Victorian Memoirs

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    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

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    • Edward VII's Mistresses
    • By: Theo Aronson
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • An all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII....

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    • Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
    • By: Rosemary Ashton
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....

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    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

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    • The Life of the American Beauty Who Became the Toast—and Scandal—of Two Continents, Ruled an Age and Raised a Son—Winston Churchill—Who Shaped History
    • By: Ralph G. Martin
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Jennie Churchill was not merely Winston’s mother. She was the most captivating and desired woman of her age. Originally from Brooklyn, Jennie became the reigning queen of British society. Beautiful and defiant, she lived with an honesty that made her the talk of two continents....

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    • By: Donald Rumbelow
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions, and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history....

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    • The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
    • By: Glenn Chandler
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The Cleveland Street scandal, involving a homosexual brothel reputedly visited by the queen's grandson, shocked Victorian Britain in 1889. This is the first full-length account of one of its key players....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    • By: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Louise Brealey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,400 ratings
    • Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper....

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    • By: Lytton Strachey
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre....

    Regular price: $24.18

    • The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
    • By: Kate Summerscale
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality. It is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case but also a compelling account of its aftermath....

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    • Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
    • By: Sarah A. Chrisman
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it's spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history? Find out....

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    • By: Christina Croft
    • Narrated by: Tim Fearon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Among over 80 women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged....

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    • Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • By: Lindsey Fitzharris
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,428 ratings
    • In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation....

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    • Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian
    • By: Helen Batten
    • Narrated by: Jilly Bond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresario with her own opera company, she was a darling of London’s music halls and theatre land, later reinventing herself as a journalist and writer....

    Regular price: $28.46

    • A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
    • By: Adrian Tinniswood
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the listener on a journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads....

    Regular price: $28.79

    • American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Clare Corbett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 687 ratings
    • The Husband Hunters is a deliciously told historical audiobook about the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the 20th century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
    • By: Nell Stevens
    • Narrated by: Nell Stevens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love - Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris....

    Regular price: $15.75