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Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart

Read by Libby Gohn


Chrétien De Troyes


This medieval French romance is the oldest surviving work about Lancelot. When Queen Guinevere is abducted by Meleagrant, Lancelot must face…

Indiana

Read by Mary Herndon Bell


George Sand


This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…

Life in the Iron Mills

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Rebecca Harding Davis


This 1861 novella was the first published work by Rebecca Harding Davis: writer, social reformer, and pioneer of literary realism. It tell…

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Moods

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Louisa May Alcott


"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the wor…

The Old English Baron

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Clara Reeve


The story follows the adventures of Sir Philip Harclay, who returns to medieval England to find that the castle seat and estate of his frien…

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Nobody

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Susan Warner


There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his fa…

What Diantha Did

Read by Betsie Bush


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …

Sonette nach dem Portugiesischen, übertragen durch Rainer Maria Rilke

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Elizabeth Barrett Browning schrieb diese Sonette für ihren Mann. Dieser gab sie dann zur Veröffentlichung. In seiner Übersetz…

The Marquis de Villemer

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George Sand


Caroline is a very intelligent woman. She received a good convent education until her father lost his fortune in a failed venture and died s…

Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life

Read by Alan Winterrowd


Richard Marsh


Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill …

Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage

Read by Nancy Halper


Ellen Glasgow


Set in Richmond, Virginia and New York City at the end of the 19th century, this is the story of Gabriella Carr, a young woman who demonstra…

History Plays for the Grammar Grades

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Mary Ella Lyng


A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susa…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Read by Amelia Chesley


Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

Lady Connie

Read by Simon Evers


Mary Augusta Ward


Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…

The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

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Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

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Alice Duer Miller


A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the…

The Chaperon

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052

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Various


Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery,…

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