Some German Women and Their Salons: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Some German Women and Their Salons, credited to Mary Hargrave, 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 Some German Women and Their Salons by Mary Hargrave. Read in English by AliceStein. German women living at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century have paved the way to modernity for the female gender in Germany. Mary Hargrave portrays the most important ones, who built their personality and fame by networking through keeping open houses for the noteworthy of their time and keeping contact to other women by letters. Mary Hargrave wrote essayistic texts on history, women and music and is, unfortunately, forgotten today, even though she gives such colourful, well researched and enjoyable pictures of her subjects. Nevertheless, the text contains outdated and discriminatory wording and opinion on gender and "race". (Summary by AliceStein)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Some German Women and Their Salons
• Author credits: Mary Hargrave
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:55:25

Catalogue topics

• women
• Goethe
• authors
• Romanticism
• schlegel
• new germany
• queen luise
• salons

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 9:05
2. 01 - Elisabeth Goethe Part 1 — 29:38
3. 02 - Elisabeth Goethe Part 2 — 20:40
4. 03 - Elisabeth Goethe Part 3 — 21:18
5. 04 - The Jewish Salons Introduction — 7:46
6. 05 - Henriette Herz Part 1 — 27:47
7. 06 - Henriette Herz Part 2 — 24:02
8. 07 - Rahel Varnhagen Part 1 — 30:28
9. 08 - Rahel Varnhagen Part 2 — 32:38
10. 09 - Rahel Varnhagen Part 3 — 25:14
11. 10 - Bettina von Arnim Part 1 — 23:06
12. 11 - Bettina von Arnim Part 2 — 21:41
13. 12 - Bettina von Arnim Part 3 — 26:37
14. 13 - Queen Luise Part 1 — 20:50
15. 14 - Queen Luise Part 2 — 19:14
16. 15 - Queen Luise Part 3 — 19:43
17. 16 - Caroline Schlegel Part 1 — 23:02
18. 17 - Caroline Schlegel Part 2 — 18:33
19. 18 - Charlotte Stieglitz — 14:03

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