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Neglected Authors, The - Women - Volume 3

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Hannah More, Rosa Mulholland, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Ada Radford, Charlotte Riddell, Olive Schreiner, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair0, Georgia F Stewart1, Netta Syrett2, Ruth D Todd3, Mary Webb4, Catherine Wells5, Eudora Welty6, Leonara Wodehouse7 ...

Narrated by Marie-Pierre8, Elliot Fitzpatrick9, Laurel Ross0 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Social Voices

The Cultural Politics of Singers around the Globe

by Jeff Todd Titon, Ruth Hellier, Anthony Seeger, Treva B. Lindsey, Nancy Guy, Carol Muller, Elijah Wald, Andrew Simon, John Lie0, Eric Lott1, Christina D Abreu2, Carol Silverman3, Michael K Bourdaghs4, Kwame Dawes5, Natalie Sarrazin6, Katherine Meizel7 ...

Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly SillsAround the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - Murder Stories

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Baroness Orczy, Susan Glaspell, Edith Nesbit, Amelia Edwards, Amelia Edwards, Amelia Edwards, Lady Eleanor Smith, Pauline E Hopkins, Edith Stewart Drewery, Winifred Holtby, Ruth D Todd0, Arabella Kenealy1, Ethel Lina White2, Mary E Mann3, Baroness Emmuska Orczy4 ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow5, Richard Mitchley6, Mark Rice-Oxley7 ...

Unabridged

9 hours 10 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

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
The Diversity Agenda

Lessons and Guidance from the Legal Profession

by Wesley D Bizzell, Rosalie Chamberlain, Ruth Grant, Karen Johnson-McKewan, Sharon E Jones, Charlotte Ogilvie, Todd Sears, Yasmin Sheikh, Daniel K Winterfeldt ...

In both law firms and other businesses, the conversation around organisational diversity is in many ways more fervent, active, and engaged than ever before. Prominent figures in the profession make bold declarations about their belief in the positive contribution increased diversity brings, and firm websites are not considered complete without a visible commitment to improve their inclusivity. It ... Read more

$215.99 USD

In both law firms and other businesses, the conversation around organisational diversity is in many ways more fervent, active, and engaged than ever before. Prominent figures in the profession make bold declarations about their belief in the positive contribution increased diversity brings, and firm websites are not considered complete without a visible commitment to improve their inclusivity. It
... 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

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing With Racism

Learn from the oldest form of communication and education - storytelling

by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Louisa May Alcott, Annie McCary, Ruth D Todd, Martha Gruening, Lydia Maria Child, Charles W Chesnutt, Pauline E Hopkins, Rudolph Fisher ...

Narrated by Darrell Joe, Ghizela Rowe, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings.In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - American Women

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Gertrude Atherton, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Frances Watkins Harper, Pauline E Hopkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Georgia F Stewart, Ruth D Todd, Eudora Welty ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Kelly Burke, Liza ross ...

Unabridged

5 hours 41 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Audiobook

Octoroon’s Revenge, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Ruth D Todd ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

19 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 Ruth D Todd. ... Read more

$1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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 Ruth D Todd.
... Read more
Audiobook

Top 10 Short Stories – The 1900’s – The Women, The

The top ten Short Stories of the 1900's written by female authors

by Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Edith Nesbit, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Pauline E Hopkins, Ruth D Todd, Somerville and Ross ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Stephen Hogan ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 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

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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Neglected Authors, The - Volume 6

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Charlotte Riddell, William Pett Ridge, Tod Robbins, Nikolai Schedrin, Friedrich Schiller, Olive Schreiner, Marcel Schwob, S T Semyonov, M P Shiel, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Fyodor Sologub, Georgia F Stewart, Frank R Stockton, Netta Syrett, Booth Tarkington, Wallace Thurman, Ruth D Todd, Giovanni Verga, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Eudora Welty, Leonara Wodehouse, Israel Zangwill, Stefan Zweig ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
Audiobook

Neglected Authors, The - North American Women

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Frances Watkins Harper, Pauline E Hopkins, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Gertrude Atherton, Susan Glaspell, Georgia F Stewart, Ellen Glasgow, Ruth D Todd, Mollie Frank Bloch, Zona Gale, Eudora Welty, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Mary Boyle O'Reilly, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Kelly Burke, Warren Keyes ...

Unabridged

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these ... Read more

$19.99 USD

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these
... Read more

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