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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5

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Samuel Richardson


Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…

Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Charlotte Brontë


After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where…

The Child's Book of American Biography

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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 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…

The Mary Frances Story Book

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Jane Eayre Fryer


The Mary Frances Story Book is different from the other Mary Frances Books. They are part lessons and part story; they teach something about…

008 The Marilynne Robinson Interview


Sheridan Voysey


An interview with Pulitzer Prize- winning author Marilynne Robinson

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…

Mary Tudor

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Victor Hugo


If Queen Mary I of England wants something, you'd better not try and stop her, or else you might soon find yourself without a head! When thi…

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell


"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…

Aunt Hannah and Martha and John

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Pansy


Aunt Hannah's fondest wish had been that her nephew John would marry a local girl and take over the family farm. Trouble was, John was neve…

The Englishwoman in America

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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…

Ponnamal, Her Story

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Amy Wilson Carmichael


"A girl stood alone in the dark, listening. No one moved about her; the old mother-in-law who slept near by breathed steadily, she wou…

MyMotherMary


Christian Peschken


A prayer by St. Alphonsus Liguori to obtain Mary's patronage

Notes on Nursing

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Florence Nightingale


Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and …

Annie Besant

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Annie Besant


In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to emb…

Adam Bede (version 2)

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George Eliot


George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

The Mary Frances Cook Book

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Jane Eayre Fryer


Another of the charming Mary Frances books, this one 'Among the Kitchen People', where young girls are encouraged to be mother's helper's in…

The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ

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Anne Catherine Emmerich


Anne Catherine Emmerich was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding …

Pollyanna Grows Up

Read by Mary Anderson


Eleanor H. Porter


Pollyanna, now cured of her crippling spinal injury, and able to walk again, goes to live in Boston with Mrs. Carew, a heart-broken woman se…

Deephaven

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Sarah Orne Jewett


Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remar…

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