Some Eminent Women of our Times


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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 (8 hr 47 min)

Chapters

Preface 3:21 Read by Pamela Nagami
Elizabeth Fry 19:58 Read by Rob Marland
Mary Carpenter 21:19 Read by Margaret Espaillat
Caroline Herschel 25:47 Read by Availle
Sarah Martin 13:53 Read by Maria Kasper
Mary Somerville 24:14 Read by Availle
Queen Victoria 24:20 Read by Kathleen Moore
Harriet Martineau 26:52 Read by Pamela Nagami
Florence Nightingale 21:25 Read by Maria Kasper
Mary Lamb 28:37 Read by Gnomesb
Agnes Elizabeth Jones 18:30 Read by Michele Eaton
Charlotte and Emily Brontë 26:55 Read by BettyB
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 13:48 Read by Larry Wilson
Lady Sale and her Fellow-Hostages in Afghanistan 28:23 Read by Charbelí Ramos Chávez
Elizabeth Gilbert 16:36 Read by Maria Kasper
Jane Austen 15:43 Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)
Maria Edgeworth 39:39 Read by Michele Fry
Queen Louisa of Prussia 31:55 Read by BettyB
Dorothy Wordsworth 22:49 Read by Gnomesb
Sister Dora 27:38 Read by Maria Kasper
Mrs. Barbauld 15:32 Read by BettyB
Joanna Baillie 9:44 Read by Mark
Hannah More 30:28 Read by Gnomesb
Prudence Crandall and Lucretia Mott 19:39 Read by Maria Kasper