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  The Poetry of Amelia Opie -...

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  Amelia Alderson, an only child, was born on the 12th of November 1769 in Norwich, England. 
  After the death of her mother the teenage Amelia became her father's housekeeper and hostess. 
  The young Amelia was energetic, attractive, and an admirer of fashion.  She spent much of her youth writing poetry and plays and putting on local amateur theatricals.  At 18 she had published anonymously ‘The Dangers of Coquetry’. 
  Amelia married in the spring of 1798 to the artist John Opie at the Church of St Marylebone, in Westminster, and together they lived in Berners Street in London's West End. 
  Her next novel in 1801 ‘Father and Daughter’, was very popular even though it dealt with such themes as illegitimacy, a socially difficult subject for its times.  From this point on published works were far more regular.  The following year her volume ‘Poems’ was enthusiastically received.  Novels continued to flow and she never once abandoned her social activism and her call for better treatment of women and the dispossessed in her works.  She was also keenly involved in a love of society and its attendant frills. 
  Encouraged by her husband to write more she published ‘Adeline Mowbray’ in 1804, an exploration of women's education, marriage, and the abolition of slavery.  
  Her husband died in 1807, and she paused from writing for a few years before resuming.  Of particular interest was her short poem ‘The Black Man's Lament’ in 1826.  Her life now was in the main spent travelling and working for charities and against slavery.  She even helped create a Ladies Anti-Slavery Society in Norwich which organised a parliamentary petition of 187,000 names of which hers was the first name. 
  After a visit to Cromer, a seaside resort on the North Norfolk coast, she caught a chill and retired to her bedroom.  
  Amelia Opie died on the 2nd of December 1853 in Norwich.  She was 84.

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  This is the second LibriVox collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Women's Worlds," as the excerpts are all scenes between female characters. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw  As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2 read by: Eden Rea-Hedrick, Caprisha Page  Coriolanus, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Duan, Martin Geeson, Caprisha Page  Henry V, Act 3 Scene 4 read by: Tiffany Halla Colonna, Elizabeth Klett  Love's Labor's Lost, Act 5 Scene 2 read by: Duan, Amanda Friday, Elizabeth Klett, Caprisha Page  The Merchant of Venice, Act 1 Scene 2 read by: Duan, Elizabeth Klett  The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: CaprishaPage, Arielle Lipshaw  Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Verity Kendall, Amanda Friday, Caprisha Page  Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 4 read by: Grace Garrett, Caprisha Page, April Gonzales, Elizabeth Klett  Othello, Act 4 Scene 3 read by: Elizabeth Klett, Arielle Lipshaw  Richard III, Act 4 Scene 4 read by: CaprishaPage, Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett  Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Duan, Arielle Lipshaw, Eden Rea-Hedrick  Romeo and Juliet, Act 3 Scene 2 read by: Verity Kendall, Amanda Friday  Twelfth Night, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Eden Rea-Hedrick, Amanda Friday  The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1 Scene 2 read by: April Gonzales, Tiffany Halla Colonna

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  Embark on an odyssey through human life and cherish our collective journey with a life-changing collection of haikus. 
  Cherishing and celebrating the passage of human life, this illuminating collection of haikus explores our journey from conception to death. Imbued with profound themes of love, parenthood, relationships, and the rich web of emotions that we experience along the way, this book roams through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and finally old age with a thoughtful narrative that offers reflections on each stage of our growth. 
  Following the classic Japanese haiku structure that has made it such a popular and beloved form of poetry, Just a Passing Moment in Time offers us a window into human life – an event that is a brief moment in eternity, but a powerful and everlasting odyssey for everyone it touches. Author and poet Brett C. Persson invites you on a journey to discover the fullness of human experience, weaving imaginative wordplay that explores everything from the mundane to the extraordinary. 
  Through love and grief, joy and sadness, and the endless discovery and curiosity that drives us into the unknown, this collection will give you a newfound perspective and appreciation for the little things in life, along with those seemingly ordinary moments that hide a vast source of meaning and wonder just below the surface.

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  John Clare  was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption.  His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self". (Summary from Wikipedia )

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  poetry of the night by poet author Rachel Lawson

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