Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land, credited to Rosa Campbell Praed, 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 Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land by Rosa Campbell Praed. Read by Kirsty Leishman Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Rosamund Tallant, the wife of the newly-appointed governor of Leichardt's Land. In Leichardt's Town, Lady Bridget, also known as Biddy, is reunited with her old friend and collaborator, Joan Gildea, special correspondent for The Imperialist newspaper. While visiting Joan, Biddy meets Colin McKeith, a roughly-hewn, Scottish-born pioneer, drover, miner, sometime-politician, and magistrate in the north-eastern colony. Biddy and Colin fall in love: she with the adventure a life with him promises, he with an ideal of her noble heritage. In spite of Joan Gildea's misgivings, Biddy and Colin are soon married and leave Leichardt's Town to travel several days north to Colin's cattle property in a region known as the Leura. As Biddy and Colin embark on their life together, the contemporary issues of colonial Australia are revealed: the extreme environment, labour shortages and organisation, police brutality, immigration policy, and the plight of Australia's First Peoples. The couple discover fundamental differences in their perspectives on many topics. When Bridget's former love, Willoughby Maule, newly-widowed and affluent, visits her in the Leura, the couple's strained relationship is further tested. (Summary by Kirsty Leishman)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
• Author credits: Rosa Campbell Praed
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 10:21:12

Catalogue topics

• Fiction
• Woman Writer, Queensland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Book 1 - Chapter 1 — 10:42
2. 02 - Book 1 - Chapter 2 — 9:25
3. 03 - Book 1 - Chapter 3 — 4:06
4. 04 - Book 1 - Chapter 4 — 16:31
5. 05 - Book 1 - Chapter 5 — 12:53
6. 06 - Book 1 - Chapter 6 — 7:14
7. 07 - Book 1 - Chapter 7 — 13:49
8. 08 - Book 1 - Chapter 8 — 12:22
9. 09 - Book 1 - Chapter 9 — 8:23
10. 10 - Book 1 - Chapter 10 — 12:07
11. 11 - Book 1 - Chapter 11 — 8:52
12. 12 - Book 1 - Chapter 12 — 17:39
13. 13 - Book 1 - Chapter 13 — 7:05
14. 14 - Book 1 - Chapter 14 — 9:40
15. 15 - Book 1 - Chapter 15 — 12:18
16. 16 - Book 2 - Chapter 1 — 18:40
17. 17 - Book 2 - Chapter 2 — 22:04
18. 18 - Book 2 - Chapter 3 — 14:22
19. 19 - Book 2 - Chapter 4 — 18:13
20. 20 - Book 2 - Chapter 6 — 21:36
21. 21 - Book 2 - Chapter 6 — 15:42
22. 22 - Book 2 - Chapter 7 — 14:13
23. 23 - Book 2 - Chapter 8 — 18:14
24. 24 - Book 2 - Chapter 9 — 12:34

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