An Englishwoman in the Philippines: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Englishwoman in the Philippines, credited to Enid Dauncey, 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 An Englishwoman in the Philippines by Enid Dauncey. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months from 1904 to 1905. Her account of that stay, in the form of letters to friends, is something more than a travelogue, as she made many astute observations that would normally be missed by someone simply passing through. Her stay there occurred just a few years after the Americans replaced the Spanish as the colonial masters, and she includes anecdotes that reveal that tense relationship, as well as the naivete of the Americans called upon to administer their new 'protectorate'. Mrs. Dauncey's entertaining description of Philippine social and material life, with her comments on the culture from her foreigner's perspective, are enlivened by her natural curiosity and dry wit. (Summary by Ted Lienhart)

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Englishwoman in the Philippines
• Author credits: Enid Dauncey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Combined MP3 track duration: 10:19:13

Catalogue topics

• travel
• memoirs
• memoir
• letters
• philippines--description and travel
• philippines--social life and customs
• oceania
• east asia

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 00 - Introduction — 1:38
2. 01 - Letter 1: Manila — 13:17
3. 02 - Letter 2: From Manila to Iloilo — 13:54
4. 03 - Letter 3: First Impressions of Iloilo — 13:15
5. 04 - Letter 4: A Philippine House, etc. — 21:07
6. 05 - Letter 5: Housekeeping in Iloilo — 14:54
7. 06 - Letter 6: A Wasted Land — 15:13
8. 07 - Letter 7: Customs and Dress of the Natives — 13:03
9. 08 - Letter 8: Social Amusements — 16:53
10. 09 - Letter 9: Tariffs, Insects — 13:33
11. 10 - Letter 10: A Filipino Theatre - Carabaos — 14:25
12. 11 - Letter 11: Some Results of the American Occupation — 24:14
13. 12 - Letter 12: Chinese New Year, etc. — 15:11
14. 13 - Letter 13: Some Influences of Climate, etc. — 12:51
15. 14 - Letter 14: Voyage to Manila — 17:55
16. 15 - Letter 15: An Official Entertainment — 13:32
17. 16 - Letter 16: Manila and Its Inhabitants — 27:47
18. 17 - Letter 17: Democracy and Society in Manila — 14:24
19. 18 - Letter 18: The Return Voyage, etc. — 18:03
20. 19 - Letter 19: A Baile, etc. — 14:24
21. 20 - Letter 20: Filipino Indolence, etc. — 8:36
22. 21 - Letter 21: The Wharves, etc. — 14:11
23. 22 - Letter 22: A Trip to Guimaras, etc. — 15:30
24. 23 - Letter 23: A Tropical Shower, etc. — 7:01

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