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Superwomen

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(4,5 Sterne; 4 Bewertungen)

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

Bewertungen

heroic because of sexual conquests and

(5 Sterne)

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.