A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Ernest Protheroe: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 15 original MP3 tracks, 2:47:39 running time and a link to listen.
A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell, credited to Ernest Protheroe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell by Ernest Protheroe. Read by Lee Smalley Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Attempts to mount an appeal failed, and she was summarily executed within hours of the sentence by a German firing squad. Publication of the news prompted spontaneous grief and worldwide condemnation. Many memorials were created around the world, including a statue adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London. --Adapted from Wikipedia NOTE: After recording Chapter 7, the reader became aware that the subject's family pronounced the surname as it rhymes with "gravel", and he therefore pronounces it CAvel in subsequent chapters. The first edition of this book was published in 1916. The final portion of Chapter 15 is from a later edition. ( Wikipedia page on Edith Cavell)
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell
- Author credits: Ernest Protheroe
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 15
- Listed recording duration: 2:47:39
Catalogue topics
- World War I
- nursing
- heroism
- martyrdom
Track guide
- 01 - Introduction — 9:35
- 02 - The Heel of the Oppressor — 12:10
- 03 - The Arrest — 7:19
- 04 - Spinning the Toils — 6:22
- 05 - The Secret Trial — 7:20
- 06 - The Fight For a Life — 10:47
- 07 - The Blood of the Martyr — 9:39
- 08 - In Memoriam — 15:52
- 09 - British Official Reprobation — 9:23
- 10 - Germany's Cynical Defence — 8:48
- 11 - Justice and Savagery — 5:33
- 12 - Pulpit and Pen Unite — 14:02
- 13 - Lash of the World's Press — 32:35
- 14 - America's Verdict — 8:00
- 15 - Conclusion — 10:14
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