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A Woman's Life

Read by Lisa Reichert


Guy de Maupassant


Having spent her girlhood at a convent getting a good education, Jeanne has just returned home and is a happy young woman full of hope and e…

The Bent Twig

Read by Bellona Times


Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Semi-autobiographical series of incidents in the life of an intellectual American family in the late 19th - early 20th Century as seen by fa…

The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An A…

Read by David Wales


Ellen Newbold La Motte


Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war …

The Gardener and The Burden


Rudyard Kipling


Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…

Vanity Fair (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor


William Makepeace Thackeray


One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

The Story of My Life, Part 3 (Supplemental - Helen's Education)

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Helen Keller


Secondary Title - A supplementary Account of Helen Keller's Education, including passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne …

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…

The Breaking Point

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…

Constance Dunlap

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Arthur B. Reeve


Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…

The Autobiography of a Slander

Read by Rhonda Federman


Edna Lyall


The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tal…

Helen of the Old House

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

The Sword of Deborah

Read by MaryAnn


F. Tennyson Jesse


"The Sword of Deborah" contains the reflections of a woman journalist visiting women working behind the lines in France during Wor…

Miss Philura's Wedding Gown

Read by Anne Fletcher


Florence Morse Kingsley


Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you hav…

Taken at the Flood

Read by Celine Major


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…

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 Road to Understanding

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Eleanor H. Porter


"If Burke Denby had not been given all the frosted cakes and toy shotguns he wanted at the age of ten, it might not have been so diffic…

The Clue

Read by Roger Melin


Carolyn Wells


Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mys…

Ann Veronica

Read by Joy Chan


H. G. Wells


Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …

The Third Miss Symons

Read by Rachel Lintern


F. M. Mayor


Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world,…

Lifted Masks

Read by Arielle Lipshaw


Susan Glaspell


In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)

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