Mrs. Shelley: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mrs. Shelley, credited to Lucy Madox Rossetti, 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 Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Rossetti. Read by Amy Gramour, Cori Samuels; Anna Simon; and Cate Mackenzie I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs.Shelley. -Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti Mrs. Shelley is a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, author of Frankenstein and other works, wife of Percy Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who penned The Vindication of the Rights of Women, and daughter of William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist. The life of this woman, who at nineteen wrote a story that has become a part of everyday culture, is its own story to tell. The author Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti was the daughter of the artist Ford Madox Brown and the wife of William Michael Rossetti of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (Summary by A.L. Gramour)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mrs. Shelley
• Author credits: Lucy Madox Rossetti
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 6:43:37

Catalogue topics

• biography
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Percy Shelley

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Preface — 2:07
2. 01 - Chapter I: PARENTAGE - Part 1 — 20:12
3. 02 - Chapter I: PARENTAGE - Part 2 — 20:09
4. 03 - Chapter II, Part I: GIRLHOOD OF MARY--PATERNAL TROUBLES — 11:53
5. 04 - Chapter II, Part II: GIRLHOOD OF MARY--PATERNAL TROUBLES — 10:57
6. 05 - Chapter III, Part I: SHELLEY — 9:35
7. 06 - Chapter III, Part II: SHELLEY — 14:20
8. 07 - Chapter III, Part III SHELLEY — 15:37
9. 08 - Chapter IV: MARY AND SHELLEY- Part 1 — 14:39
10. 09 - Chapter IV: MARY AND SHELLEY- Part 2 — 9:08
11. 10 - CHAPTER V: LIFE IN ENGLAND — 18:50
12. 11 - CHAPTER VI:DEATH OF SHELLEY'S GRANDFATHER, AND BIRTH OF A CHILD.Part 1 — 14:49
13. 12 - Chapter VI: DEATH OF SHELLEY'S GRANDFATHER, AND BIRTH OF A CHILD-Part 2 — 12:41
14. 13 - CHAPTER VII: 'FRANKENSTEIN' — 19:00
15. 14 - CHAPTER VIII-RETURN TO ENGLAND, Part I — 10:11
16. 15 - CHAPTER VIII: RETURN TO ENGLAND, Part 2 — 12:56
17. 16 - CHAPTER IX:LIFE IN ITALY, Part 1 — 9:53
18. 17 - CHAPTER IX: LIFE IN ITALY, Part 2 — 10:25
19. 18 - Chapter X: MARY'S DESPONDENCY AND BIRTH OF A SON — 5:45
20. 19 - CHAPTER XI: GODWIN AND 'VALPERGA' — 19:27
21. 20 - CHAPTER XII-LAST DAYS WITH SHELLEY, Part 1 — 14:58
22. 21 - CHAPTER XII: LAST DAYS WITH SHELLEY, Part 2 — 16:41
23. 22 - CHAPTER XIII: WIDOWHOOD — 21:06
24. 23 - CHAPTER XIV: LITERARY WORK, Part 1 — 16:32

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