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Joanna Traill, Spinster
Read by Ashley Sue Murphy
Annie E. Holdsworth
Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …
Nelly Channell
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Sarah Doudney
Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin He…
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerfu…
The Search
Read by LikeManyWaters
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…
Wanted
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Twenty-seven year old Rebecca Meredith feels out of place and unwanted. She has lost her mother, brother, and idolized little sister to the …
A Chautauqua Idyl
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.
The Mountain Girl
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Payne Erskine
A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago T…
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…
Ester Ried's Namesake
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Esther Ried Randall tries to live up to her parents' expectations and the name she's been given, but her religion is a chore. Will she learn…
Scarhaven Keep
Read by Cate Barratt
J. S. Fletcher
The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and pl…
Julia Ried
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name "Pansy." Sequel to "Ester Ried." Julia Ried must take a job as a bookke…
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Five stories with the general themes of foreign missions, money, and hypocrisy.Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening: A young wife in a new city is …
Passing
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…
Fidelity
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married ma…
Edgar Allan Poe i udvalg
Read by Kristoffer Hunsdahl
Edgar Allan Poe
Det er næppe nogen overdrivelse at benævne Edgar Allan Poe som gysets sande mester. Her følger et lille udvalg af histori…
Heather and Snow
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
Set in the barren lowlands of Scotland with a small cast of characters, both lives and landscape are vividly portrayed and masterfully inter…
Alice Dugdale
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
Opening a Chestnut Burr
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Edward P. Roe
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusi…
Mary Broome
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Allan Monkhouse
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…