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Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Robert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Bristol. A poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets". Although his fame has been eclipsed by that of his friends William Wordsworth and...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in...
Read by Bill Hootkins (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) The Bostonians is set ten years after the end of the American Civil War. The North had been victorious because of its industrial strength, but could not live up to the ideals for which it fought. James satirizes the North’s moral decline in...
Read by Jenny Agutter (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) In this classic Victorian novel, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the themes of love and social justice in an industrial age. Set in the north of England, out-of-towner Margaret Hale finds herself simultaneously attracted to mill owner John Thorton, and repulsed by the way he...
Read by Carole Boyd & David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) When a beautiful young woman, thought to be recently widowed, suddenly moves into the half ruined Wildfell Hall with her five year old son, young squire Gilbert Markham and the local residents are intrigued. Gilbert meets the aloof newcomer Helen...
Read by Richard Burton, Robert Hardy & John Neville (Abridged: 53mins) Samuel Taylor Coleridge stands tall among the pantheon of legendary English poets. Born in 1772 was a founder of the Romantic Movement and a member of the Lake Poets. Among the poems we bring you no this audiobooks are...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). An author in the early years of the century who brought his skills of pen and eye to...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) Amy Levy was born in London, England in 1861, the second of seven in a fairly wealthy Anglo-Jewish family. The children read and participated in secular literary activities and became firmly integrated into Victorian life. Her education was at Brighton High...
Read by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 10mins) Herman Melville was born in New York City on 1st August 1819. At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which permanently diminished his eyesight. Add this to a contemporary description of being "very backwards in speech...
Read by Gareth David-Lloyd, Ian Fairbairn & Geoffrey Balydon (Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) M.R. James, the greatest English writer of ghost stories, was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate, and spent most of his boyhood at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia,...