Victorian Memoirs

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 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 136 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 Last Victorian
    • By: Kathryn Hughes
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • The daughter of a respectable businessman, the middle-aged Eliot was cast into social exile when she began a scandalous liaison with married writer and scientist George Henry Lewes....

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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 53 ratings
    • An all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII....

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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 99 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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    • 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 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • The History of England Series, Book 5
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: The History of England, Book 5
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Dominion, the fifth volume in Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901....

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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 34 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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    • 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....

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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 3,373 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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    • 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 14 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....

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    • 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 681 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....

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    • 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 1,325 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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    • 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 70 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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    • A Biography of Princess Louise
    • By: Lucinda Hawksley
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts?....

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    • The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
    • By: A. N. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Drawn from the Royal archives, including Prince Albert’s voluminous correspondence, this brilliant and ambitious book offers fascinating never-before-known details about the man and his time. A superb match of biographer and subject, Prince Albert....

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    • A Penguin Audiobook Original
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • This audio original from the acclaimed author of American Sherlock, and the host of multiple true-crime podcasts, including Wicked Words, tells the fascinating story of the supernatural, and the club that united some of the world's most illustrious thinkers....

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    • The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
    • By: David J. Skal
    • Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon....

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    • By: Claire Tomalin
    • Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • This engrossing biography identifies the inner demons and the outer mores that drove Hardy and presents a rich and complex portrait of one of the greatest figures in English literature....

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