Audiobooks by Gertrude Atherton

Wonder Of Women - To Make A Long Story Short

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - To Make A Long Story Short - An Introduction2 - Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin3 - The Story of Sir Bertrand by Anna Laetitia Barbauld4 - All Souls Eve by Dora Sigerson Shorter5 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts6 - Conversation on Conversation by Harriet Beecher Stowe7 - The Preacher at Hill Station by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman8 - The Palace of Death by Emily Bronte9 - The Lie by Holloway Horn10 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin11 - Suggestion by Mrs Ernest Leverson12 - A Pen and Ink Effect by Frances E Huntley13 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart14 - My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham15 - The Three Kisses by Violet Quirk16 - A Redeeming Sacrifice by Lucy Maud Montgomery17 - Many Waters Cannot Quench Love by Louisa Baldwin18 - Aunt Hetty on Matrimony by Fanny Fern, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton19 - Aunt Lindy. A Story Founded on Real Life by Victoria Earle Matthews20 - Cousin Mary by Mary Russell Mitford21 - Cuchulain of Muirthemne. The Only Son of Aoife by Lady Augusta Gregory22 - The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages by Lucretia Peabody Hale23 - My Honoured Master by Catherine Anne Dawson Scott24 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins25 - The Strange Looking Man by Fanny Kemble Johnson26 - In No Strange Land by Katharine Butler27 - The Mystery of the Gables by Elsie Norris28 - Guests Unexpected. A Thanksgiving Story by Maude K Griffin29 - Breaking the Color Line by Annie McCary30 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby31 - The Knitted Collar by Mary Anne Hoare32 - A Knot of Ribbon by Laurence Alma-Tadema33 - A Dream of Wild Bees by Olive Schreiner34 - A Lost Masterpiece by Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton35 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd36 - The Shape of Fear by Elia W Peattie37 - Fear by Catherine Wells38 - The Little Skeleton by Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird39 - Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Bronte40 - The Tyburn Ghost by Wilhelmina FitzClarence, The Countess of Munster41 - When the Devil Was Well by Gertrude Atherton.wav

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Annie McCary, Catherine Anne Dawson Scott, Catherine Wells, Charlotte Bronte, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Elia W Peattie, Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham, Elsie Norris, Emily Bronte, Fanny Fern, Fanny Kemble Johnson, Frances E Huntley, Georgia F Stewart, Gertrude Atherton, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Holloway Horn, Katharine Butler, Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, L.M. Montgomery, Lady Augusta Gregory, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Louisa Baldwin, Lucretia Peabody Hale, Mary Anne Atherstone writing as M A Bird, Mary Anne Hoare, Mary Austin, Mary Butts, Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright writing as George Egerton, Mary Russell Mitford, Maude K Griffin, Mrs Ernest Leverson, Olive Schreiner, Ruth D Todd, The Countess of Munster, Victoria Earle Matthews, Violet Quirk, Wilhelmina FitzClarence, Winifred Holtby, the writing pseudonym for Sarah Payton Parton (Author), Ghizela Rowe, Kelly Burke, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - Ghost Stories

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many. In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the rules and do as you were told. Many did.But whilst male society sought to place obstacles in the path to equality, it could not deny their literary talents, which many times they circumvented by using male pseudonyms. However, the soaring sales of magazines and periodicals during the Victorian Age meant they had voracious appetites for literature, whatever the sex of its gender.Dozens of authors appeared to fill the need. Narratives had new ideas. Characters were emboldened by societal changes and the female voice taking responsibility.The women included here are talents that dazzle. Put them up against anyone and they rise to the top. Whether they remain with an avid readership today or faded to obscurity with the passing of the times their quality remains undimmed. 1 - Women of Wonder - Ghost Stories - An Introduction2 - Man Size In Marble by Edith Nesbit3 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton4 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards5 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman6 - A Spirit Elopement by Clotilde Graves7 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps8 - Reality or Delusion by Mrs Ellen Wood9 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards10 - The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth by Rhoda Broughton11 - The Ghost at the Rath by Rosa Mulholland12 - Christmas Eve at a Cornish Manor House by Clara Venn13 - The Ghost by Catherine Wells14 - The Ghost in the Clock Room by Hesba Stretton15 - The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne16 - The Open Door - Part 1 by Margaret Oliphant17 - The Open Door - Part 2 by Margaret Oliphant18 - To Let by B M Croker19 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley.wav20 - The Runaway by Marion Hepworth-Dixon21 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards22 - The 4 15 Express by Amelia Edwards23 - The Token by May Sinclair24 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton25 - The Readjustment by Mary Austin26 - The Cold Embrace by Mary Elizabeth Braddon27 - The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell28 - Dionea - Part 1 by Vernon Lee29 - Dionea - Part 2 by Vernon Lee30 - John Charrington's Wedding by Edith Nesbit

Amelia B. Edwards, B M Croker, Catherine Wells, Clara Venn, Clotilde Graves, Edith Nesbit, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Gertrude Atherton, Hesba Stretton, Madeline Yale Wynne, Margaret Oliphant, Marion Hepworth-Dixon, Mary Austin, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, May Sinclair, Mrs Ellen Wood, Rhoda Broughton, Rosa Mulholland, Vernon Lee (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Bowerman, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Wonder Of Women - The Weird Stories - Volume 1

Barbara Baynton, D.K. Broster, Edith Wharton, Elinor Mordaunt, Gertrude Atherton, Louisa Baldwin, Margaret Oliphant, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Butts, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, May Sinclair, Sarah Orne Jewett, Virginia Woolf (Author), Elliot Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow, Lisa Bowerman (Narrator)

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Lessons from Literature - Stories Dealing with Death and Loss

Being curious, learning from all of our experiences, is one of our most pleasing traits as human beings. In this series we examine particular facets of ourselves and, with the aid of many classic authors, delve into characters and stories that not only entertain us, but inform us on how short stories can help us both deal and understand issues that touch and weave into our lives with the words and narratives of many wise talents.In this volume our literary friends offer their talents and stories to help us deal, and perhaps reconcile, our feelings of loss with the reality that the world moves on and we must too, however painful that process may seem and even become. 01 - Lessons From Literature - Stories Dealing with Death and Loss - An Introduction2 - Where Love Is, God Is by Leo Tolstoy3 - A Dead Woman’s Secret by Guy de Maupassant4 - Mary Postgate by Rudyard Kipling5 - The Altar of the Dead by Henry James6 - The Mourner by Mary Shelley7 - Misery by Anton Chekhov8 - War by Luigi Pirandello9 - The Casualty List by Winifred Holtby10 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence11 - A Complete Recovery by Barry Pain12 - An Unexpected Reunion by Johann Hebel13 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier14 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts15 - The Dark Cottage by Mary Cholmondeley16 - The Furnished Room by O Henry17 - The Canary by Katherine Mansfield18 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton19 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps20 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev21 - The Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant22 - The General's Will by Vera Jelihovsky23 - The Man Who Hated God by Winifred Holtby

Anton Chekhov, Barry Pain, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Gertrude Atherton, Guy De Maupassant, Henry James, Johann Hebel, Katherine Mansfield, Leo Tolstoy, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev, Luigi Pirandello, Mary Butts, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Stacy Aumonier, Vera Jelihovsky, Winifred Holtby (Author), Eric Meyers, Richard Mitchley, Robert Maskell (Narrator)

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The Foundations of Fiction - Gothic Horror

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving. Success undoubtedly builds success and in literary terms we can more politely say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the surest way to reach a hungry readership is to build on the fortune and flair of your literary colleagues. The mere placing of these two words together creates a picture and a feeling that dark times are coming. Something evil, perhaps unfathomable, will be launched upon us by an author’s imagination that is sure to bring consequences that may only unsettle but equally may go much, much further than anyone, at first, imagined. 01 - Foundations of Fiction - Gothic Horror - An Introduction2 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe3 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens4 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving5 - Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson6 - The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin7 - The Dream by Mary Shelley8 - Green Tea by Sheridan Le Fanu9 - The Lifted Veil by George Eliot10 - Count Magnus by M R James11 - The Sand-Man by E T A Hoffman12 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton13 - Thurnley Abbey by Perceval Landon14 - The Yellow Sign by Robert W Chambers15 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs16 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman17 - The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe18 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce19 - Wake Not the Dead by Ernst Raupach

Alexander Pushkin, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, E T A Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernst Raupach, George Eliot, Gertrude Atherton, M.R. James, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Perceval Landon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert W Chambers, Sheridan Le Fanu, W W Jacobs, Washington Irving (Author), Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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3 Stories About - Life After Death

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.From their pens to your your ears.

Edith Wharton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gertrude Atherton (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley, Richard Mitchley (Narrator)

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Haunting American Gothic Stories Not by Edgar Allan Poe

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit. Each of their works is laden with talent, has purpose, and is rich and textured in this gloried niche of literature.1 - Haunting American Gothic Stories Not by Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction2 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne3 - Rappaccini's Daughter - Part 2 by Nathaniel Hawthorne4 - Herbert West - Reanimator - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft5 - Herbert West - Reanimator - Part 2 by H P Lovecraft6 - The Eyes by Edith Wharton7 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving8 - The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne9 - The Yellow Sign by Robert W Chambers10 - The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman11 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman12 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton13 - In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett14 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving15 - The Devil In Manuscript By Nathaniel Hawthorne16 - Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne17 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James18 - A Diagnosis of Death by Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert W Chambers, Sarah Orne Jewett, Washington Irving (Author), Laurel Lefkow, Michael Carleton, Vincent Marzello (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Dead and the Countess

What is the worst thing that can happen in a cemetery? 'The Dead and the Countess' gives one truly horrific description which will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very end. Now do you really want to know what happened in the Breton cemetery? Its inhabitants’ long sleep has been interrupted and they have become restless. What will follow is still unknown. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Gertrude Atherton was an American author who lived in the period 1857-1948. She wrote novels, short stories, essays and articles, and her work often dealt with feminism and politics. Her personal life inspired her to write about women and their rights as she felt genuine disappointment in her own marriage, because her husband was not willing to let her be a writer. After his death, Atherton opened up to the world and started developing her career as a novelist. She is best known for the novel 'Black Oxen' which was published in 1923. The work was so well accepted by the public, that it was made into a silent film the same year. In 1946 she published the autobiography 'My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography'.

Gertrude Atherton (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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B. J. Harrison Reads The Bell and the Fog

Ralph Orth is an American novelist who decides to move to the English countryside. There he buys a marvellous estate called Chillingsworth. Inside Chillingsworth’s gallery, Orth finds an old portrait of a young girl who takes Orth’s breath away. He is fascinated and is determined to find out who this girl was. His obsession with little lady Blanche gets so strong that one day he sees her walking around in the neighborhood. Is Ralph Orth going crazy? How can he be seeing a girl who died many years ago? Will his questions be answered and will his dream of having lady Blanche as his own daughter come true? Find out in 'The Bell and the Fog'. B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere. Gertrude Atherton was an American author who lived in the period 1857-1948. She wrote novels, short stories, essays and articles, and her work often dealt with feminism and politics. Her personal life inspired her to write about women and their rights as she felt genuine disappointment in her own marriage, because her husband was not willing to let her be a writer. After his death, Atherton opened up to the world and started developing her career as a novelist. She is best known for the novel 'Black Oxen' which was published in 1923. The work was so well accepted by the public, that it was made into a silent film the same year. In 1946 she published the autobiography 'My San Francisco: A Wayward Biography'.

Gertrude Atherton (Author), B. J. Harrison (Narrator)

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The Striding Place

In Gertrude Atherton's The Striding Place, the concept of identity and a lonely death are addressed. Weigall remembers talking with Wyatt about the soul and afterlife. Wyatt states, "If I had my way, I should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor old comrade the tragic impersonality of death." The characters wonder about death and the destination of the human soul when it occurs. Weigall does not believe that the marshy bog, The Strid, has taken his friend, but when he sees a hand raised above the surface of the water, he knows it must be him and he desperately and quickly saves him. When he tries to resuscitate Wyatt, he sees that there is no face on the body. This is an extreme metaphor for the loneliness and/or mystery of death.

Gertrude Atherton (Author), Katy Maw (Narrator)

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99 Classic Horror Short Stories, Vol. 1: Works by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyl

CONTENTS: 01. A Suspicious Gift [Algernon Blackwood] 02. Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp [Algernon Blackwood] 03. The Wood of the Dead [Algernon Blackwood] 04. A Baby Tramp [Ambrose Bierce] 05. The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce] 06. Dagon [H.P Lovecraft] 07. The Horror of the Heights [Arthur Conan Doyle] 08. The_Descendant [H.P Lovecraft] 09. The Cats of Ulthar [H.P Lovecraft] 10. The Evil Clergyman [H.P Lovecraft] 11. He [H.P Lovecraft] 12.The Book [H.P Lovecraft] 13. In the Vault [H.P Lovecraft] 14. Nyarlathotep [H.P Lovecraft] 15. Death and the Woman [Gertrude Atherton] 16. The Striding Place [Gertrude Atherton] 17. Hop-Frog [Edgar Allan Poe] 18. The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe] 19. The Tell-Tale Heart [Edgar Allan Poe] 20. Shadow [Edgar Allan Poe] 21. The Beast in the Cave [H.P Lovecraft] 22. The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Lovecraft] 23. The Vampire Maid [Hume Nisbet] 24. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains [Poe] 25. The Demon Spell [Hume Nisbet] 26. Out of the Earth [Arthur Machen] 27. The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens] 28. The Colloquy of Monos and Una [Poe] 29. Demons of the Sea [William Hope Hodgson] 30. Glámir [Sabine Baring-Gould] 31. Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story [Sabine Baring-Gould] 32. Tales of Secret Egypt [Sax Rohmer] 33. Some Words with a Mummy [Poe] 34. In the Dark [Edith Nesbit] 35. The Sea Raiders [H. G. Wells] 36. The Baron of Beauguard [Gilbert Parke] 37. The Vampire [Jan Neruda] 38 .A Journey of Little Profit [John Buchan] 39. The Keeper of Cademuir [John Buchan] 40. Dickon the Devil [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] 41. The Child That Went With The Fairies [Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu] 42. Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling [Le Fanu] 43. Two Doctors Montague [Rhodes James] 44. A School Story Montague [Rhodes James] 45. The Diary of Mr. Poynter Montague[ Rhodes James] 46. In the Forest of Villefére by [Robert E. Howard] 47. The Dream Snake [Robert E. Howard] 48. The Thing On the Roof [Robert E. Howard] 49. The Imp of the Perverse [Poe] 50. The Devil in the Belfry [Poe] 51. The Crawling Chaos [Lovecraft] 52. Aunt Joanna [Sabine Baring-Gould] 53. The Outsider [Lovecraft] 54. The Hound [Lovecraft] 55. The Disinterment [Lovecraft] 56. The Horror At Martin's Beach [Lovecraft] 57. The Tree On The Hill [Lovecraft] 58. The Outgoing of The Tide [John Buchan] 59. The Curse of Yig [Lovecraft] 60. The Haunter Of The Dark [Lovecraft] 61. Berenice [Poe] 62. The Angel Of The Odd [Poe] 63. Black Ram [Baring-Gould] 64. The Cask Of Amontillado [Poe] 65. Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker] 66. The Mother Of Pansies [Baring-Gould] 67. On The Leads [Baring-Gould] 68. McAlister [Baring-Gould] 69. Mustapha [Baring-Gould] 70. The Ghost and the Bone-setter [Le Fanu] 71. The Drunkard's Dream [Le Fanu] 72. The Novel of the White Powder [Arthur Machen] 73. The Merewigs [Baring-Gould] 74. Xélucha [Matthew Phipps Shiel] 75. Solange [ Alexandre Dumas] 76. The Fall of The House of Usher [Poe] 77. The Assignation [Poe] 78. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade [Poe] 79. Laura Silver Bell [Le Fanu] 80. Descent Into The Maelstrom [Poe] 81. The Power of Darkness [ Edith Nesbit] 82. An Authentic Narrative of A Haunted House [Le Fanu] 83. The Night Wire [H. F. Arnold] 84. The Dualists [Bram Stoker] 85. Stories of Lough Guir [Le Fanu] 86. The Vision of Tom Chuff [Le Fanu] 87. The Three Strangers [Thomas Hardy] 88. Crooken Sands [Bram Stoker] 89.The Cairn of the Headland [Robert E. Howard] 90. The Shining Pyramid [Arthur Machen] 91. Schalken The Painter [Le Fanu] 92. Hellhound Of The Cosmos [Clifford Donald Simak] 93. Ibid [Lovecraft] 94. The Grove Of Ashtaroth [John Buchan] 95. The Moon Bog [Lovecraft] 96. An Account of Some Strange Disturbances [Le Fanu] 97. Ultor De Lacy A Legend of Cappercullen [Le Fanu] 98. The Red Hand [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 98 99. The Inmost Light [Arthur Machen] Starts at Chapter 100

Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Gertrude Atherton, H.P Lovecraft, Hume Nisbet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Anthony Maher (Narrator)

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Daughter of the Vine

We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about Nina? Why won't she open herself up to love? She is obviously attracted to Dudley. What is the dark secret she is hiding? Will it make a difference to Dudley's feelings? Who will be there for her in her time of need? Dudley or her odious cousin, Richard Clough? And what will San Francisco society make of it all?

Gertrude Atherton (Author), Lynne Thompson (Narrator)

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