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Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
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Constance Lytton
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential trea…
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
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 …
English as She is Wrote
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William James Mcglothlin
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentional…
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English…
The Freedmen's Book
Read by Rhonda Federman
Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
The White People
Read by Anne Fletcher
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a unique gift for seeing what others cannot. This ultimately hopeful and positive s…
Curiosities of Olden Times
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Sabine Baring-Gould
This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Goul…
In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
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Eva March Tappan
Of all the sovereigns who have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly prais…
The Bent Twig
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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 History of Mary Prince
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Mary Prince
Mary Prince was born into slavery in the West Indies. As a free woman in England she wrote her memoirs, which sold well and supported and pu…
Africa, O Africa
Read by Louise Robinson Chapman
Louise Robinson Chapman
This is the story of Louise Robinson Chapman, a missionary in Africa. From 1920 until 1940 she ministered to the dark continent, coming to t…
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Did you ever contemplate a carreer as a journalist, or to get married? Do you have problems with your children, parents, or colleagues? Do y…
2014 08 17 # Ferguson
Pastor Scott Austin
2014/08/17: From the message series "Ambassadors of Reconciliation: Faith, Race, and Our City" at Artisan Church, Rochester, NY. w…
Unknown to History
Read by Tanica
Charlotte Mary Yonge
During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protest…
Ella Clinton
Read by Michelle Hannah
Martha Finley
The Story of Ella Clinton who regardless of her desire to be good is ruled by her passions. Then one day she submits her desires to the only…
My Own Story
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement. She was widely criticized for her milita…
To The Lighthouse
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…