Memoirs

Elsie's Girlhood

by Martha Finley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Elsie's Girlhood follows the journey of Elsie Dinsmore as she navigates the complexities of adolescence and early adulthood. Spanning from t…

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

by William Henry Davies Read by Expatriate 4.8
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part…

Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

by Saint Jane Frances De Chantal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (1572 – 1641) is a Roman Catholic Saint, who founded The Congregation of the Visitation after the death of her…

The Promised Land

by Mary Antin Read by Bridget Gaige 4.6
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found …

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

by Lindsay Anderson Read by David Wales 4.5
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

A Little Swiss Sojourn

by William Dean Howells Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.4
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…

Memoir of Jane Austen

by James Edward Austen-Leigh Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …

Tales of a Traveller

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

by Isabel Anderson Read by William Tomcho 4.6
In The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, Isabel Anderson invites listeners on a captivating journey through the enchanting …

A Rogue's Life

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

by Harriet E. Wilson Read by Bridget Gaige 4.5
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…

Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

by John D. Rockefeller Read by William Tomcho 4.2
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events offers a unique glimpse into the life and thoughts of John D. Rockefeller, one of the most influentia…

A New England Girlhood

by Lucy Larcom Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mill-worker. According to Wikipedia: "Larcom served as a model for the change in women's…

The Golden Age

by Kenneth Grahame Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

The Wound Dresser

by Walt Whitman Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.6
The Wound Dresser offers a poignant glimpse into the heart of the American Civil War through the eyes of Walt Whitman. This collection of le…

The Uncommercial Traveller

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new …

The Backwoods of Canada

by Catharine Parr Traill Read by Esther 4.5
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

Three Girls in a Flat

by Enid Yandell Read by Lee Ann Howlett 4.5
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1870 - June 13, 1934) was an American sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies. She…

A Year With the Saints

by Anonymoustranslated Bya Member Of The Order Of Mercy, Anonymoustranslated By A Member Of The Order Of Mercy and William James McGlothlin Read by Maria Therese 4.6
Go through the year in the footsteps of the saints. This book emphasizes one virtue for each month with quotes and stories from the lives of…

Child Life in Colonial Days

by Alice Morse Earle Read by Susan Morin 4.4
The accounts of old-time child life gathered for this book are wholly unconscious and full of honesty and simplicity, not only from the atti…

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