The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2), credited to Henry Handel Richardson, 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 The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson. Read in English by kirstyl Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding school at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, Victoria. It's this experience that feeds directly into The Getting of Wisdom. Laura Tweedle Rambotham, the main character, is the eldest child of a country family. She is a clever and highly imaginative child, given to inventing romantic stories for the entertainment of her younger siblings, and an avid reader. She is also both proud and sensitive and her mother finds her difficult to handle. Her mother is the widow of a barrister who supports her family in genteel poverty on her earnings from embroidery. At the age of twelve Laura is sent off to boarding school in Melbourne. Her experiences at school shock and humiliate the unworldly Laura. The girls at the school are generally from rather wealthy families and those, like Laura, who come from less fortunate backgrounds learn very early not to divulge their circumstances for fear of ridicule. From time to time Laura lets little snippets of information about her family slip out, and she suffers for it. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)
• Author credits: Henry Handel Richardson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:06:30

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• australia
• teen-young-adult
• women writers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Chapter I — 14:33
2. 02 - Chapter II — 14:59
3. 03 - Chapter III — 15:05
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 21:19
5. 05 - Chapter V — 18:13
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 9:47
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 18:23
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 15:27
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 21:14
10. 10 - Chapter X — 14:01
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 13:44
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 17:33
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 8:41
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 22:48
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 16:47
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 15:18
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 12:58
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 19:51
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 28:13
20. 20 - Chapter XX — 16:21
21. 21 - Chapter XXI — 15:37
22. 22 - Chapter XXII — 18:21
23. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 16:47
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV — 26:43

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