Mary Cary, Frequently Martha: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha, credited to Kate Langley Bosher, 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 Mary Cary, Frequently Martha, by Kate Langley Bosher. Read by Jan MacGillivray. "My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; and that’s why I am going to write this story." So begins Mary’s diary, which she fills with her various doings and misadventures at the Asylum in Virginia and her sharp observations about life and human nature. She loathes Miss Bray, the head of the Asylum, who is not above telling bald-faced lies to the Board to further her own selfish ends. She loves Miss Katherine, the Asylum’s resident nurse, who has befriended Mary and serves as a gentle role model for the child. As for Martha, she is Mary’s "other self" who speaks out—and sometimes acts out—in spite of Mary’s better nature. When she unexpectedly discovers her family background, Mary writes a letter to her uncle that leads to some surprising results on the way to a happy ending. The Chicago Record-Herald of March 12, 1910 stated, "Let’s be glad for books like Mary Cary. It isn’t so much what Mary Cary does, however, as what she is, bless her! that warms the cockles of the chilliest, most snugly corseted heart." (Summary by Jan MacGillivray)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mary Cary, Frequently Martha
• Author credits: Kate Langley Bosher
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 3:51:06

Catalogue topics

• youth fiction
• children's fiction
• fiction
• orphans

Track guide

1. 01 - An Unthankful Orphan — 18:43
2. 02 - The Coming of Miss Katherine — 17:43
3. 03 - Mary, Frequently Martha — 16:13
4. 04 - The Stepped-on and the Steppers — 14:13
5. 05 - 'Here Comes the Bride!' — 15:05
6. 06 - 'My Lady of the Lovely Heart' — 13:23
7. 07 - 'Sterilized and Fertilized' — 7:06
8. 08 - Mary Cary's Business — 13:10
9. 09 - Love is Best — 16:36
10. 10 - The Reagan Ball — 7:30
11. 11 - Finding Out — 23:12
12. 12 - A True Miracle — 18:51
13. 13 - His Coming — 10:25
14. 14 - The Hurt of Happiness — 19:08
15. 15 - A Real Wedding — 19:55

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