In a North Country Village: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
In a North Country Village by M. E. Francis: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 12 original MP3 tracks, 5:00:40 running time and a link to listen.
In a North Country Village, credited to M. E. Francis, 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 In a North Country Village, by M. E. Francis. Read by Phil Benson. M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell family, who remain squires of Little Crosby, the last Catholic recusant village in England, which lies a few miles north of Liverpool. Blundell died young and Mary went on to write more than 50 books, using her husband's Christian name as pen name, including this collection of 12 stories set in Little Crosby (‘Thornleigh’). A romantic portrait of mid-19th century village life written from an aristocratic point of view, In a North Country Village (1896) is built around striking portraits of strong Lancashire women surviving in the face of Hardyesque tragedy and the weaknesses of their men folk. M. E. Francis set many of her books in Ireland and Dorset, but several were set in Lancashire, including A Daughter of the Soil (1895), Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) and Marjory o'th' Mill (1907). (Summary by Phil Benson)
Recording facts
- Recording title: In a North Country Village
- Author credits: M. E. Francis
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 12
- Listed recording duration: 5:00:40
Catalogue topics
- Lancashire dialect
- village life
Track guide
- 01 - Thornleigh — 23:59
- 02 - Gaffer's Child — 30:50
- 03 - Celebrities — 28:30
- 04 - Nancy — 35:48
- 05 - Politics — 14:08
- 06 - The Gilly'fers — 34:07
- 07 - Aunt Jinny — 29:26
- 08 - On the other side of the wall — 23:25
- 09 - Little paupers — 18:51
- 10 - Here and there — 25:53
- 11 - 'Our Joe' — 20:15
- 12 - Mates — 15:31
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