The Sylph: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Sylph, credited to Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, 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 The Sylph by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. Read in English by Algy Pug; Celine Major; Larry Wilson; Devorah Allen; KevinS; ToddHW; KirksVoice; Jim Locke; JT; JennPratt; Adrian Stephens Georgianna Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire was one of the leading ladies of her time. There for, her novel, which contains many autobiographical plots, has been published anonymously. The author was thought to have been Sophia Briscoe, a contemporary novelist, or Fanny Burney, author of Evelina which was published at about the same time. However the duchess admitted to writing the story of Julia Grenville, a welsh beauty who marries an older man. She very quickly discovers her husband is a libertine and a rake, and that she has no idea how to behave in London society. Yet she has a sylph, a man who watches over her and gives her advice. The novel shows London society in a scathing manner, and teaches us that even in the darkest times there are good people along the way. - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Sylph
• Author credits: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 8:33:11

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• love story
• Wales
• social novel
• epistelary fiction
• guardian angel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. 01 - Section 1: letters 1 and 2- from Sir William Stanley to Lord Bidolph — 36:31
2. 02 - Section 2: letter 3: from Julia Stanley to Miss Grenville — 10:11
3. 03 - Section 3: letter 4: from Lord Bidolph to Colonel MONTAGUE — 6:34
4. 04 - Section 4: letter 5- from Louisa Grenville to Lady Stanley — 2:50
5. 05 - Section 5: Letter 6: from HENRY WOODLEY to James Spencer — 11:31
6. 06 - Section 6: letter 7- from James Spencer to Henry Woodley — 3:52
7. 07 - Section 7: letter 8- from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 16:07
8. 08 - Section 8: letter 9-Part 1. from Mr. Grenville to Lady Stanley — 35:51
9. 09 - Section 9:-Letter 9-Part 2-from Mr. Grenville to Lady Stanley — 30:15
10. 10 - Section 10: letter 10- from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 18:14
11. 11 - Section 11: letter 11- from Miss Grenville to Lady Stanley — 4:35
12. 12 - Section 12: letters 12-14- from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 39:30
13. 13 - Section 13: letter 15- from Miss Grenville to Lady Stanley — 3:45
14. 14 - Section 14: letters 16-17: from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 13:49
15. 15 - Section 15: letter 18- from Miss Grenville to Lady Stanley — 2:16
16. 16 - Section 16: letters 19-21: from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 34:36
17. 17 - Section 17: letter 22- from Lord Bidolph to Colonel MONTAGUE — 5:17
18. 18 - Section 18: letters 23- 24: from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 12:40
19. 19 - Section 19: letter 25- from the Sylph to Lady Stanley — 5:53
20. 20 - Section 20: letter 26- from Lady Stanley to the Sylph — 2:56
21. 21 - Section 21: letters 27-28: from Lady Stanley to Miss Grenville — 43:23
22. 22 - Section 22: letter 29- from the Sylph to Lady Stanley — 3:26
23. 23 - Section 23: letter 30- from Lady Stanley to the Sylph — 5:10
24. 24 - section 24: letter 31- from Miss Grenville to Lady Stanley — 5:06

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