A Superfluous Woman: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Superfluous Woman by Emma Francis Brooke: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 31 original MP3 tracks, 11:06:07 running time and a link to listen.
A Superfluous Woman, credited to Emma Francis Brooke, 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 Superfluous Woman by Emma Francis Brooke. Read by Bruce Pirie Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at the end of the 19th century. At the opening of the story, we find Jessamine Halliday, a pampered young aristocrat, languishing and apparently close to death. Her desperate family has called in a maverick doctor, who recognizes that she suffers from the idleness and listlessness too often experienced by upper-class English women. The only “medicine” she needs is a change of thinking and new self-awareness. Accordingly, the doctor coaches her to think more critically about her role as a woman and about the uses of meaningful labor. (Partly, this doctor is a spokesperson for the author: Emma Brooke was prominently engaged in feminist and socialist thought.) Jessamine tries to radically re-invent herself by fleeing London (and a looming high-society marriage), to seek humble work as a farm helper in Scotland. It turns out, however, that it is not so easy to cast off the assumptions and controls of a lifetime. (Summary by Bruce Pirie)
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Superfluous Woman
- Author credits: Emma Francis Brooke
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 31
- Listed recording duration: 11:06:07
Catalogue topics
- socialism
- feminism
- the New Woman
- bildungsroman
- syphilis
- 1890s
- condition of women
- sexually transmitted disease
Opening tracks: first 24 of 31
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 18:26
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 28:17
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 28:18
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 12:45
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 12:38
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 17:45
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 12:06
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 18:38
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 17:16
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 17:55
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:31
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 21:25
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 7:34
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 21:39
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 8:04
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 27:52
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 25:19
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 19:07
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 25:22
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 22:24
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 17:24
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 21:58
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 32:15
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 31:59
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