Louisa May Alcott to Rebecca Harding Davis

Read by Laurel Lefkow, Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 11:25mins)

Featuring stories by Louisa May Alcott, Alice and Claude Askew, Mary Anne Atherstone, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin & many more

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 characters into dark and disturbing quite horrific narratives.

01 - Her Dark Materials - Volume 1 - An Introduction

02 - Lost in a Pyramid (or the Mummy's Curse) by Louisa May Alcott writing as A M Bernard

03 - The Mystery of Chenholt by Alice and Claude Askew

04 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird

05 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav

06 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin

07 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin

08 - A Dreamer by Barbara Baynton

09 - Behind the Curtain by Gertrude Barrows Bennett writing as Francis Stevens

10 - The Awakening by Stella Benson

11 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

04 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

13 - Couching at the Door by D K Broster

14 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton

15 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler

16 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts

17 - The Devil's Mother-in-Law by Fernan Caballeron

18 - Paul's Case by Willa Cather

13 - Her Murderer by Mary Cholmonderly

09 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik

21 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

22 - Number Ninety by Bithia Mary Croker

23 - The First Evening by Catherine Crowe

24 - Villa Lucienne by Ella D'Arcy

25 - The Shipwrecked Crew by Rebecca Harding Davies