Fairy Fingers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fairy Fingers, credited to Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, 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 Fairy Fingers by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by Kelly S. Taylor Madelaine is the poor cousin of the aristocratic de Gramont family in France of the 1850’s. She is cherished by the beautiful young Bertha and secretly the beloved of the handsome Maurice, but she is barely tolerated by the haughty old countess. When her uncle’s scheming manages to cause a serious rift within the family, Madelaine finds she must rely on the skill of her “fairy fingers” and make her living as a seamstress. She winds up as the sought-after couturier “Mademoiselle Melanie” in Washington, D.C. and has an opportunity to help the now financially-imperiled de Gramonts. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fairy Fingers
• Author credits: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 22:28:41

Catalogue topics

• romance
• historical

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01 - Chapter I. Noblesse — 33:06
2. 02 - Chapter II. The Cousins — 20:00
3. 03 - Chapter III. Madeleine — 42:39
4. 04 - Chapter IV. Proposals — 12:12
5. 05 - Chapter V. Heart-beats — 35:09
6. 06 - Chapter VI. Unmasking — 37:45
7. 07 - Chapter VII. A Crisis — 32:10
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. Flight — 44:39
9. 09 - Chapter IX. The Empty Place — 41:40
10. 10 - Chapter X. The Humble Companion — 20:38
11. 11 - Chapter XI. Pursuit — 16:21
12. 12 - Chapter XII. The Sister of Charity — 28:09
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. Weary Days — 24:35
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. Diamonds and Emeralds — 28:52
15. 15 - Chapter XV. The Embroidered Handkerchief — 19:51
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. A Voice from the Lost One — 36:21
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. "Chiffons" — 23:03
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. Maurice — 19:07
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. The Aristocrats in America — 20:20
20. 20 - Chapter XX. The Incognita — 27:30
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. The Cytherea of Fashion — 16:16
22. 22 - Chapter XXII. Meeting — 40:03
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII. Noble Hands made Nobler — 36:51
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV. Feminine Belligerents — 32:12

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