Superwomen
Albert Payson Terhune
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In this 1916 work, Albert Payson Terhune introduces twelve immensely influential women, whose actions influenced world history. Terhune chooses well-known figures whose stories are as much myth as history, like Cleopatra and Helen of Troy, artists such as George Sand, and a number of ladies whose names are not so well-known today, because their work was not immediately visible to the uninitiated. All stories will be interested to the modern feminist, and each reader and listener should be able to find a personal heroine among these select twelve. - Summary by Carolin (7 hr 55 min)
Chapters
Foreword | 2:21 | Read by BettyB |
Lola Montez, the Dancer who kicked over a Throne | 29:05 | Read by aniroo |
Ninon de L'Enclos, premiere Siren of two Centuries | 36:24 | Read by Ciufi Galeazzi |
Peg Woffington, Irish Heart Conjurer | 32:31 | Read by Ciufi Galeazzi |
Helen of Troy, Model for all the Sirens of the Centuries | 47:51 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Madame Jumel, New York's first official Heart Breaker | 45:48 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Adrienne Lecouvreur, the 'Actress Heart Queen' | 37:17 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Cleopatra, 'the Serpent of old Nile' | 41:24 | Read by Linda Johnson |
George Sand, the hopelessly ugly Siren | 35:21 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Madame du Barry, the Seven-Million-Dollar Siren | 44:17 | Read by BettyB |
'The most gorgeous Lady Blessington' | 45:31 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Madame Recamier, the frozen-hearted Angel | 37:16 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Lady Hamilton, Patron Saint of Dime-Novel Heroines | 40:07 | Read by Linda Johnson |
Reviews
heroic because of sexual conquests and
Clara DeBruycker
writing ability which emphasis dates the book and limits the portrayal of women's influence to the bedroom and drawing room.portrayel of superheroine scientists, musicians, mathematicians is missing. book remains very interesting. research seems sound and includes human, entertaining and numerous anecdotes. worth listening to and mostly well read although pace sometimes ponderous.