Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain, credited to Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by Kelly S. Taylor Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain is a collection of three narratives about life in the theater based on Mowatt’s career on stage. The stories, “Stella,” “The Prompter’s Daughter,” and “The Unknown Tragedian” reveal the every-day challenges faced by Victorian theatrical workers and argue against prejudices against this profession still held by many people at that time. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mimic Life; or Before and Behind the Curtain
• Author credits: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 11:47:02

Catalogue topics

• melodrama
• theater history

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 2:05
2. 01 - Stella Chapter I — 36:18
3. 02 - Stella Chapter II — 27:10
4. 03 - Stella Chapter III — 32:16
5. 04 - Stella Chapter IV — 50:36
6. 05 - Stella Chapter V — 39:13
7. 06 - Stella Chapter VI — 25:33
8. 07 - Stella Chapter VII — 36:50
9. 08 - Stella Chapter VIII — 44:02
10. 09 - Stella Chapter IX — 38:00
11. 10 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter I — 38:32
12. 11 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter II — 34:06
13. 12 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter III — 20:03
14. 13 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter IV — 41:59
15. 14 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter V — 29:34
16. 15 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter VI — 18:23
17. 16 - Prompter's Daughter Chapter VIII — 32:05
18. 17 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter I — 45:10
19. 18 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter II — 27:10
20. 19 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter III — 27:15
21. 20 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter IV — 17:08
22. 21 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter V — 17:12
23. 22 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter VI — 11:01
24. 23 - Unknown Tragedian Chapter VII — 15:21

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