Some Famous Women: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Some Famous Women, credited to Louise Creighton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Some Famous Women by Louise Creighton. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria. But we also learn about St. Hilda, the 7th century royal princess who became an influential abbess, the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, and Isabella Bird, who thrilled Victorian readers with accounts of her lone travels on horseback to remote and perilous places. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Some Famous Women
• Author credits: Louise Creighton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:43:45

Catalogue topics

• Florence Nightingale
• Joan of Arc
• Queen Victoria
• Crimean War
• missionaries
• st. hilda
• fair maid of kent
• lady rachel russell

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 5:07
2. 02 - Ch. 1: St. Hilda — 15:30
3. 03 - Ch. 2: Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent — 17:56
4. 04 - Ch. 3: Jeanne d'Arc, Pt. 1 — 10:47
5. 05 - Ch. 3: Jeanne d'Arc, Pt. 2 — 15:21
6. 06 - Ch. 4: Margaret Beaufort — 21:43
7. 07 - Ch. 5: Rachel, Lady Russell — 24:05
8. 08 - Ch. 6: Elizabeth Fry — 20:02
9. 09 - Ch. 7: Mary Somerville — 23:44
10. 10 - Ch. 8: Julia Selina Inglis — 24:54
11. 11 - Ch. 9: Florence Nightingale, Pt. 1 — 11:24
12. 12 - Ch. 9: Florence Nightingale, Pt. 2 — 12:17
13. 13 - Ch. 10: Isabella Bird, afterwards Mrs. Bishop, Pt. 1 — 11:07
14. 14 - Ch. 10: Isabella Bird, afterwards Mrs. Bishop, Pt. 2 — 15:56
15. 15 - Ch. 11: Sister Dora — 25:08
16. 16 - Ch. 12: Queen Victoria, Pt. 1 — 13:30
17. 17 - Ch. 12: Queen Victoria, Pt. 2 — 15:14

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