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The Women Who Make Our Novels

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(4,5 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective he offers a short biographical sketch “of all the living American women novelists whose writing, by the customary standards, is artistically fine . . . [or] whose writing has attained a wide popularity.” This book was published in 1918. (Summary taken from the Introduction by MaryAnn) (10 hr 20 min)

Chapters

00 - Introduction

4:45

Read by MaryAnn

01 - Edith Wharton

14:48

Read by Amanda Friday

02 - Alice Brown

12:46

Read by Amanda Friday

03 - Ellen Glasgow

33:11

Read by Michele Eaton

04 - Gertrude Atherton

22:58

Read by Lynne T

05 - Mary Roberts Rinehart

23:53

Read by MaryAnn

06 - Kathleen Norris

18:43

Read by Vanessa Garcia

07 - Margaret Deland

17:46

Read by Mike Pelton

08 - Gene Stratton-Porter

30:34

Read by Daryl Wor

09 - Eleanor H. Porter

21:41

Read by Lynne T

10 - Kate Douglas Wiggin

18:23

Read by TriciaG

11 - Mary Johnston

39:14

Read by Mike Pelton

12 - Corra Harris

20:13

Read by Mike Pelton

13 - Mary Austin

25:33

Read by Lynne Carroll

14 - Mary S. Watts

44:13

Read by Lynne Carroll

15 - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

10:26

Read by Vanessa Garcia

16 - Anna Katharine Green

17:28

Read by Michele Eaton

17 - Helen R. Martin

17:53

Read by MaryAnn

18 - Sophie Kerr

18:29

Read by Emily Maynard

19 - Marjorie Benton Cooke

12:03

Read by Daryl Wor

20 - Grace S. Richmond

12:58

Read by Emily Maynard

21 - Willa Sibert Cather

23:01

Read by TriciaG

22 - Clara Louise Burnham

24:30

Read by Jennifer Dorr

23 - Demetra Vaka

12:43

Read by MaryAnn

24 - Edna Ferber

9:06

Read by TriciaG

25 - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

11:57

Read by Bellona Times

26 - Amelia E. Barr

12:50

Read by Michele Eaton

27 - Alice Hegan Rice

11:42

Read by doonaboon

28 - Alice Duer Miller

10:44

Read by mishsmith

29 - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

12:59

Read by MaryAnn

30 - Harriet T. Comstock

11:42

Read by Jennifer Dorr

31 - Honore Willsie

23:40

Read by MaryAnn

32 - Frances Hodgson Burnett

17:56

Read by Amanda Friday

Bewertungen

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(4 Sterne)

This book kept me company while doing my holiday baking. I have listened to it twice in a quest to discover new authors and books for my listening pleasure. The opening years of the Twentieth Century certainly produced a diverse selection of American women authors. While Edna Ferber related the challenges of ordinary working women, Edith Wharton... I don't know what to say about her books. They don't make me laugh or cry. They seem as un-living as portraits, portraits the hold your attention. Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anna Katharine Green entertained with memorable mysteries. They could make me smile. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gene Stratton-Porter, Eleanor H. Porter and Kate Douglas Wiggin gave the world memorable young characters. As a child, The Secret Garden and Little Princess were my absolute favorite books. I love them still and cannot read either with a tear or two. I have rarely been to Indiana, but have fallen in love with Stratton-Porter's Limberlost. These are the authors I knew best before listening to this book. Many of their novels are available for download. I am grateful for these author sketches. They introduced me to many more authors whose books I desire to read.