Ginger-Snaps: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ginger-Snaps, credited to Fanny Fern, 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 Ginger-Snaps by Fanny Fern. Read in English by Winnifred Assmann. American novelist, children's writer, humorist, and newspaper columnist from the 1850s to the 1870s, Fanny Fern (real name of Sara Payson Willis) was the first woman to have her own regular column, became the highest-paid columnist in the US by 1855, and would support herself for more than 20 years by her writing. Ginger-Snaps, published in 1870, covers a broad range of topics in plain language and with biting humor. She describes these columns in her Preface as follows: “When I was a little girl, I used to play "make ginger-snaps;" and I always tossed in all the ginger in the spice-box, be it more or less; so if you find these rather biting, attribute it to the force of early habits. Beside, they are not intended for a "square meal;" only to nibble at, in the steamboat, or railroad-car, or under the trees in the country; or when your dear, but tardy John, is keeping you waiting, with your gloves buttoned, and your bonnet-strings tied; or, best of all, when you are sitting in your rocking-chair, nursing that dear little baby. I do not think the milk of human kindness is wanting in these Ginger-Snaps, and I trust they are—kneaded. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann and Fanny Fern

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ginger-Snaps
• Author credits: Fanny Fern
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 61
• Listed recording duration: 8:09:57

Catalogue topics

• humor
• newspaper columns
• everyday observations

Opening tracks: first 24 of 61

1. 00 - Preface — 1:23
2. 01 - Dinner-Parties — 11:27
3. 02 - The Bride's New House — 15:17
4. 03 - The Happy Lot of a Sexton — 4:58
5. 04 - Literary Aspirants — 9:58
6. 05 - What Shall We Do for the Little Children on Sunday? — 4:47
7. 06 - My House in the Country — 5:50
8. 07 - Why Wear Mourning? — 5:13
9. 08 - "Delightful Men" — 14:58
10. 09 - Choosing Presents — 8:25
11. 10 - A Bid for an Editorship — 4:28
12. 11 - A Sermon to Plymouth Pulpit — 4:20
13. 12 - Female Clerks — 4:34
14. 13 - Blue Monday — 12:57
15. 14 - The Fly in the Ointment — 10:23
16. 15 - Woman's Millennium — 10:24
17. 16 - English Notions about Women — 11:22
18. 17 - Rag-Tag and Bob-Tail Fashions — 6:21
19. 18 - Some Hints to Editors — 11:54
20. 19 - Help for the Helpful — 9:51
21. 20 - Women on the Platform — 9:41
22. 21 - Poverty and Independence — 6:09
23. 22 - The History of Our Late War — 6:22
24. 23 - Two Kinds of Women — 6:47

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