A Group of Noble Dames: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Group of Noble Dames, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Group of Noble Dames, by Thomas Hardy. Read by Libby Gohn. The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue—the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, and this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape. (Summary adapted from the preface)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Group of Noble Dames
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 6:52:25

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• fiction
• historical-fiction
• short-stories
• Wessex
• Framed narrative
• 17th century
• 18th century

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:26
2. 01 - Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 1) — 44:49
3. 02 - Dame the First: The First Countess of Wessex (part 2) — 51:49
4. 03 - Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 1) — 32:01
5. 04 - Dame the Second: Barbara of the House of Grebe (part 2) — 43:27
6. 05 - Dame the Third: The Marchioness of Stonehenge — 33:24
7. 06 - Dame the Fourth: Lady Mottisfont — 35:35
8. 07 - Dame the Fifth: The Lady Icenway — 25:36
9. 08 - Dame the Sixth: Squire Petrick's Lady — 22:52
10. 09 - Dame the Seventh: Anna, Lady Baxby — 15:05
11. 10 - Dame the Eighth: The Lady Penelope — 22:38
12. 11 - Dame the Ninth: The Duchess of Hamptonshire — 30:34
13. 12 - Dame the Tenth: The Honourable Laura — 52:13

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