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Diana

Read by Bridget Gaige


Susan Warner


Diana Starling is the beautiful and quiet daughter of a cold and mentally abusive mother. She falls in love with Evan Nolton, but her mother…

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

Read by tabithat


Elizabeth Von Arnim


The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention i…

The Young Diana

Read by Newgatenovelist


Marie Corelli


Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems …

Stories by English Authors: London

Read by Kirsten Wever


F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

Poor Miss Finch

Read by Sandra G


Wilkie Collins


“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

A Little Princess

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Frances Hodgson Burnett


The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father’s…

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 …

Memoirs of a London Doll

Read by VO Gal


Richard Henry Horne


This is a fictional work written in the early 20th century. The story is narrated by Maria Poppet, a doll with a unique consciousness, offer…

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Read by Karen Savage


Baroness Emma Orczy


The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summ…

A Little Princess (version 2)

Read by Karen Savage


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Sara is brought to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies by her father, Captain Crewe, because the climate in India doesn't agree …

A London Life

Read by Deborah Percy


Henry James


A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

A Room with a View

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


E. M. Forster


When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon…

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading)

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Baroness Emma Orczy


The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the S…

Penelope's English Experiences

Read by Maria Therese


Kate Douglas Wiggin


Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


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Constance Dunlap

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Arthur B. Reeve


Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest.…

Diana Tempest

Read by Simon Evers


Mary Cholmondeley


Colonel Tempest , his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest,…

Pollyanna (version 4)

Read by thestorygirl


Eleanor H. Porter


Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a le…

Vanity Fair (version 2)

Read by Helen Taylor


William Makepeace Thackeray


One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mo…

Orlando, A Biography (version 2)

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

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