Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth Audiobooks

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

1819–1899

One of the most popular American novelists of the 19th century, she wrote fast-moving serials and domestic dramas that reached huge audiences in the United States and Europe. Her stories mixed suspense, family conflict, and daring heroines in a way that kept readers coming back week after week.

About the author

Born in Washington, D.C., in 1819, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth was christened Emma Nevitte at birth and later became known in print as E. D. E. N. Southworth. Before she was widely known as a novelist, she taught school, and after her husband left the family she turned to writing to support herself and her children.

Her fiction first found a large audience through newspaper serialization, especially in the New York Ledger. She went on to publish more than 60 novels and became one of the best-known and best-paid American women writers of her era. Readers were drawn to her dramatic plots, sharp reversals, strong emotions, and memorable heroines, with works such as The Hidden Hand remaining especially well known.

Southworth spent much of her life in and around Washington and Georgetown, and she continued writing for decades. Although literary tastes changed after her lifetime, her work still stands out as a vivid example of 19th-century popular fiction and of the many women writers who built large careers through magazines, newspapers, and serial publication.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

33 Audiobooks

Ishmael; Or, In the Depths

Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths

Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand'

For Woman's Love

The curse of Clifton : or, the widowed bride

Love's labor won

Hidden Hand

Gloria : A novel

For whose sake? A sequel to "Why did he wed her?"

The changed brides

How he won her

The discarded daughter; or, The children of the isle

Dorothy Harcourt's secret : Sequel to "A deed without a name"

The bride's fate The sequel to "The changed brides"

Allworth Abbey

India : the pearl of Pearl River

Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend

Lilith : A novel

Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave"

Love's bitterest cup

Cruel as the grave

The Lost Lady of Lone

Capitola the Madcap

The Haunted Homestead: A Novel

Her mother's secret

The Missing Bride

The Lady of the Isle : or, the Island Princess

Fair play : a novel

The deserted wife

Em's husband : A sequel to "Em"

When shadows die

Brandon Coyle's wife : a sequel to "A skeleton in the closet"

The fatal marriage : or, Orville Deville

About the author