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Go She Must!
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David Garnett
Anne Dunnock is desperately unhappy. Her widowed father is an unpopular clergyman, who takes his work more seriously than his parishioners w…
The Statement of Stella Maberly
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F. Anstey
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but…
My Mortal Enemy
Read by Amy Dunkleberger
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
In the small Midwestern town of Parthia, Myra Henshawe was a legend. The grandniece and ward of Parthia’s richest resident, Myra had shocked…
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…
Mrs. Pretty and The Premier
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Arthur Adams
The Premier has decided that being married would be good for his image. He asks his stenographer for advice: (Premier) Good. Just jot me dow…
The Third Miss Symons
Read by Rachel Lintern
F. M. Mayor
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world,…
The Romance of an Old Fool
Read by Roger Melin
Roswell Field
A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintanc…
Miss Ingalis
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Gertrude Hall
As the story begins, title character Grace Ingalis is a young woman with a middle-class socialite's upbringing who decides to marry a well-o…
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Idle Tales
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Charlotte Riddell
These stories are quite captivating hovering between mysteries & ghostly imaginings. The author was an Irish-born lady that seemed to li…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
Stupidity
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Amy Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Aubrey Tanqueray marries a woman with a past which he believes will not matter in society. "I know you think me a fool, Cayley—you need…
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…
Phantasmagoria and other poems
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…
Amelia (Vol. 2)
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Henry Fielding
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn
How Author Beth Moran Broke Her Life of Silence
Sheridan Voysey
Imagine dropping grades in exams because your pen ran out of ink and you couldn’t ask for a replacement. Imagine hiding from friends you saw…
The Indifferent Mariner
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Arthur Macy
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indifferent Mariner by Arthur Macy.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 23, 2…
The Wit of Women
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Kate Sanborn
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting.While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now…
Modeste Mignon
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Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…