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More About Pixie

Read by Judi Mason


Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…

Miss Mackenzie

Read by Kirsten Wever


Anthony Trollope


The thirty-five year-old (hence utterly over-the-hill) Miss Margaret Mackenzie, having devoted her life to others, suddenly finds herself wi…

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…

Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories

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Henry Lawson


01. That Pretty Girl in the ArmyThe Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke.  That is, until…

The Search

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Grace Livingston Hill


“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they bot…

Little Novels

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Wilkie Collins


Master Victorian storyteller Wilkie Collins, author of classics such as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, brings us a collection of nove…

Crome Yellow, Version 2

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Aldous Huxley


Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. T…

Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading)

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…

Understood Betsy (version 2)

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill…

Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School

Read by Christine Blachford


Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


Being a good and loyal friend is not easy, and Grace learns it the hard way. But, as in all children's books, good triumphs over evil. (Summ…

Lilian

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, w…

Grace Harlowe's Problem

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

True Stories of Girl Heroines

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Evelyn Everett-Green


Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

Study Skills

Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson


University of Oxford Podcasts

Aunt Jane's Hero

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Elizabeth Prentiss


Aunt Jane is a good and loving woman, important to everyone except herself, always willing to give good advice. Her "hero", Horace…

Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…

Strangers at Lisconnel

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Jane Barlow


Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is grea…

A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory

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Lucy Larcom


Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

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