Superwomen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Superwomen, credited to Albert Payson Terhune, 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 Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune. Read in English by BettyB; aniroo; Ciufi Galeazzi; Linda Johnson In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune chooses well-known figures whose stories are as much myth as history, like Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, artists such as George Sand, and a number of ladies whose names are not so well-known today, because their work was not immediately visible to the uninitiated. All stories will be interested to the modern feminist, and each reader and listener should be able to find a pesonal heroine among these select twelve. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Superwomen
• Author credits: Albert Payson Terhune
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 7:55:13

Catalogue topics

• women
• biography
• feminism
• woman
• suffrage
• 1916
• ladies
• 2017

Track guide

1. 00 - Foreword — 2:21
2. 01 - Lola Montez, the Dancer who kicked over a Throne — 29:05
3. 02 - Ninon de L'Enclos, premiere Siren of two Centuries — 36:24
4. 03 - Peg Woffington, Irish Heart Conjurer — 32:30
5. 04 - Helen of Troy, Model for all the Sirens of the Centuries — 47:50
6. 05 - Madame Jumel, New York's first official Heart Breaker — 45:48
7. 06 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, the 'Actress Heart Queen' — 37:17
8. 07 - Cleopatra, 'the Serpent of old Nile' — 41:24
9. 08 - George Sand, the hopelessly ugly Siren — 35:21
10. 09 - Madame du Barry, the Seven-Million-Dollar Siren — 44:17
11. 10 - 'The most gorgeous Lady Blessington' — 45:31
12. 11 - Madame Recamier, the frozen-hearted Angel — 37:16
13. 12 - Lady Hamilton, Patron Saint of Dime-Novel Heroines — 40:07

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