Novels & Poems

You will find information about novels and poems on this page.

Reclaim Her Name – To mark the 25th year of the Women’s Prize For Fiction, 25 books by women writers who used a male or gender neutral pen-name when their work was first published, are being re-released under their own names. Some of the books, such as Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the name of George Eliot, are available free online.

Middlemarch: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm

Reclaim Her Name – Women’s Prize For Fiction https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – Chapter 1

A very popular novel of the 19th century. This is a summary of the first chapter. Read it and answer some questions

If you’ve enjoyed the summary, you can read or listen to the whole novel:

Or listen to it:

Daffodils – a poem by William Wordsworth

Listen to Daffodils, read by Philip