Painted Fires: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Painted Fires, credited to Nellie McClung, 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 Painted Fires by Nellie McClung. Read in English by Atul Sharma. Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon - feminist, social activist, author, and political leader. When she was a child, she moved to Manitoba with her pioneering family. As a teacher in rural Manitoba, she was a keen observer of village life at the turn of the century. As a suffragette, she led the campaign for women's enfranchisement, which saw Manitoba become the first province in Canada to grant the vote to women in 1916, a right only granted at the national level in 1918, before either the US (1920) or UK (1928). Elected to the Alberta legislature in 1921, she championed children’s health care and women’s rights. As a member of the "famous five", whose statues now grace the grounds of the Manitoba legislature, her 1929 court challenge led to the recognition of women as “persons”, eligible to sit as federal senators. In Painted Fires, she tells the story of Helmi Milander, a young immigrant from Finland in the years before WWI. “Young, strong, and unafraid”, Helmi’s story weaves together the threads of McClung’s social activism, including the futility of war, woman’s suffrage, and the fate of immigrants in early 20th century Canada. (Summary by ASharma)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Painted Fires
• Author credits: Nellie McClung
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 9:38:44

Catalogue topics

• feminism
• pioneers
• women's rights
• canadiana
• immigration in the early 20th century

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Chapter I — 14:28
2. 02 - Chapter II — 13:50
3. 03 - Chapter III — 20:26
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 13:30
5. 05 - Chapter V — 19:49
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 21:57
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 24:56
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 28:54
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 17:19
10. 10 - Chapter X — 19:36
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 16:22
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 13:53
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 19:31
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 12:20
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 13:58
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 18:03
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 15:59
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 16:40
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 26:45
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 21:03
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 24:07
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 10:25
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 27:42
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 27:50

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