Period Drama

Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination
by Catherine Grace Frances Gore


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This is a LibriVox recording of Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination by Catherine Grace Frances Gore.

Read in English by Helen Taylor


Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent, and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her family. She is acutely aware of social distinctions, proud of her power and prestige, and stands on her dignity to the point of becoming cold, judgemental, and aloof. Her character flaws bring her into conflict with her children when her son Arthur announces his choice of a wife who is very much below their rank, and much will happen before Mrs Armytage learns to repent her behaviour.

This summery by Helen Taylor

Mrs. Catherine Gore was foremost among the writers of 'Silver Fork' or 'fashionable' novels, hugely popular in the early 1800s.

These chronicled the romances and scandals of the upper classes during the Regency period. Gore's work drew criticism from her contemporaries for being rather superficial, but even her critics acknowledged her often brilliant characterization and gift for satire.

Today, when Regency romances have become so popular, as period dramas, Mrs. Gore is long overdue for a revival, and 'Mrs. Armytage', one of her best works, offers rich rewards to the reader.

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Superb period drama in the classical style of the genre.
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book 1 chapter 1 of cecilia this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by nikki sullivan cecilia memoirs of an heiress by fanny bernie book 1 chapter 1 peace to the spirits of my honored parents respected be their remains and immortalized their virtues may time while it mortars their frail relics to dust commit to tradition the record of their goodness and oh may their orphan descendant be influenced through life by the remembrance of their purity and be solaced in death that by her it was unsullied such was the secret prayer with which the only survivor of the beverly family quitted the abode of her youth and residents of her forefathers while tears of recollecting sorrow filled her eyes and obstructed the last view of her native town which had excited them cecilia this fair traveler had lately entered into the one and twentieth year of her age her ancestors had been rich farmers in the country of suffolk though her father in whom a spirit of elegance had supplanted the rapacity of wealth had spent his time as a private country gentleman satisfied without increasing his store to live upon what he inherited from the labors of his predecessors she had lost him in her early youth and her mother had not long survived him they had bequeathed to her ten thousand pounds and consigned her to the care of the dean of her uncle with this gentleman in whom by various contingencies the accumulated possessions of a rising and prosperous family were centered she had passed the last four years of her life and a few weeks only had yet elapsed since his death which by depriving her of her last relation made her the heiress to an estate of three thousand pounds per annum with no other restriction than that of annexing her name if she married to the disposal of her hand and her riches but though thus largely indebted to fortune to nature she had yet greater obligations her form was elegant her heart was liberal her countenance announced the intelligence of her mind her complexion varied with every emotion of her soul and her eyes the heralds of her speech now beamed with understanding and now glistened with sensibility for the short period of her minority the management of her fortune in the care of her person had by the dean been entrusted to three guardians among whom her own choice was to settle her residence but her mind saddened by the loss of all her natural friends coveted to regain its serenity in the quietness of the country and in the bosom of an aged and maternal counselor whom she loved as her mother and to whom she had been known from her childhood the deanery indeed she was obliged to relinquish a long repining expectant being eager by entering it to bequeath to another the anxiety and suspense he had suffered himself though probably without much impatience to shorten their duration in favor of the next successor but the house of mrs charlton her benevolent friend was open for her reception and the alleviating tenderness of her conversation took from her all wish of changing it here she had dwelt since the internment of her uncle and here from the affectionate gratitude of her disposition she had perhaps been content to dwell till her own had not her guardians interfered to remove her reluctantly she complied she quitted her early companions the friends she most revered and the spot which contained the relics of all she had lived to lament and accompanied by one of her guardians and attended by two servants she began her journey from bury to london mr harold this gentleman though in the prime of his life though gay fashionable and splendid had been appointed by her uncle to be one of her...

Recording of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë. Read by Ruth Golding.
Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.

chapter 10 of wuthering heights this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by ruth golding wuthering heights by emily bronte chapter 10 a charming introduction to a hermit's life four weeks torture tossing and sickness oh these bleak winds and bitter northern skies and roads and dilitary country surgeons and oh this dearth of the human physiology and worst in all the terrible intimation of kenneth that i need not expect to be out of doors till spring

mr heathcliff has just honored me with a call about seven days ago he sent me a brace of grass the last of the season scoundrel he is not altogether guiltless in this illness of mine and that i had a great mind to tell him but alas how could i offend a man who was charitable enough to sit at my bedside a good hour and talk on some other subject and pills and drafts blisters and leeches this is quite an easy interval i am too weak to read yet i feel as if i could enjoy something interesting why not have up mrs dean to finish her tale i can recollect its chief incidents as far as she had gone yes i remember her hero had run off and never been heard of for three years and the heroine was married i'll ring she'll be delighted to find me capable of talking cheerfully mrs dean came at once 20 minutes sir to take him the medicine she commenced away away with it i replied i desire to have the doctor says you must drop the powders with all my heart don't interrupt me come and take your seat here keep your fingers from that bitter phalanx of vials draw your knitting out of your pocket that will do now continue the history of mr heathcliff from where you left off to the present day did he finish his education on the continent and come back a gentleman or did he get a sizes place at college or escape to america and earn honours by drawing blood from his foster country or make a fortune more promptly on the english highways he may have done a little in all these vocations mr lockwood but i couldn't give my word for any i stated before that i didn't know how he gained his money neither am i aware of the means he took to raise his mind from the savage ignorance into which it was sunk but with your leave i'll proceed in my own fashion if you think it will amuse and not wear you are you feeling better this morning much that's good news

i got miss katherine and myself to thrush cross grange and to my agreeable disappointment she behaved infinitely better than i dared to expect she seemed almost over fond of mr linton and even to his sister she showed plenty of affection they were both very attentive to her comfort certainly it was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn there were no mutual concessions one stood erect and the others yielded and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference i observed that mr edgar had a deep-rooted fear of ruffling her humor he concealed it from her but if ever he heard me answer sharply or saw any other servant grow cloudy at some imperious order of hers he would show his trouble by a frown of displeasure that never darkened on his own account he many a time spoke sternly to me about my purpose and have heard that the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed not to grieve a kind master i learned to be less touchy and for the space of half a year the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand because no fire came near to explode it catherine had seasons of gloom and silence now and then they were respected with sympathizing silence by her husband who ascribed them to an alteration in her constitution produced by her perilous illness as she was never subject to depression of spirits before the return of sunshine was welcomed by...

A wonderful novel that was turned into a very famous movie. Superbly read and evoking the times, a historic capsule of tragedy and love.

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A fantasic but tragic talking book in episodic chapters from the Tale Teller Club for literature and Music.

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Brilliant daily recordings of Wuthering Heights 7 Free Audiobook Recording by Emily Brontë Read by Ruth Golding Talking Book from the Tale Teller Club.

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The Tale Teller Club daily upload today is a Free Audiobook Recording of Wuthering Heights 5 by Emily Brontë Read by Ruth Golding. Tragic unrequited love and period drama make this famous must-read classic.

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A tragic tale of unrequited love but Tale Teller Club thinks we all need to listen to this classic.

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