The Type-Writer Girl: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Type-Writer Girl, credited to Grant Allen, 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 Type-Writer Girl, by Grant Allen (under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner). Read by Grant Hurlock. "There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young lady, crushed between classes above and below, and left with scarce a chance of earning her bread with decency." So says Juliet Appleton’s boss, encouraging her to put her story into print. How will this college-educated 23-year-old survive the Darwinian Battle of Life in late Victorian England? She’s fundless in London but armed, by way of adaptive structures, with those two high-tech devices of the day: a bicycle for mobility and a typewriter for utility. (Summary by Grant Hurlock)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Type-Writer Girl
• Author credits: Grant Allen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 5:38:27

Catalogue topics

• feminist fiction
• Olive Pratt Rayner
• Grant Allen

Track guide

1. 01 Introduces a Latter-Day Heroine — 13:10
2. 02 The Struggle for Life — 14:52
3. 03 Environment Wins — 16:39
4. 04 The Choice of a Patron — 8:04
5. 05 Vive L'Anarchie — 17:46
6. 06 The Inner Brotherhood — 10:39
7. 07 A Mutinous Mutineer — 19:50
8. 08 Called 'Of Accidents' — 15:48
9. 09 I Play Carmen — 11:24
10. 10 Sic Me Servavit Apollo! — 13:16
11. 11 A Sail on the Horizon — 22:26
12. 12 A Cavalier Makes Advances — 7:43
13. 13 Concerning Romeo — 11:01
14. 14 'Now Barabbas Was a Publisher' — 13:14
15. 15 Fresh Light on Romeo — 13:44
16. 16 I Try Literature — 13:56
17. 17 A Drawn Battle — 24:33
18. 18 An Autumn Holiday — 12:05
19. 19 'O Romeo, Romeo!' — 25:52
20. 20 'Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?' — 26:20
21. 21 Envoy Plenipotentiary — 14:38
22. 22 I Cling to the Rigging — 11:43

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