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Catalog date:
2015-10-27
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Larry Wilson
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Some Eminent Women of our Times

Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 - 1929)

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Queen Victoria and Queen Louisa of Prussia. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Pamela Nagami
 00:03:21
Play 01 Elizabeth Fry Rob Marland
 00:19:58
Play 02 Mary Carpenter Margaret Espaillat
 00:21:19
Play 03 Caroline Herschel Availle
 00:25:47
Play 04 Sarah Martin Maria Kasper
 00:13:53
Play 05 Mary Somerville Availle
 00:24:14
Play 06 Queen Victoria Kathleen Moore
 00:24:20
Play 07 Harriet Martineau Pamela Nagami
 00:26:52
Play 08 Florence Nightingale Maria Kasper
 00:21:25
Play 09 Mary Lamb Gnomesb
 00:28:37
Play 10 Agnes Elizabeth Jones Michele Eaton
 00:18:30
Play 11 Charlotte and Emily Brontë BettyB
 00:26:55
Play 12 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Larry Wilson
 00:13:48
Play 13 Lady Sale and her Fellow-Hostages in Afghanistan Charbelí Ramos Chávez
 00:28:23
Play 14 Elizabeth Gilbert Maria Kasper
 00:16:36
Play 15 Jane Austen Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
 00:15:43
Play 16 Maria Edgeworth Michele Fry
 00:39:39
Play 17 Queen Louisa of Prussia BettyB
 00:31:55
Play 18 Dorothy Wordsworth Gnomesb
 00:22:49
Play 19 Sister Dora Maria Kasper
 00:27:38
Play 20 Mrs. Barbauld BettyB
 00:15:32
Play 21 Joanna Baillie Mark
 00:09:44
Play 22 Hannah More Gnomesb
 00:30:28
Play 23 Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott Maria Kasper
 00:19:39