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My Mortal Enemy
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
In the small Midwestern town of Parthia, Myra Henshawe was a legend. The grandniece and ward of Parthia’s richest resident, Myra had shocked…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Planet Secrets
Read by Trisha M. Wilson
Trisha M. Wilson
For someone who’s been in college as long as I have, you’d think I’d be used to people by now. And for the most part I am…until I met Meredi…
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…
A Hive of Busy Bees
Read by Rosa Grace
Effie Mae Hency Williams
In the summer, Don and Joyce stay on their Grandma and Grandpa's farm. They have great fun, and every night Grandma tells them a story about…
Americans and Others
Read by Mary Schneider
Agnes Repplier
A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 19…
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca goes to live with her two stern aunts in a village in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. (summary from Wikipedia)
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
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Yone Noguchi
This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book d…
The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Read by Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
Gillian Peele and Tom Lubbock
University of Oxford Podcasts
Miss Ashton's New Pupil
Read by Abigail Rasmussen
Sarah Stuart Robbins
Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they…
New Chronicles of Rebecca
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro.
The Story of My Life, Part 2 (Letters 1887 - 1901)
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Helen Keller
When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, Part 1 of this 3 part book, she was just a young woman studying at Radcliffe …
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
What would happen if someone really believed that "Ask and you shall receive"? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of m…
The Heart of Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
(Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women worki…
Poems of Experience
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is another volume of Ella Wheeler Wicox's famous series. This time, the topic is Experience. The short play The New Hawaiian Girl is in…
Optimism, An Essay
Read by Michele Fry
Helen Keller
Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …
A Little Girl in Old Boston
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Amanda Minnie Douglas
Doris, an orphan from England, arrives in Boston and adapts to life in America. As she grows up, she undergoes many adventures and experienc…
The Gnome and Mrs. Meyers
Read by Susan Klein
Susan Klein
When the recently-widowed Mrs. Meyers wins the "Expect The Unexpected Sweepstakes" she thinks everything in her life would turn ar…
Children's Language and Literacy Impairments
Read by Dorothy Bishop
Dorothy Bishop
University of Oxford Podcasts
In a German Pension, Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…