I, Mary MacLane: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

I, Mary MacLane, credited to Mary MacLane, 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 I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane. Read in English by Lynne Thompson Described as "the first blogger", Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead of her time. Her beloved father died when she was a young child, and at the age of 8, her stepfather moved the family from its home in Winnipeg, Canada to Montana in the United States, where young Mary had a hard time making friends. Her sensational autobiographical style of writing was considered scandalous, as she told of her bohemian lifestyle, feminist politics and open bisexuality. Although popular during her lifetime, among a sensation-seeking public, and being credited with influencing such writers as Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton, her work lost its popularity after her death at the age of 48. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: I, Mary MacLane
• Author credits: Mary MacLane
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 77
• Listed recording duration: 7:51:28

Catalogue topics

• feminism
• sensationalism
• bisexualism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 77

1. 01 - A crucible of my own making — 5:34
2. 02 - Half inevitably, half by choice — 4:44
3. 03 - A twisted moral — 2:58
4. 04 - Everyday and to-morrow — 14:35
5. 05 - A mathematic dead-wall — 1:48
6. 06 - My neat blue chair — 4:39
7. 07 - A lost person — 1:40
8. 08 - A thin damnedness — 7:07
9. 09 - A prison of self — 2:09
10. 10 - A winding sheet — 17:34
11. 11 - The Dover road — 3:29
12. 12 - The harp of worn strings — 3:15
13. 13 - A strongly-windy Saturday — 0:46
14. 14 - A someway separate individual — 3:30
15. 15 - Sincerity and despair — 4:53
16. 16 - It’s not death — 0:40
17. 17 - A human prerogative — 3:11
18. 18 - The merciless beauty — 6:28
19. 19 - My shoes — 4:06
20. 20 - An eerie quality — 1:08
21. 21 - A helliad — 3:48
22. 22 - Swift go my days — 2:36
23. 23 - By the blood of dead Americans — 1:51
24. 24 - To express me — 6:26

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