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Chapter 7: Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
In Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." Ac…
A PASSIVE COQUETTE
Read by Caitlin Kelly
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
In Wives and Daughters
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…
Selected works
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Johanna Ambrosius
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
I Instruct Mr. Merritt
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Elizabeth Kent
In The House Opposite
While trying to escape the heat, a doctor witnesses some strange behavior of his neighbors. Suddenly, everyone and no one become suspects in…
Book 1, Chapter 7, Part 3
Read by Elsie Selwyn
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…
Phillis Wheatley
Read by Darrell Nobles
Abigail Mott
In Narratives of Colored Americans
Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …
The Queen's Fan
Read by Claire Pak
Lizette M. Edholm
In The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan
A new girl from Arizona, a priceless fan gone missing, and a group of girls determined to do good in whatever way they can! Join the Merriwe…
Notes on an Elizabethan Play
Read by Hanna Ponomarenko
Virginia Woolf
In The Common Reader
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…
Chapter 25
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E. Prentiss and Elizabeth Prentiss
In Stepping Heavenward
Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mot…
Camilla
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Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Indissoluble Matrimony
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Rebecca West
In Short Story Collection Vol. 061
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, includ…
A New Old Name
Read by James R. Hedrick
Elizabeth Enright
In Return to Gone-Away
When Portia Blake and her family came back to Gone-Away Lake, it was to move into an old house locked up tightly for nearly half a century. …
To the Reader
Read by Andy Glover
Mary Elizabeth Brown
In Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…
13 - A Mother
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James Joyce
In Dubliners
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
Tokens
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Myrtle Reed
In Sonnets to a Lover
This is a book of poetry by Myrtle Reed. Ms. Reed is most famous for her love stories such as A Spinner in the Sun and Old Rose and Silver, …
Elizabeth Farnese and Alberoni
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
In Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume cover…
29 - Chapter XXIX
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Elizabeth Stoddard
In The Morgesons
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeso…
The Queen
Read by James R. Hedrick
Leigh North
In Predecessors of Cleopatra
This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned …
Chapter 5: David Gets His Answer
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Bertha Thomas
In The House on the Scar
A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…
MISTRESS GLENARE By “Marian”
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Lizzie Doten
In Poems from the Inner Life
Collection of reflective poetry by celebrated medium and clairvoyant, Lizzie Doten. She claims these poems were sent by her 'inner heaven', …