Phil Benson
65 books
Poetry
485
Ann Hawkshaw - Dionysius the Areopagite, with other poems
An early figure in the birth of poetry in industrial Manchester, Ann Hawkshaw published three collections and another was circulated privately. Her first collection. published in Manchester and London in 1842, begins...
2 hours 55 minutes
Poetry
462
Edwin Waugh - Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect
A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect...
1 hour 45 minutes
War & Military
466
Robert Burrows - Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845
An eye-witness account of the so-called Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 1845 and January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands. Ostensibly triggered by...
3 hours 26 minutes
General Fiction
510
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Short Stories (Household Words 1850-53)
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1853 In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow,...
9 hours 57 minutes
Philosophy
529
C. W. Leadbeater - Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena
As sceptics dismissed other-worldly phenomena as the stuff of legend, trickery or delusion, nineteenth-century 'occult science' set out to explain them scientifically. Here, C. W. Leadbeater maps out the scenery and...
3 hours 29 minutes
