Heroines of Fiction: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Heroines of Fiction, credited to William Dean Howells, 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 Heroines of Fiction by William Dean Howells. Read in English by Jim Locke This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the time. (Summary by Jim Locke)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Heroines of Fiction
• Author credits: William Dean Howells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 17:40:17

Catalogue topics

• social commentary
• character delineation
• religious controversies

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 01 - Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century — 24:02
2. 02 - Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina — 23:18
3. 03 - Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's — 26:43
4. 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet — 28:02
5. 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland — 32:15
6. 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price — 27:31
7. 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe — 23:53
8. 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton — 23:59
9. 09 - Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines — 26:28
10. 10 - Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's — 25:30
11. 11 - Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens — 20:53
12. 12 - Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period — 25:08
13. 13 - Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines — 28:22
14. 14 - Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne — 30:31
15. 15 - Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda — 32:42
16. 16 - Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines — 26:43
17. 17 - Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines — 22:50
18. 18 - Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre — 24:20
19. 19 - Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte — 24:09
20. 20 - Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia — 27:36
21. 21 - Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines — 30:30
22. 22 - Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines — 29:35
23. 23 - Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel — 42:17
24. 24 - Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke — 30:41

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