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It has been 12 years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently graduated from medical school. With the help of her influential fiance - Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal MP - she works to shut down the area's opium dens that destroy both body and soul.

When Mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn by Grace Brown, she fully intends to do so. But when Grace is found drowned the next day, Mattie finds that it is not as easy to get rid of those letters as she had thought. And, as she reads, a riveting story emerges - not only revealing Grace's secrets but also Mattie's hopes and ambitions for the future and her relationships with her friends and family.

Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.

Hidden in the Beast's library is a very mysterious book. Belle is about to discover it and visit a glittering new world. But is everything in that world what it seems? And will Belle be able to find her way home? Or will the story take hold of her - and never let her go?

It’s the summer of 1900 in London’s gritty East End. The ruthless, complicated gangster Sid Malone rules the streets of Whitechapel with an iron fist, but cannot rule his own heart. A forbidden love for India Selwyn Jones, an idealistic young doctor, torments Sid. He’s certain the violence of his underworld life will only lead to tragedy for a soul whose kindness and decency are like nothing he’s ever known.

Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing-school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other dreams and desires that make her long for a very different kind of future. She wants a more meaningful and exciting life: she wants to be an investigative journalist like her heroine, Nellie Bly.

India’s family, her fiancé and the general medical establishment object to her position as a female doctor, but she insists on defying convention, finding a post in London's East End. There she meets a gang boss called Sid Malone. Criminal he may be, but he also has a hidden charm.... But Sid has a past and enemies, including India's ruthless fiancé, whose intention is to marry into the family money.

Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fearless, brave, and strong-willed. She fences better than any boy, and takes her stallion over jumps that grown men fear to attempt. It doesn't matter, though; these qualities are not valued in a girl. Others have determined what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not fit their definition.

Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages - until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.

What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly? That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her—the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams.

It’s the summer of 1891, New York City, in the early days of Fiona Finnegan’s marriage to Nicholas Soames. When Fiona senses a quiet love blossoming between her widowed uncle, Michael Finnegan, and his neighbor, Mary Munro, she’s thrilled and hopes that Michael will soon propose to Mary. But one night, at a family supper, a surprise announcement tears these hopes asunder.

Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon - like all the girls in her class - she’ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer - a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo’s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes: Her father is found dead. Charles Montfort shot himself while cleaning his pistol.

London 1888: Als Packerin einer Teefabrik schlägt sich die junge Fiona täglich durch die Londoner Docks...

Der Erste Weltkrieg wirft seine Schatten voraus. In den Straßen Londons weht ein rauer Wind, Frauen kämpfen für ihr Wahlrecht...

London, 1900: Die junge India Selwyn-Jones bewegt sich in den feinsten Kreisen. Bis sie als Ärztin im berüchtigten Whitechapel zu arbeiten beginnt - und dort in leidenschaftlicher Liebe zu dem gefürchteten Gangsterboss Sid Malone entbrennt. Von der gefährlichen Unterwelt Londons bis nach Afrika und in die Neue Welt führt ihr Weg.

Deel 1 van de Rozen-trilogie. Londen, 1888. Fiona Finnegan woont in een van de armoedige steegjes van East End, waar overdag kinderen spelen en 's nachts dieven, prostituees en dromers rondhangen. Ze werkt net als haar vader in de theefabriek van William Burton en droomt ervan om ooit samen met haar grote liefde Joe Bristow een eigen theewinkeltje te kunnen openen. Fiona's leven staat op z'n kop als haar vader door een onverklaarbaar ongeluk in de fabriek sterft.

Eyre on Air is a period drama podcast...mostly. Every two weeks, Jenn, Joe, and Kelsey watch and review a movie or television show set in the past, make incredibly inane and inappropriate jokes, and try to give you as much historical background information as their collective degrees and internet sleuthing will allow. If you've got a boner for obscure facts about royals and get annoyed that there aren't enough POC in your period dramas, then we're the podcast for you!

Once upon a time, a girl named Sophie rode into the forest. Her lips were as red as blood, her skin as pale as snow, and her hair as dark as night. When she stopped to rest, her huntsman companion took his knife, plunged it into Sophie’s chest...and removed her heart. Yet Sophie doesn’t die. She’s rescued by seven mysterious engineers who manage to fashion her a temporary heart.

New York, 1890. Für Josephine Montfort, die aus einer wohlhabenden Handelsfamilie stammt, scheint das Leben vorgezeichnet: nach der Schule eine arrangierte Ehe, Kinder und ein häusliches Leben. Aber Josephine hat andere Pläne. Sie möchte als Journalistin auf das Leben der weniger Privilegierten aufmerksam machen. Doch eine Familientragödie reißt sie aus ihren Träumen - ihr Vater stirbt zu Hause durch seine eigene Waffe. Josephine glaubt nicht an einen Selbstmord und begibt sich gemeinsam mit dem Journalisten Eddie Gallagher auf Spurensuche, die sie in die gefährlichsten New Yorker Viertel führt.

Wie versteinert fühlt sich Andi, als ihr Bruder bei einem Unfall stirbt und sie sich die Schuld an dessen Tod gibt. Als ihr Vater sie zur Aufheiterung nach Paris entführt, findet sie in einem alten Gitarrenkoffer das geheimnisvolle Tagebuch einer jungen Frau, die einst den Sohn Marie Antoinettes betreute. Bald erkennt sie, dass ihre Schicksale untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind, denn auch die Französin konnte den Tod des geliebten kleinen Jungen nicht verhindern.