Lady Byron Vindicated: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lady Byron Vindicated, credited to Harriet Beecher Stowe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's sordid private life which had led to a separation from his wife and drove him out of England, as told to her by Lady Byron herself before her death. Stowe wrote this article long after Lady Byron's death, when Lady Byron‘s impeccable reputation was being smeared across Europe by Byron's influential literary friends, and her trustees were doing nothing to defend her. Criticism against the article raged in the American and European press and damaged the Atlantic's circulation, but Stowe remained confident, and the following year, she expanded her article into this full-length exposé. Sprinkled throughout with Byron's biting poetry, Lady Byron's and other notable correspondence, and Stowe's outrage at the way women were belittled and treated as property during the Victorian period, the invectives in this book are, even by modern standards, intense! (Summary by Michele Fry, Soloist)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lady Byron Vindicated
• Author credits: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 11:06:31

Catalogue topics

• Scandal
• infidelity
• lord byron
• don juan

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - 1.1 Publisher's Preface, and Part 1, Chapter 1, Introduction — 10:22
2. 02 - 1.2.1 The Attack On Lady Byron, Part 1 — 40:17
3. 03 - 1.2.2 The Attack On Lady Byron, Part 2 — 40:54
4. 04 - 1.3 Resume' Of The Conspiracy — 12:02
5. 05 - 1.4.1 Results After Lord Byron's Death, Part 1 — 34:40
6. 06 - 1.4.2 Results After Lord Byron's Death, Part 2 — 34:39
7. 07 - 1.4.3 Results After Lord Byron's Death, Part 3 — 23:05
8. 08 - 1.5.1 The Attack On Lady Byron's Grave, Part 1 — 26:25
9. 09 - 1.5.2 The Attack On Lady Byron's Grave, Part 2 — 28:33
10. 10 - 2.1 Lady Byron As I Knew Her — 37:55
11. 11 - 2.2 Lady Byron's Story As Told To Me — 29:29
12. 12 - 2.3.1 Chronological Summary Of Events, Part 1 — 25:32
13. 13 - 2.3.2 Chronological Summary Of Events, Part 2 — 25:40
14. 14 - 2.4 The Character of the Two Witnesses Compared — 29:51
15. 15 - 2.5.1 The Direct Argument To Prove The Crime, Part 1 — 26:59
16. 16 - 2.5.2.The Direct Argument To Prove The Crime, Part 2 — 24:52
17. 17 - 2.6 Physiological Argument — 26:15
18. 18 - 2.7 How Could She Love Him? — 14:27
19. 19 - 2.8 Conclusion — 7:26
20. 20 - 3.1.1 The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, Part 1 — 36:19
21. 21 - 3.1.2 The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, Part 2 — 25:18
22. 22 - 3.1.3 The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, Part 3 — 27:47
23. 23 - 3.2 Lord Lindsay's Letter to ''The London Times'' — 19:55
24. 24 - 3.3 Dr. Forbes Winslow's Letter to ''The London Times'' — 6:49

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