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The Benefactress

Read by Helen Taylor


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Jackie Pavlenko The Present


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Afternoon Play: The Present Wed 14th May 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM A dark, cautionary comedy by Jackie Pavienko. Eva…

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…

The Dust Flower

Read by Simon Evers


Basil King


Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

John Marchmont's Legacy

Read by Cate Barratt


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…

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…

The House in the Mist

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Anna Katharine Green


It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open r…

Villette

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Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

Emily of New Moon

Read by Leanne Fortune


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives…

Petticoat Government, Volume 3

Read by Mark Leder


Frances Milton Trollope


The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.

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 …

Lost Man's Lane

Read by Mary Bard


Anna Katharine Green


After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…

Scarlet Sister Mary

Read by Jim Locke


Julia Peterkin


How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

Eliza

Read by Nigel Boydell


Barry Pain


A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…

Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls

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Pansy


Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, exce…

The Mystery at Number Six

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Augusta Huiell Seaman


A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew…

The Rain-Girl

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

The Mystery of Mary

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Grace Livingston Hill


Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…

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…

Ayala's Angel

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Anthony Trollope


Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …

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