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The Annals of Ann
Read by CJ Plogue
Kate Trimble Sharber
As the only “surviving” child of her parents, Ann is considered by close friends and family to be an overly indulged child. Some say she is …
Putting the Most Into Life
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Booker T. Washington
The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This warm, affectionate duet of essays by two of the early twentieth century's most popular writers is a bit dated but still entertaining. …
Lady Anna
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…
Something New
Read by Debra Lynn
P. G. Wodehouse
When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willi…
The Wyndham Case By Jill Paton Walsh
Dramatised by Neville Teller. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, …
The Spinster Book
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Myrtle Reed
A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…
Summer
Read by Robin Cotter
Edith Wharton
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity …
Love Stories
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Ailing and Impatient Patients, Nurturing Nurses, and familial bond. A collection of Love affairs, young and old, deftly told by "Americ…
Eleanor's Victory
Read by Eleanor Howard
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
English Literature
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Geraldine Hodgson
This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…
Elsie Venner
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
The Favor of Kings
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Mary Hastings Bradley
"Never have bright romance and black scandal been more attached to the name of lovely woman," writes a quaint and susceptible chro…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers
Read by Luke Sartor
Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
The Heart of Philura
Read by Anne Fletcher
Florence Morse Kingsley
(Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women worki…
Red Pottage
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
The book follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with th…