Episodes

Hello, dear listeners, Gizelle Erickson here, eager to be your companion as we once again open a window to the fascinating world of the Gilded Age, transforming your everyday moments into an engaging escape. Our next offering, William Schwenk Gilbert's poignant classic, 'Angela: An Inverted Love Story,' will transport you to the unique setting of 1890s Venice. This isn't just a story; it's an immersive journey following a bedridden man whose only view of the world, and indeed of the young woman ...

In Chapter 2 of Anne of the Island, “Garlands of Autumn” we find Anne in the last week of preparations to leave Avonlea for Redmond College. The chapter opens with a farewell party thrown by the Avonlea Village Improvement Society (A.V.I.S.) for Anne and Gilbert Blythe. Amidst the gathering of their "old crowd" of friends, including Diana Barry, Ruby Gillis, and Charlie Sloane, Anne navigates the bittersweet nature of her impending departure and her evolving feelings for Gilbert. She grapples wi...

Get ready to journey with us as we begin L. M. Montgomery's beloved novel, Anne of the Island, a classic from the early 20th century. This installment chronicles Anne Shirley's pivotal transition from her cherished childhood in Avonlea to the exciting, yet daunting, world of adulthood and college life at Redmond. Our first chapter, aptly titled "The Shadow of Change," immediately immerses us in this significant moment, setting the stage as Anne and her dear friend Diana Barry reflect on the bitt...

1001 Stories From The Gilded Age is coming out of its summer slumber now! We have a new voice and talent you'lll want to meet-some of you have already heard her- that's Gizelle Erickson- and she's picking up where we left off with the "Anne of Green Gables" series where we left off ( we did the first two, Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, in archives, links will be in show notes, hopefully, soon), starting with Anne of the Island, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, whose 'Anne' works sold over 50 ...

Marie is a 1912 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot concerns Quatermain as a young man and involves his first marriage, to the Boer farm girl, Marie Marais. Their romance is opposed by Marie's anti-English father, and her villainous cousin Hernan Pereira, who desires Marie. They are Voortrekkers who take part in the Great Trek whom Quatermain has to rescue. Marie is the fifth novel, and the eighth story overall, in the Allan Quatermain series. The novel describes Qu...

Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely. Few people now recollect Edna Ferber, once a best-selling novelist. Nevertheless she numbered among her champions Somerset Maugham, who in 1948 told playwright Garson Kanin: "I admire Edna Ferber. She's a true professional." To Kanin's inquiry, "What sort of writer would yo...

"On the Divide" is a short story by Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather. It was first published in Overland Monthly in January 1896.  Plot summary On the Nebraska prairie, Canute takes to drinking to forget his boredom after spending the first...

DECORATION DAY by SARAH ORNE JEWETT More about Sarah's story 'Decoration Day' Three years after the Civil War ended, in 1868, General John A. Logan—the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans—established that May...

A group of women form a society to determine what it is that men bring to this life-so they start asking questions but find themselves getting limited answers.  As a late "Gilded Age"piece of work it challenges the status quo in 1921 at the...

The sad fact of rural life in "the gilded era" was that most folks, especially after the children were grown up and gone, werepoor and lonely, and often caring for the elders. Mary E.Wilkins (thats how she signed her books) was a good ...

Two great true stories from the radio annals of True Crime Classics

A man makes a vow to take care of his three sisters and life is changed

When a rag-tag little girl named Joan, the down-and-out minister's daughter, knocks on Sarah's door to sell her some very familiar-looking handiwork just before Christmas, Sarah finds more compassion and generosity than she knew she had. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated).

A tight knit community finds they have something to learn about forgiveness and kindness when a 20 year old widow brings her baby to town to visit with the one friend she has there.

This story gives you a seat on a Halifax to Boston train circa 1915 where you will catch a very interesting conversation between a salesman of women's wear, an electrician, and a young lady, who,tired of traveling for the past 3 days, and desirous of...

A young man from a prairie town comes to the Big City and finds a job in a discount shoe store where works a young woman who has been working for starving wages.  They become working friends to the point where , when he screws up enough courage,...

A man running for governor shocks his peers by giving an unsual speech at a boy's reformitory by baring his soul and admitting that he, too, as a boy and a young man, was a bad actor. He explained what he had done, and told the boys that they could...

A young bride-to-be gets a visit from her aunt along with tsome good advice about marriage.

A young girl pursues her dream of writing a successful novel depite the responsibilities she has of caring for her mother and siblings, causing lots of troubles and heartache.

The dramatic story of a young girl living in a small community while caring for her invalid mother, who is called upon to save lives during a bad rainstorm. A huge dance which she can't attent because she could find noone to watch her mother is taking...

This gripping short story by Mary E.Wilkins Freeman involves 4 Glynn family siblings (Henry, Rebecca, Caroline & Emma) who become terrified after the loss of one of their group (Edward) to death and strange shadows begin to appear on the wall of...

The incredible end of Mary Shelley's 'Romeo and Juliet' story called Brother and Sister.   Any ideas for a better title to this terrific classic piece?  It deserves one! Leave us a review-Thanks!

A 16th century romance which takes place in Verona Italyin a setting involving feuding families much like those in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Although this was written before 'The Gilded Age' it was still a popular read at that time, and one of...

A single aunt travels to visit and hopefully take in her orphaned niece but finds her gone and the woman who has supposedly been taking care of her is acting very strangely in a house which appears very haunted.  Catch all of our podcasts at...