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Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Read by Sue Anderson
Sarah Hopkins Bradford
A portrait of Harriet Tubman is scheduled to replace that of Andrew Jackson on the front of the U.S. $20 bill in 2020. Sarah H. Bradford, w…
The Promised Land
Read by Bridget Gaige
Mary Antin
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …
Historia De Una Madre
Read by josh
Hans Christian Andersen
Es un cuento de Hans Christian Andersen.
Sobre el autor:
Hans Christian Andersen se convirtió en un personaje conocido en Europa, …
The Lady from Nowhere
Read by MaryAnn
Fergus Hume
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (I…
The Englishwoman in America
Read by Sibella Denton
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
The Doctor's Wife
Read by Kirsten Wever
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extr…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Susan
Read by Celine Major
Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined …
Mary's Grammar: Interspersed with Stories and Intended for the Use of Children
Read by Jennifer Dallman
Jane Marcet
Mary's teacher has taxed her with the task of learning that most onerous of all parts of the English language: Grammar. Through stories and …
The Girl Scouts at Home
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Katherine Keene Galt
Little Rosanna Horton was a very poor little girl. When I tell you more about her, you will think that was a very odd thing to say.She lived…
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1
Read by Ruth Golding
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
The Circular Staircase
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 19…
The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh
Dramatised by Neville Teller. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, …
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
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James E. Seaver
Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them …
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Read by Matthew Scott Surprenant
Mary White Rowlandson
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…
The Woman in the Alcove
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Anna Katharine Green
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or,…
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…
La caja de amatista
Read by Victor Villarraza
Anna Katharine Green
Anna Katharine Green es considerada la madre de la novela de detectives. Fue una escritora admirada por autores de su tiempo como Wilkie Col…