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Chapter IX

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Kate Sanborn


In The Wit of Women

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…

44 - Volume 3, Chapter 9, Part 2

Read by kandice stehlik


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


In Vixen

This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, ar…

Jenny's Miss Claire

Read by Caro Davy


Marion St. John Webb


In The House with the Twisting Passage (Version 2)

When her parents go to India for two years, 9 year old Jenny is cared for by her aunts. Aunt Abby is caretaker in a large many-roomed house…

A Dialogue Between Miss Jenny Peace and Miss Sukey Jennet

Read by mlcui


Sarah Fielding


In The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy

The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a si…

Book 3, Chapter 1, Part 2

Read by Leena Emsley


Catherine Carswell


In Open The Door

This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…

A Year Ago

Read by mleigh


Marie E. J. Pitt


In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses

Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…

Pension Séguin

Read by Kathleen Moore


Katherine Mansfield


In Something Childish and Other Stories

This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…

She is So Much

Read by Nemo


Madison Cawein


In The Garden of Dreams

Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Semele

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Constance Naden


In Sonnets

Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…

Spring

Read by Tasha C Mapes


Seba Smith


In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

22 - Auf dem Schlittweg

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Johanna Spyri


In Heimatlos - Geschichten für Kinder und auch für solche, welche die Kinder lieb …

Ihr erstes Kinderbuch «Heimathlos» enthielt die Erzählungen «Am Silser- und am Gardasee» und «Wie Wiseli’…

Marie

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Thomas Parker Sanborn


In Selected Poems

Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…

The Beautiful

Read by Kathleen Moore


Madison Cawein


In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5

This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…

Netlik

Read by Kristine Bekere


Zachariah Atwell Mudge and Zachariah Atwell Mudge


In North-Pole Voyages

For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…

Dawn

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Angelina Weld Grimké


In Selected Poems

Angelina Weld Grimké was a poet, playwright and educator. These poems were published between 1923 and 1927. - Summary by Newgatenovel…

A timely warning

Read by Kathleen Moore


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


In The Lady's Mile

If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …

Beauty

Read by Alan Mapstone


Seba Smith


In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 22

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

To the Reader

Read by MaryAnn


Charlotte Elliott


In Hours of Sorrow

Poems from the author of the beloved hymn, "Just as I Am", chiefly adapted to seasons of sickness, depression and bereavement. Ell…

Romance

Read by ErinK


Madison Cawein


In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls

A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Reminders

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Jeannette Fraser Henshall


In Rain and Roses

One reviewer describes these poems as "dainty." Each reflect a delicacy of feeling and sentiment of home, love and nature. Jeanne…

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