Hearts of Controversy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hearts of Controversy, credited to Alice Meynell, 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 Hearts of Controversy by Alice Meynell. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." The Meynell's later converted to Roman Catholicism. In this volume Meynell offers her impressions on some of the best known literary figures of her day including Charles Dickens, Tennyson.and the Bronte sisters. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hearts of Controversy
• Author credits: Alice Meynell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 2:19:56

Catalogue topics

• dickens
• bronte
• literary criticism
• Tennyson
• swinburne
• charmian

Track guide

1. 01 - Some Thoughts of a Reader of Tennyson — 28:57
2. 02 - Dickens as a Man of Letters — 32:34
3. 03 - Swinburne’s Lyrical Poetry — 28:26
4. 04 - Charlotte and Emily Brontë — 31:00
5. 05 - Charmian — 9:47
6. 06 - The Century of Moderation — 9:12

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