What America Owes to Women: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What America Owes to Women, credited to Lydia Hoyt Farmer, 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 What America Owes to Women by Lydia Hoyt Farmer. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman Past and Present; not in the way of boastful assertions, nor by pleading for her rights which have already been awarded her; but by statements of her achievements in the lines of literature, philanthropy, church work, education, science, industry, medicine, business, art, music, invention, home life, domestic science, etc., that hereby the subtle, yet powerful influence of woman in the development of this great country may be manifested and strengthened. Thus there shall be constructed a fitting memorial of the American Woman of the Past, and inspiring model for the American Woman of the Future. We have endeavored to make this book a valuable Souvenir of the Columbian Exposition. These portraits have been sketched by many pens, for no one writer could have accomplished the object desired. - Summary by Excerpt from Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: What America Owes to Women
• Author credits: Lydia Hoyt Farmer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 52
• Listed recording duration: 19:35:19

Catalogue topics

• women
• science
• art
• music
• education
• medicine
• industry
• home life

Opening tracks: first 24 of 52

1. 00 - Dedication, Preface and Introduction — 9:57
2. 01 - Some Women in America History: What America owes to Isabella of Castile and to Madame LaFayette by Lydia Hoyt Farmer — 29:08
3. 02 - Columbus at Santa Fe by Virginia P. Townsend — 11:44
4. 03 - The Women of Plymouth Colony by Jane G. Austin — 8:20
5. 04 - The Lady Arbella by Lucy Larcom — 4:00
6. 05 - Puritan Womanhood: A Power in America by Linda T. Guilford — 16:40
7. 06 - The Women of the American Revolution by Mrs. Elroy M. Avery — 18:09
8. 07 - Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant — 4:20
9. 08 - Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 1 — 54:17
10. 09 - Wives of Presidents, Editorial, Part 2 — 43:36
11. 10 - Women in the Home by the Editor and Wives and Daughters in the Home by Agnes Bailey Ormsbee — 20:05
12. 11 - Domestic Science in American Homes, Editorial — 24:44
13. 12 - Clergymen's Wives by Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher — 3:27
14. 13 - The Wives of Army Officers by Jessie Benton Fremont — 9:32
15. 14 - The American Salon, Editorial — 23:21
16. 15 - Social Leaders of Washington by Leonora B. Halsted — 29:56
17. 16 - The Southern Woman, Past and Present by Mrs. Frank Leslie — 10:11
18. 17 - Physical Culture of American Women by Annie Jenness Miller — 6:51
19. 18 - The American Girl, Past and Present, Editorial — 47:31
20. 19 - Every-day Women by Lucy M. Spelman and Farmers' Wives and Daughters by Jennie E. Hooker — 14:29
21. 20 - Women In Literature: Women in Literature and Poetry, Editorial — 32:52
22. 21 - Women Fiction Writers of America by Ellen Olney Kirk — 31:25
23. 22 - Women Journalists in America by Susan E. Dickinson — 18:58
24. 23 - Women in Education and Science, Editorial — 19:10

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