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Wonder Of Women - The Darker Sex

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by George Eliot, George Eliot, Edith Nesbit, Elinor Mordaunt, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Bessie Kyffin Taylor, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary E Penn, Lettice Galbraith, Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens0, Violet Jacob1, Clotilde Graves writing as Richard Dehan2, Mary Elizabeth Braddon3, Fanny Kemble Johnson4, Violet Quirk5, Charlotte Riddell6, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps7, Fernan Caballeron8, Sarah Orne Jewett9 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow0, Lisa Bowerman1, Robert Maskell2 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Mary Butts, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, Emily Bronte, Holloway Horn, Mary Austin, Mrs Ernest Leverson, Frances E Huntley, Georgia F Stewart, Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham, Violet Quirk, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Louisa Baldwin, Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton, Victoria Earle Matthews, Mary Russell Mitford, Lady Augusta Gregory, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Catherine Anne Dawson Scott, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Katharine Butler, Elsie Norris, Maude K Griffin, Annie McCary, Winifred Holtby, Mary Anne Hoare, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Olive Schreiner, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton, Ruth D Todd, Elia W Peattie, Catherine Wells, Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird, Charlotte Bronte, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster, Gertrude Atherton ...

Narrated by Kelly Burke, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 23 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The US Authors of the South

The top ten Short Stories of all time written by American authors born in the South

by Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, O Henry, Ellen Glasgow, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Robert E Howard, Rudolph Fisher, Ruth D Todd, Thomas Wolfe ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Warren Keyes, Kelly Burke ...

Unabridged

6 hours 1 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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Wonder of Women - The Darker Sex

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by George Eliot, Francis Stevens, Violet Jacob, Clotilde Graves, Louisa Baldwin, Emily Bronte, Lettice Galbraith, Mary E Penn, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Lady Eleanor Smith, Bessie Kyffin Taylor, Elinor Mordaunt, May Sinclair, Edith Nesbit, Fernan Caballeron, Violet Quirk, Charlotte Riddell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

11 hours 42 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 6

Embrace the darkness

by William Hope Hodgson, E T A Hoffman, Tom Hood, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Anthony Hope, Violet Hunt, William Hunt, C J Cutcliffe Hyne, Washington Irving, Violet Jacob, W W Jacobs, M R James, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Franz Kafka, W G Kelly, Arabella Kenealy, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Rudyard Kipling, Perceval Landon, Sheridan Le Fanu ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Strange Looking Man, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Fanny Kemble Johnson ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

9 min

The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Fanny Kemble Johnson. ... Read more

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The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Fanny Kemble Johnson.
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – The 1910’s

Embrace the darkness

by Franz Kafka, Aleister Crowley, Edith Wharton, Achmed Abdullah, W F Harvey, Saki, Richard Le Gallienne, William Hope Hodgson, Ulric Daubeny, E F Benson, Sax Rohmer, Katherine Rickford, E G Swain, Fanny Kemble Johnson, John Chilton, Rose Champion de Crespigny, Violet Hunt, Ivan Bunin, M P Shiel, Richard Middleton, Catherine Wells, F G Loring, Bram Stoker ...

Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 3

Lucy Hamilton Hooper to Elia W Peattie

by Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Violet Hunt, Violet Jacob, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Arabella Kenealy, Jessie Douglas Kerruish, Amy Levy, Mary E Mann, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Charlotte Mew, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Elinor Mordaunt, Rosa Mulholland, Edith Nesbit, Elsie Norris, Margaret Oliphant, Violet Paget, Elia W Peattie ...

Narrated by Janet Fullerlove, Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows – Involving Children

Embrace the darkness

by Mary E Mann, Arabella Kenealy, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Louisa Baldwin, L T Meade and Robert Eustace, Thomas Hardy ...

Narrated by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

3 hours 41 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Fables for Adults

Anyone who keeps learning stays young

by Fanny Kemble Johnson, Henry James, Herman Melville, Hristo Smirenski, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Schedrin, Oscar Wilde, Richard Garnett, The Brothers Grimm, Voltaire, Winifred Holtby ...

Narrated by Eric Myers, Kelly O'Doherty, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

As we grow from child to adult we are usually told short stories which soften and help us understand the vital information a story has to impart. It’s a clever concept by saying one thing―many times with an animal protagonist―and meaning another. In adult years these stories continue along the same lines but what they are really saying is that what you see is not always what you get.Words from the ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

As we grow from child to adult we are usually told short stories which soften and help us understand the vital information a story has to impart. It’s a clever concept by saying one thing―many times with an animal protagonist―and meaning another. In adult years these stories continue along the same lines but what they are really saying is that what you see is not always what you get.Words from the
... Read more
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Stories From the Shadows - Human Cruelty

Embrace the darkness

by Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Bunin, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Prosper Merimee, Gustav Meyrink, Fanny Kemble Johnson, William Mudford, Ella D'Arcy, Elia W Peattie ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$23.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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Female Short Story, The - A Chronological History - Volume 7

May Sinclair to Mary Austin

by Baroness Orczy, Netta Syrett, Fanny Kemble Johnson ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Tanya Thomson, Eric Meyers ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re ... Read more

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A wise man once said ‘The safest place for a child is in the arms of his mother’s voice’. This is a perfect place to start our anthology of female short stories.Some of our earliest memories are of our mothers telling us bedtime stories. This is not to demote the value of fathers but more to promote the often-overshadowed talents of the gentler sex.Perhaps ‘gentler’ is a word that we should re
... Read more

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Wonder Of Women - The Darker Sex

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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The US Authors of the South

Wonder of Women - The Darker Sex

Stories From The Shadows - Volume 6

Strange Looking Man, The

Stories From The Shadows – The 1910’s

Her Dark Materials - Volume 3

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