Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

Read by Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe(Unabridged: 12:15mins)

Featuring stories by Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell & 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 4 - An Introduction

02 - In the Mist by Mary E Penn

03 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

04 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

05 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk

06 - The Black Crusader by Alicia Ramsay

07 - Joseph by Katherine Rickford

02 - The Last of Squire Ennismore by Charlotte Riddell

09 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

10 - The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley

07 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter

12 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson

13 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair

14 - Satan's Circus by Lady Eleanor Smith

15 - The Moonstone Mass by Harriet Prescott Spofford

16 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton

17 - The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane

18 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn

19 - The Name Tree by Mary Webb

12 - Fear by Catherine Wells

21 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton

22 - Waxworks by Ethel Lina White

23 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood

24 - The Legacy by Virginia Woolf