The Three Rulers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Three Rulers, credited to Adelaide Anne Procter, 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 volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Three Rulers by Adelaide Anne Procter. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27, 2015. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Caitlin Buckley; Christie Crews; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Ian King; Joe Brenneman; J. McDougall; Jim McNamara; Lee Ann Howlett; Livia F.; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper and SkyAlbatross. Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Procter's literary career began when she was a teenager; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism appear to have strongly influenced her poetry, which deals most commonly with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Her poetry went through numerous editions in the 19th century; Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Her poems were set to music and made into hymns, and were published in the United States and Germany as well as in England. Nonetheless, by the early 20th century her reputation had diminished, and few modern critics have given her work attention. Those who have, however, argue that Procter's work is significant, in part for what it reveals about how Victorian women expressed otherwise repressed feelings. (summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Three Rulers
• Author credits: Adelaide Anne Procter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 19:03

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• kings
• rulers

Track guide

1. 01 - The Three Rulers - Read by BK — 1:37
2. 02 - The Three Rulers - Read by CB — 1:03
3. 03 - The Three Rulers - Read by CRC — 1:15
4. 04 - The Three Rulers - Read by DL — 1:10
5. 05 - The Three Rulers - Read by EL — 1:15
6. 06 - The Three Rulers - Read by GG — 1:25
7. 07 - The Three Rulers - Read by IK — 1:14
8. 08 - The Three Rulers - Read by JAB — 1:14
9. 09 - The Three Rulers - Read by JM — 1:10
10. 10 - The Three Rulers - Read by JMC — 1:07
11. 11 - The Three Rulers - Read by LAH — 1:15
12. 12 - The Three Rulers - Read by LF — 1:18
13. 13 - The Three Rulers - Read by LLW — 1:26
14. 14 - The Three Rulers - Read by MK — 1:22
15. 15 - The Three Rulers - Read by SABT — 1:12

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