The Women Who Make Our Novels: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Women Who Make Our Novels, credited to Grant M. Overton, 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 Women Who Make Our Novels by Grant M. Overton. Read in English by MaryAnn; Amanda Friday; Michele Eaton; Lynne Thompson; Vanessa Garcia; Mike Pelton; Daryl Wor; TriciaG; Lynne Carroll; Emily Maynard; Jennifer Dorr; Bellona Times; doonaboon; mishsmith ”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Women Who Make Our Novels
• Author credits: Grant M. Overton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 10:20:48

Catalogue topics

• Willa Cather
• Edna Ferber
• Edith Wharton
• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• eleanor porter
• mary roberts rinehart
• alice brown
• ellen glasgow

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 00 - Introduction — 4:45
2. 01 - Edith Wharton — 14:48
3. 02 - Alice Brown — 12:46
4. 03 - Ellen Glasgow — 33:11
5. 04 - Gertrude Atherton — 22:58
6. 05 - Mary Roberts Rinehart — 23:53
7. 06 - Kathleen Norris — 18:43
8. 07 - Margaret Deland — 17:46
9. 08 - Gene Stratton-Porter — 30:34
10. 09 - Eleanor H. Porter — 21:41
11. 10 - Kate Douglas Wiggin — 18:23
12. 11 - Mary Johnston — 39:14
13. 12 - Corra Harris — 20:13
14. 13 - Mary Austin — 25:33
15. 14 - Mary S. Watts — 44:13
16. 15 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman — 10:26
17. 16 - Anna Katharine Green — 17:28
18. 17 - Helen R. Martin — 17:53
19. 18 - Sophie Kerr — 18:29
20. 19 - Marjorie Benton Cooke — 12:03
21. 20 - Grace S. Richmond — 12:58
22. 21 - Willa Sibert Cather — 23:01
23. 22 - Clara Louise Burnham — 24:30
24. 23 - Demetra Vaka — 12:43

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