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A Lady of Quality

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924)

Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included. (Summary by Linda Andrus)

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Romance

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	00 - Preface	Linda Andrus	00:01:01
Play 01	01 - Chapter I -- The twenty-fourth day of November 1690	Linda Andrus	00:17:16
Play 02	02 - Chapter II -- In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring	Linda Andrus	00:22:36
Play 03	03 - Chapter III -- Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast	Linda Andrus	00:19:34
Play 04	04 - Chapter IV -- Lord Twemlow's chaplain visits his patron's kinsman, and Mistress Clorinda shines on her birthday night	Linda Andrus	00:26:44
Play 05	05 - Chapter V -- 'Not I,' said she. 'There thou mayst trust me. I would not be found out.'	Linda Andrus	00:22:52
Play 06	06 - ChapterVI -- Relating how Mistress Anne discovered a miniature	Linda Andrus	00:26:01
Play 07	07 - Chapter VII -- 'Twas the face of Sir John Oxon the moon shone upon	Linda Andrus	00:20:50
Play 08	08 - Chapter VIII -- Two meet in the deserted rose garden, and the old Earl of Dunstanwolde is made a happy man	Linda Andrus	00:34:06
Play 09	09 -Chapter IX -- 'I give to him the thing he craves with all his soul -- myself'	Linda Andrus	00:15:25
Play 10	10 - Chapter X -- 'Yes -- I have marked him'	Linda Andrus	00:18:31
Play 11	11 - Chapter XI -- Wherein a noble life comes to an end	Linda Andrus	00:32:18
Play 12	12 - Chapter XII -- Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of his lady's widowhood, and of her return to town	Linda Andrus	00:15:41
Play 13	13 - Chapter XIII -- Wherein a deadly war begins	Linda Andrus	00:29:00
Play 14	14 - Chapter XIV -- Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of his Grace of Osmonde from France	Linda Andrus	00:33:47
Play 15	15 - Chapter XV -- In which Sir John Oxon finds again a trophy he had lost	Linda Andrus	00:28:03
Play 16	16 - Chapter XVI -- Dealing with that which was done in the Panelled Parlour	Linda Andrus	00:30:23
Play 17	17 - Chapter XVII -- Wherein his Grace of Osmonde's courier arrives from France	Linda Andrus	00:29:59
Play 18	18 - Chapter XVIII -- My Lady Dunstanwolde sits late alone and writes	Linda Andrus	00:12:49
Play 19	19 - Chapter XIX -- A piteous story is told, and the old cellars walled in	Linda Andrus	00:27:29
Play 20	20 - Chapter XX -- A noble marriage	Linda Andrus	00:18:48
Play 21	21 - Chapter XXI -- An heir is born	Linda Andrus	00:27:46
Play 22	22 - Chapter XXII -- Mother Anne	Linda Andrus	00:11:37
Play 23	23 - Chapter XXIII -- 'In One who will do justice, and demands that it shall be done to each thing He has made, by each who bears His image'	Linda Andrus	00:20:47
Play 24	24 - Chapter XXIV -- The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed	Linda Andrus	00:31:52

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