Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls, credited to L. Frank Baum, 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 Louise and the Liberty Girls, by L. Frank Baum. Read by Sibella Denton. The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives— a concept Baum had experimented with earlier, in The Daring Twins (1911) and Phoebe Daring (1912). The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster. Baum's publisher, Reilly & Britton, rejected that manuscript, apparently judging the heroine too independent. Baum wrote a new version of the book; the original manuscript is lost. The title character is Mary Louise Burrows. In this, the fourth book of the series, Mary Louise and friends form a group dedicated to supporting the soldiers in World War I, and she brings Josie O'Gorman in to spoil a treasonous plot against the government. (Summary from Wikipedia and Sibella Denton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
• Author credits: L. Frank Baum
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 4:17:38

Catalogue topics

• young adult
• mystery
• girl detectives
• WWI
• treason
• patriotism
• bluebird series
• edith van dyne

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Mass Meeting — 9:26
2. 02 - Mary Louise Takes Command — 7:42
3. 03 - The Liberty Girls — 16:05
4. 04 - The Traitor — 13:23
5. 05 - Unconvincing Testimony — 8:49
6. 06 - To Help Win The War — 12:45
7. 07 - The Liberty Shop — 8:14
8. 08 - The Detective's Daughter — 10:18
9. 09 - Gathering up the Threads — 10:56
10. 10 - The Explosion — 7:15
11. 11 - A Font of Type — 15:46
12. 12 - Josie Buys a Desk — 15:06
13. 13 - Joe Langley, Soldier — 5:55
14. 14 - The Professor is Annoyed — 8:41
15. 15 - Suspenders for Sale — 10:17
16. 16 - Mrs. Charleworth — 11:20
17. 17 - The Black Satchel — 10:10
18. 18 - A Hint from Annie Boyle — 6:42
19. 19 - The Printing Office — 12:31
20. 20 - One Girl's Wits — 8:04
21. 21 - Surprises — 9:12
22. 22 - A Slight Mistake — 9:32
23. 23 - The Flashlight — 12:29
24. 24 - After the Crisis — 7:07

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