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Queen Victoria
Read by Michele Eaton
E. Gordon Browne
This book is about the life of Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901). All nine of her children married into the royal houses of Europe. She became 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…
The Benefactress
Read by Helen Taylor
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…
Clematis
Read by Carrie B. Gorman
Bertha B. Cobb and Ernest Cobb
An orphan is found by police and taken to a children's home. In the summer she is sent to the country where a surprise awaits her. - Summary…
The Morgesons
Read by jlenardon
Elizabeth Stoddard
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Louisa May Alcott
When country girl Polly Milton comes to visit her friend Fanny Shaw, city life isn’t all she had hoped it would be. Thrown in the middle of …
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
The New Idealism
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…
What Katy Did (version 2)
Read by Karen Savage
Susan Coolidge
Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage)
Digital Magic
Read by Philippa Ballantine
Philippa Ballantine
Penherem is a quaint, sleepy English village where people go to escape the 21st Century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers, the Inte…
The Dawn of a To-morrow
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
Lady Susan
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
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…
Agnes Grey (Version 3)
Read by Libby Gohn
Anne Brontë
Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new car…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
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…
The Precipice
Read by Mary Schneider
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…
The Semi-Attached Couple
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Emily Eden
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…
Unknown London (version 2)
Read by Janet
Walter George Bell
For anyone interested in history or who think they know London, Eighteen London secrets will be explored in detail. - Summary by Janet 99