Deerbrook

Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)

A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.

Like the later and more famous novel Middlemarch, Deerbrook describes the life of country people in a fictional English town. The Grey family live in one of the loveliest houses in Deerbrook, but a change in their lives is going to take place... The Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, orphaned distant cousins of Mr. Grey. Like in Jane Austen's novels, we see how the sisters are trying to advance themselves. In Victorian England, the chief way for women to "advance themselves" is to marry well. But will they succeed? And if they succeed, will they be happy?(Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia)

Genre(s): General Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 01 - An Event. Arielle Lipshaw
00:24:35
Play 02 02 - Moonlight of Townsfolk. Elli
00:08:41
Play 03 03 - Making Acquaintance. Elli
00:15:32
Play 04 04 - Morning Calls. Elli
00:16:11
Play 05 05 - The Meadows. (Part 1) Chris Caron
00:27:48
Play 06 06 - The Meadows. (Part 2) Christine Blachford
00:22:49
Play 07 07 - The School-Room. garyday
00:36:35
Play 08 08 - Family Confidence. garyday
00:15:21
Play 09 09 - Family Correspondence Linda Andrus
00:34:29
Play 10 10 - Child’s Play. Linda Andrus
00:20:09
Play 11 11 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 1) Rosie
00:20:56
Play 12 12 - A Party of Pleasure. (Part 2) Rosie
00:19:59
Play 13 13 - Mediation. Chris Caron
00:27:34
Play 14 14 - A Turn in the Shrubbery. Linda Andrus
00:28:37
Play 15 15 - Sophia in the Village. Linda Andrus
00:19:02
Play 16 16 - Preparing for Home. Linda Andrus
00:37:59
Play 17 17 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 1) Chris Caron
00:24:21
Play 18 18 - Maria and Margaret. (Part 2) Chris Caron
00:20:07
Play 19 19 - Home. garyday
00:24:22
Play 20 20 - First Hospitality. Chris Caron
00:25:33
Play 21 21 - Grandmamma in Retreat. Chris Caron
00:21:10
Play 22 22 - Home at "The Hopes'." Chris Caron
00:42:55
Play 23 23 - Enderby News. Chris Caron
00:19:33
Play 24 24 - Consciousness to the Unconscious. Chris Caron
00:27:55
Play 25 25 - The Meadows in Winter. Chris Caron
00:22:39
Play 26 26 - Moods of the Mind. Linda Andrus
00:19:26
Play 27 27 - Warnings. Linda Andrus
00:32:56
Play 28 28 - Long Walks. Chris Caron
00:16:36
Play 29 29 - Disclosures. Chris Caron
00:38:04
Play 30 30 - A Morning in March. Chris Caron
00:30:34
Play 31 31 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 1) Linda Andrus
00:25:38
Play 32 32 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 2) Linda Andrus
00:21:40
Play 33 33 - Deerbrook Commotions. (Part 3) Linda Andrus
00:25:55
Play 34 34 - Coming to an Understanding. Chris Caron
00:12:01
Play 35 35 - Condolence. Chris Caron
00:30:36
Play 36 36 - Keeping Sunday. Chris Caron
00:23:11
Play 37 37 - Going to Rest. Chris Caron
00:15:53
Play 38 38 - Moving Onward. Chris Caron
00:26:41
Play 39 39 - Old and Young. Chris Caron
00:26:33
Play 40 40 - Boating. (Part 1) garyday
00:31:02
Play 41 41 - Boating. (Part 2) garyday
00:33:03
Play 42 42 - The Next Day. (Part 1) garyday
00:24:48
Play 43 43 - The Next Day. (Part 2) garyday
00:23:16
Play 44 44 - The Conqueror. Chris Caron
00:12:31
Play 45 45 - The Victims. Chris Caron
00:36:43
Play 46 46 - The Long Nights. (Part 1) Chris Caron
00:19:20
Play 47 47 - The Long Nights. (Part 2) Chris Caron
00:20:55
Play 48 48 - Lightsome Days. (Part 1) garyday
00:23:46
Play 49 49 - Lightsome Days. (Part 2) garyday
00:20:08
Play 50 50 - Deerbrook in Shadow. Chris Caron
00:35:47
Play 51 51 - Church-Going. garyday
00:15:46
Play 52 52 - Working Round. Chris Caron
00:26:17
Play 53 53 - Late Religion. garyday
00:15:52
Play 54 54 - Rest of the Placable. garyday
00:15:39
Play 55 55 - Deerbrook in Sunshine. garyday
00:22:00