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Samuel Johnson

Read by Lynda Mugglestone


Lynda Mugglestone


University of Oxford Podcasts

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Read by Lynne Carroll


Elinore Pruitt Stewart


The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47

Read by Phil Benson


Geraldine Jewsbury


'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…

Author! Author!



AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Published fiction writers appear on a radio show where the unusual ending of a possible story is shared, and the task of the…

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

Read by Esther


Laurence Housman


It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to w…

The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…

K.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


"K" is the initial of the mysterious lodger without a first name who rents a room from Sidney to escape his past. Sidney herself r…

Literature and Form

Read by Catherine Brown


Catherine Brown


University of Oxford Podcasts

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Read by Jennette Selig


Louisa May Alcott


Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is …

Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. …

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch

Read by Abigail Rasmussen


H. Rider Haggard


This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of th…

Lady Baltimore

Read by Lois Hill


Owen Wister


Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research genealogies an…

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…

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…

One-Act Play Collection 008

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Various


Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 008 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.Project BC: Michele…

The Queens Came Late


Norma Farber


POEM

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…

Digital Magic

Read by Philippa Ballantine


Philippa Ballantine


Penherem is a quaint, sleepy English village where people go to escape the 21st Century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers, the Inte…

A Peep Behind the Scenes

Read by Abigail Rasmussen


Mrs. O. F. Walton


Rosalie is the daughter of a traveling theater master and is envied by many young girls as she appears to live a life full of glamour, glitz…

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