Victorian Memoirs
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Ladies of the Canyons
- 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
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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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Stunning Tale of Surprising Women
- By L. Nicholson on 03-30-18
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Ladies of the Canyons
- A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-20-18
- Language: English
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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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The King in Love
- Edward VII's Mistresses
- By: Theo Aronson
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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The King in Love is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII - as prince of Wales and as king. It is also a study of the three women with whom the king was most deeply in love - his "official" mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, and Alice Keppel.
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good read, bad listen
- By Robyn on 09-11-15
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The King in Love
- Edward VII's Mistresses
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-28-15
- Language: English
- An all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII....
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One Hot Summer
- Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
- By: Rosemary Ashton
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence.
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A very good history.
- By Mack Tennyson on 02-13-19
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One Hot Summer
- Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-01-17
- Language: English
- Historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory that London in 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points....
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The Invention of Murder
- 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
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Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- By Janalyn on 03-14-20
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-04-19
- Language: English
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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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Jennie
- 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
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Sourcebooks is bringing the internationally acclaimed New York Times bestseller back for a new generation of listeners. 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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Excellent
- By appreciative reader on 02-13-23
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Jennie
- 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
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 26 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-07-22
- Language: English
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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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The Complete Jack the Ripper
- By: Donald Rumbelow
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected every theory - including those that have emerged in recent years-to the same deep scrutiny. The author also examines the mythology surrounding the case and provides some fascinating insights into the portrayal of the Ripper on stage and screen and on the printed page. More seriously, he also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Düsseldorf Ripper and the Yorkshire Ripper.
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catch the facts if you can
- By Alexandra on 11-17-19
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The Complete Jack the Ripper
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-31-18
- Language: English
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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 Sins of Jack Saul (Second Edition)
- The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
- By: Glenn Chandler
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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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, Jack Saul, a working-class, Irish-Catholic rent boy who worked his way into the upper echelons of the aristocracy, and wrote the notorious pornographic memoir The Sins of the Cities of the Plain.
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dull, with endless rambling
- By soltex41 on 04-23-22
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The Sins of Jack Saul (Second Edition)
- The True Story of Dublin Jack and The Cleveland Street Scandal
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-09-21
- Language: English
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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....
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine, and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, but it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told.
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Everyone needs to read/listen to this book
- By AAHickman on 12-05-19
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-08-19
- Language: English
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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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Eminent Victorians
- By: Lytton Strachey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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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. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends.
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Lytton Strachey should thank Jonathan Keeble...
- By Ted on 05-06-24
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Eminent Victorians
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 10-26-20
- Language: English
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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....
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The Wicked Boy
- The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Early in the morning of Monday, July 8, 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother, Nattie, set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbors, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next 10 days, Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning their parents' valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. But as the sun beat down on the Coombes house, a strange smell began to emanate.
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Amazing True Story
- By Lisa Belle on 01-08-17
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The Wicked Boy
- The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 07-12-16
- Language: English
- 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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This Victorian Life
- Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
- By: Sarah A. Chrisman
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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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? How do interactions with antique objects influence perceptions of the modern world?
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Not Adorable Just Strange
- By Eric on 04-11-16
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This Victorian Life
- Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-24-15
- Language: English
- 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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Murderesses in Victorian Britain
- By: Christina Croft
- Narrated by: Tim Fearon
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Who lived to regret her "deathbed" confession? Was Amelia Dyer mad or wicked? Why did the judiciary look compassionately on women who committed infanticide? 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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Very informative!
- By Jennifer l Clarkson on 02-25-23
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Murderesses in Victorian Britain
- Narrated by: Tim Fearon
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-11-21
- Language: English
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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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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- By: Michelle Morgan
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- By Emily Stoneking on 11-27-18
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
- A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences....
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The Butchering Art
- 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
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In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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Not one boring moment!
- By WRF on 12-22-17
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-31-17
- Language: English
- 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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The Canary Trainer
- From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
- By: Nicholas Meyer
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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While employed as a violinist by the Paris Opera in 1891, Sherlock Holmes discovers many surprises: the reappearance of his great love and a series of bizarre accidents allegedly arranged by the "Opera Ghost", an opponent more than equal to Holmes in cunning.
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Proof It Can Be Done!
- By Troy on 08-16-13
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The Canary Trainer
- From the Memoirs of John H. Watson
- Narrated by: David Case
- Series: Nicholas Meyer Holmes Pastiches, Book 3
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 07-02-09
- Language: English
- While employed as a violinist by the Paris Opera in 1891, Sherlock Holmes discovers many surprises....
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A Natural History of Dragons
- A Memoir by Lady Trent
- By: Marie Brennan
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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You, dear listener, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart - no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a dragon's presence, even for the briefest of moments - even at the risk of one's life - is a delight that, once experienced, can never be forgotten….All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist.
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A Fantastical, Scientific, and Captivating Joy Ride
- By Abbygail on 03-06-16
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A Natural History of Dragons
- A Memoir by Lady Trent
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Series: Memoirs by Lady Trent, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 11-15-13
- Language: English
- You, dear listener, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart - no more so than the study of dragons itself....
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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene
- Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian
- By: Helen Batten
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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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. From humble working-class beginnings, Emily's fiery ambition would see her counting the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Charles Dickens as friends and mingling with the Rothschilds, Oscar Wilde and aristocrats. She even alleged that she had a close encounter with Jack the Ripper.
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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene
- Actress, Writer and Rebel Victorian
- 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....
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Behind the Throne
- A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
- By: Adrian Tinniswood
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the listener on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis.
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Very Worthwhile
- By G. Cole on 12-13-18
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Behind the Throne
- A Domestic History of the British Royal Household
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-06-18
- Language: English
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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....
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Towards the end of the 19th century and for the first few years of the 20th, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, 50 years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known "Dollar Princess", married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage....
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Bondfide Valuable History Lesson
- By A reader lives a thousand lives before they die. on 09-21-18
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The Husband Hunters
- American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-07-18
- Language: English
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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....
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The Victorian and the Romantic
- A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
- By: Nell Stevens
- Narrated by: Nell Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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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. As Nell's romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career.
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So promising, but...
- By Anne on 08-19-18
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The Victorian and the Romantic
- A Memoir, a Love Story, and a Friendship Across Time
- Narrated by: Nell Stevens
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-07-18
- Language: English
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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....
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