A Father of Women and Other Poems: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Father of Women and Other Poems, credited to Alice Meynell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Father of Women and Other Poems by Alice Meynell. Read in English by Eva Davis; Nemo; Sonia; Jason in Panama; Larry Wilson Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's converted to Roman Catholicism and many of the poems in this volume, published just five years before her death, reflect religious themes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Father of Women and Other Poems
• Author credits: Alice Meynell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 25:49

Catalogue topics

• Shakespeare
• Easter
• venice
• lord
• s prayer
• thrush

Track guide

1. 01 - A Father of Women — 2:05
2. 02 - Length of Days: To the Early Dead in Battle — 1:50
3. 03 - Nurse Edith Cavell — 1:04
4. 04 - Summer in England, 1914 — 1:53
5. 05 - To Tintoretto in Venice — 2:31
6. 06 - A Thrush Before Dawn — 1:50
7. 07 - The Two Shakespeare Tercentenaries — 1:38
8. 08 - To O, of her Dark Eyes — 1:36
9. 09 - The Treasure — 1:34
10. 10 - A Wind of Clear Weather in England — 1:20
11. 11 - In Sleep — 1:22
12. 12 - The Divine Privilege — 1:33
13. 13 - Free Will — 1:26
14. 14 - The Two Questions — 1:48
15. 15 - The Lords Prayer — 1:17
16. 16 - Easter Night — 1:01

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