howe, Hellen Keller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe are some of the influenc…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Heroines of Service
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Mary Rosetta Parkman
From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…
An International Episode
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Henry James
Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…
The House of Mystery
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Richard Marsh
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…
Figures of Several Centuries
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Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and cr…
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories
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Caroline Ticknor
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6
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Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
The White Linen Nurse
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…
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…
Brian Ashbee Colourblind
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Saturday-Night Theatre: Colourblind Sat 16th Apr 1983, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM A comedy by Brian Ashbee With Mary Wimbus…
The Blue Jar Story Book
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Maria Edgeworth
This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgewo…
Amelia (Vol. 2)
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Henry Fielding
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn
008 The Marilynne Robinson Interview
Sheridan Voysey
An interview with Pulitzer Prize- winning author Marilynne Robinson
Heroines of Fiction
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William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Deerbrook
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Harriet Martineau
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 004
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Various
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Wonderful Story of Ravalette
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P. B. Randolph
Is it possible to break through the awful barrier—to glimpse through the Night-Curtain that screens and shrouds us from the Phantom-World?—i…
Christopher Junior
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Madeleine Lucette Ryley
Having accidentally placed himself in a compromising situation, Christopher Jedbury, Jr. is forced to marry a woman without ever seeing her.…
Shadows Of The Past by Rosemary Timperley
When I saw the outside of the house I knew it. And that staircase - I knew that. And the tree outside your window - that's an old friend.” A…