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Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet E. Wilson
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
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Frances Milton Trollope
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies hi…
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Mrs. Balfame
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
Enid Belfame: 42 years old, 22 of them as a married woman; eminently respectable; founder of The Friday Club; small town dignitary; a parago…
Study Skills
Read by Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson
Sally LePage, Liz Timoney White, Inés Dawson and Luke Ogilvie-Thomson
University of Oxford Podcasts
Dorothy Dale In The City
Read by Lynne T
Margaret Penrose
The series continues. Dorothy Dale and the girls of Glenwood enjoy a break from school, with adventures over the Christmas holidays. (Summar…
The Book of Evelyn
Read by MJ Rodriguez
Geraldine Bonner
"The Book of Evelyn" by Geraldine Bonner follows the journey of Evelyn, a widow who moves back to New York City to start afresh. S…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
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Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
A Yellow Journalist
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001
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Various
LibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
The Gray Mills of Farley
Read by Bellona Times
Sarah Orne Jewett
As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch. (Summary by B…
The Filigree Ball
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bea…
The Corner House Girls
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Grace Brooks Hill
A timeless children's classic. Four girls from eight to fourteen years of age receive word that a rich bachelor uncle has died, leaving the…
Celestina
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Charlotte Turner Smith
Celestina was adopted by Mrs. Willoughby from a convent in France. No one knows who her parents are. Her secret birth causes problems for he…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1
Read by Barbara Baker
Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis
Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…
A Strange Disappearance (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Anna Katharine Green
Housekeeper Mrs. Daniels brings to Detective Ebenezer Gryce and his assistant Q the case of a serving girl who has vanished from the househo…