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The Type-Writer Girl

Read by Grant Hurlock


Grant Allen


(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

Lady Connie

Read by Simon Evers


Mary Augusta Ward


Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…

Wanted: A Husband

Read by Deborah Knight


Samuel Hopkins Adams


This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues y…

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher

Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock


University of Oxford Podcasts

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…

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…

Cornelli

Read by Jael Baldwin


Johanna Spyri


Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…

Dame Valor

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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, …

Space Casey

Read by Christiana Ellis


Christiana Ellis


Some heroines will steal your heart. This one will steal your wallet. In the future, mankind has expanded to fill the solar system, but when…

Eight Cousins (Version 2)

Read by Maria Therese


Louisa May Alcott


This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts.…

A Lady of Quality

Read by Linda Andrus


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups an…

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

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…

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…

Peggy's Trial

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Mary Knight Potter


Ten-year old Peggy Clayton and her two younger brothers, Teddy and Harry, live with their father, Dr. Clayton, and Nurse, a woman who has ta…

A Romp Through Philosophy for Complete Beginners

Read by Marianne Talbot


Marianne Talbot


University of Oxford Podcasts

Two Sides of a Question

Read by Expatriate


May Sinclair


Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a w…

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

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