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Title: May Afternoon

Author: Catherine Wells

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Little information survives on Catherine's life. She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872. In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras registery office. In the early years they were poor to the point that they could not afford to start a family. When they did they had two children; Philip in 1901 and Frank two years later. For much of her life she seemed to pursue other interests, being a mother, a gardener, running much of her husband's business affairs and this seemed to leave little time for her own literary pursuits. She published little during her lifetime apart from a few poems and some short stories. Indeed her prodigiously talented husband even referred to her as 'Jane' and soon all around her did too, her writing life seemingly in another personality far, far away. By the mid 20's she was ill with cancer and succumbed to its advance in 1927. Wells, although wayward and promiscuous during much of the marriage, now attempted to put his wife's literary merits into book form and published 'The Book of Catherine Wells', a collection of short stories and poems.

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Title: Marjorie Bowen - A Short Story Collection

Author: Marjorie Bowen

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on the 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire. Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother. However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris. Her first fiction, written at a mere 16, was a violent medieval historical novel, 'The Viper of Milan'. Initially rejected by several publishers it went on to become a best-seller After this her prolific writings were the main financial support for the family. Her literary output numbered over 150 volumes, mainly under the pseudonym of Marjorie Bowen but she also used the names Joseph Shearing, George R Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell. Within this output she assigned the pseudonyms to the various genres she worked across, from Historical fiction to supernatural short stories. Perhaps her best known work is the 1909 book 'Black Magic', a Gothic horror novel about a medieval witch. Several of her works were also adapted into films. She was married twice. The first to Zefferino Emilio Constanza (they had two children), who died of tuberculosis, and then to Arthur L Long (and another two children). Marjorie Bowen died on the 23rd December 1952 at St Charles Hospital in North Kensington, London after suffering a serious concussion from a fall in her bedroom. She was 67. 1 - Marjorie Bowen - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen 3 - Florence Flannery by Marjorie Bowen 4 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen 5 - The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr John Proudie by Marjorie Bowen 6 - The Pleasant Husband by Marjorie Bowen

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Title: Mary Cholmondeley - A Short Story Collection

Author: Mary Cholmondeley

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Jake Urry, Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Cholmondeley was born in Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire on June 8th 1859, the third of eight children. Her father was appointed rector in 1874 in succession to his father. Much of the first 30 years of her life was taken up with helping her sickly mother run the household and her father with parish work, and she herself suffered with asthma. Mary began writing with in her teens. She wrote in her journal in 1877, "What a pleasure and interest it would be to me in life to write books. I must strike out a line of some kind, and if I do not marry (for at best that is hardly likely, as I possess neither beauty nor charms) I should want some definite occupation, besides the home duties." Mary began by publishing some stories in The Graphic and her first novel 'The Danvers Jewels' a detective story followed in 1887. It was followed by Sir Charles Danvers (1889), Diana Tempest (1893). After her father retired in 1896, she moved with him and her sister Diana to Condover Hall before selling it to move to Albert Gate Mansions in Knightsbridge, London. Mary wrote the best seller 'Red Pottage' in 1899. It satirised religious hypocrisy and the conceit of country life. It was denounced as immoral. It also explored female sexuality. During the war she did clerical work in the Carlton House Terrace Hospital. The sisters moved in 1919 to 4 Argyll Road, Kensington, where Mary died, unmarried, on 15th July 1925. 1 - Mary Cholmondeley - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Stars in their Courses by Mary Cholmondeley 3 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav 4 - The Understudy by Mary Cholmondeley 5 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley 6 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmondeley

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Title: Mary Wilkins E Freeman - A Short Story Collection

Author: Mary Wilkins E Freeman

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on the 31st October 1852 to parents who were strict and orthodox Congregationalists. When she was a teenager the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont and it was there she finished her education and began writing verse and stories for children. When the family's dry-goods store closed in 1873 the family, now impoverished, returned to Randolph where her mother was to die mother three years later. She published 'The Ghost Story' in 1881 after it won a short story competition. With elements of the supernatural and domestic realism she had hit upon a solid formula for success. Two years later her father died and with no immediate family and only a small estate she now committed to writing full-time to secure an income. For the times it was a brave move but her undoubted talent meant success would follow. Over her career she published more than two dozen volumes of short stories and novels and is most well-known for 'A New England Nun'. Her works were mainly set in New England and many of her female characters are strong and assertive, challenging contemporary stereotypes over their then roles, values and relationships in society. As a feminist she was keen to engage her audience in a discussion about the lack of control women had over many issues including the family finances. A meeting with the younger Dr. Charles Manning Freeman began a slow, decade long, courtship that endured many obstacles and delays until they eventually married on New Years Day, 1902. They built a home in Metuchen, where Mary was something of a local celebrity. Sadly her husband suffered from alcoholism and addiction to sleeping powders, fast horses and was also prone to womanizing. He was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane and with that the couple separated. After his death in 1923, he left his estate to his chauffeur and one dollar to Mary. On 13th March 1930, Mary E Wilkins Freeman suffered a fatal heart attack in Metuchen. She was 77. 1 - Mary Wilkins E Freeman - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Revolt of Mother by Mary Wilkins E Freeman 3 - A Far Away Melody by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 4 - A Symphony in Lavender by Mary Weilkins E Freeman 5 - The Whist Players by Mary Williams E Freeman 6 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman 7 - A New England Nun by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

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Title: Lady Eleanor Smith - A Short Story Collection

Author: Lady Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Janet Fullerlove, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics. Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate. Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the 'Bright Young Things', a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London. Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called 'musical and broken.' Her life was full of adventure and mishaps. A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father. She was even arrested twice. Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress. Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books. Her first novel, 'Red Wagon', was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller. A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films. Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil. Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a 'warm adherent of General Franco' less so. Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43. 1 - Lady Eleanor Smith - An Introduction 2 - One O'Clock by Lady Eleanor Smith 3 - Tamar by Lady Eleanor Smith 4 - Whittington's Cat by Lady Eleanor Smith

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Title: L T Meade - A Short Story Collection

Author: L. T. Meade

Narrator: Janet Fullerlove, Fiona Mackinnon, Mark Rice-Oxley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

The name L T Meade, a pseudonym for Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, rarely brings a sign of recognition. Although she wrote mainly for young girls she also wrote across many genres including sensational, religious, historical, adventure and romances. In all, her credits add up to over 300 titles. Born in Brandon, County Cork in Ireland in 1844 she began her prolific career as a writer when she was a mere 17 years of age and was first published in 1872. In 1879 she married Alfred Toulmin Smith and moved to London with him. Meade also wrote many works with several male co-authors, edited a popular girl's magazine 'Atlanta' and was a socially active feminist in the struggle for equal rights. She died in 1914 at the age of 70. 1 - L T Meade - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Blue Laboratory by L T Meade 3 - The Outside Ledge. A Cablegram Mystery by L T Meade and Robert Eustace 4 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace 5 - The Woman with the Hood by L T Meade 6 - Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

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Title: In a Walled Garden

Author: Catherine Wells

Narrator: Kathryn Vinclaire, Ghizela Rowe

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 30 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Little information survives on Catherine's life. She was born Amy Catherine Robbins in 1872. In about 1892 she was a student in a biology cramming class where the teacher was H G Wells. Though married he was quickly attracted to his student and within a short time they were living together in Woking, Surrey. He then divorced his first wife and married Catherine in October 1895 at St Pancras registery office. In the early years they were poor to the point that they could not afford to start a family. When they did they had two children; Philip in 1901 and Frank two years later. For much of her life she seemed to pursue other interests, being a mother, a gardener, running much of her husband's business affairs and this seemed to leave little time for her own literary pursuits. She published little during her lifetime apart from a few poems and some short stories. Indeed her prodigiously talented husband even referred to her as 'Jane' and soon all around her did too, her writing life seemingly in another personality far, far away. By the mid 20's she was ill with cancer and succumbed to its advance in 1927. Wells, although wayward and promiscuous during much of the marriage, now attempted to put his wife's literary merits into book form and published 'The Book of Catherine Wells', a collection of short stories and poems.

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Title: The Green Bowl

Author: Sarah Orne Jewett

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lefkow

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 46 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born on 3rd September 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, to a family that had resided in New England for several generations. From early childhood Jewett suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and one remedy was frequent walks which contributed to her life-long love of nature. She was primarily educated at Miss Olive Rayne's school and then the Berwick Academy from where she graduated in 1866. But much of her time was also spent reading from the extensive collection of books in the family library. In 1868 at age 19, she was published 'Jenny Garrow's Lovers' in the Atlantic Monthly, and from this grew a reputation that was lauded and admired by both her captivated audience and such other noted writers as William Dean Howells. As well as novels and short stories she also wrote children's books and poetry volumes. Jewett was also admired for the strong female characters who were as intelligent and able as any man around them. In her personal life Jewett was attracted and attached to several women. Many of her poems reveal the intensity of her feelings towards them. Whether Jewett found physical love with them is open to debate but she often did find devoted and loving friendship, humor and literary encouragement. From 1881, after the death of James Fields, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, she set up home with his widow, Annie, for the rest of her life in what was termed 'a Boston Marriage'; the cohabitation of two wealthy women, independent of male financial support. On her birthday in 1902, Jewett was involved in a carriage accident that effectively ended her literary career. In March 1909 Sarah Orne Jewett was paralyzed by a stroke, and after another on 24th June she died in her South Berwick home. She was 59.

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Title: H D Everett - A Short Story Collection

Author: H D Everett

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Henrietta Dorothy Huskisson was born in January 1851 in Gillingham, Kent. Little reliable information on her life is available and almost nothing on her early life. However, at age 18 she married the solicitor Isaac Edward Everett. It was only at the age of 44 that she began her literary career under the pseudonym of Theo Douglas, a popular device in a society that still frowned upon women writing for income. During her lifetime she was a popular author and wrote 22 books and those were published by 17 different publishers. Although she wrote some historical novels her main influence was centered on fantasy and supernatural themes. Henrietta Dorothy Everett died in Weston-on-Trent in Derbyshire in September 1923. 1 - H D Everett - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - A Perplexing Case by H D Everett 3 - Beyond the Pale by H D Everett 4 - Over the Wires by H D Everett 5 - The Whispering Wall by H D Everett 6 - The Lonely Road by H D Everett 7 - The Death Mask by H D Everett

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Title: Elinor Mordaunt - A Short Story Collection

Author: Elinor Mordaunt

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Lisa Bowerman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2024

Genres: Contemporary Women

Publisher's Summary:

Evelyn May Clowes was born on 7th May 1872 in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire. Growing up in genteel circumstances, her early childhood was spent at Charlton Down House near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and her teenage years near Heythrop in the Cotswolds. She was educated at home by governesses, excelling at German, Latin, Greek, shorthand, landscape painting, and fabric and wallpaper design. In 1897 she went to Mauritius as companion to her cousin Caroline and in 1898 married Maurice Wilhemn Wiehe, the owner of a sugar plantation. She gave birth to two stillborn children. After a few years of marriage, she found life difficult and returned to England. Shortly afterwards she went by herself to Australia, arriving in June 1902 and gave birth to a son a few months later. She lived in Melbourne for about eight years. To earn a living she took on a wide and varied range of jobs; she edited a woman's fashion paper, wrote short stories and articles, made blouses, designed embroideries, tilled gardens, acted as a housekeeper, and did other artistic work. Her health was not strong, but she undertook any kind of work which would provide a living for herself and her infant son. This gained her an experience of life which was readily put to use in her literary works. Her first book, 'The Garden of Contentment', was published in 1902 under her pen-name Elinor Mordaunt. It was the first of many works that covered fiction, short stories, travel and autobiography. She changed her name by deed poll to Evelyn May Mordaunt on 1st July 1915 and gained a further reputation as a writer of short stories for magazines which display both her humour and sense of tragedy. Travel was always high on her priority and the experiences used not only for pleasure but in her writings and, as travel books, ideas in themselves. On 27th January 1933 at Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, she married a retired barrister from Gloucestershire. In her own words, the marriage 'ended in tragedy.' Elinor Mordaunt died on 25th June 1942 at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. She was 70. 1 - Elinor Mordaunt - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 2 - The Landlady by Elinor Mordaunt 3 - The Villa by Elinor Mordaunt 4 - The Inspired 'Busman by Elinor Mordaunt 5 - Luz by Elinor Mordaunt 6 - Hodge by Elinor Mordaunt