Heroines of Fiction


Read by Jim Locke

This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the time. (Summary by Jim Locke) (17 hr 40 min)

Chapters

Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century 24:02 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina 23:18 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's 26:43 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet 28:02 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland 32:15 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny P… 27:31 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe 23:53 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton 23:59 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines 26:28 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's 25:30 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens 20:53 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period 25:08 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines 28:22 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne 30:31 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda 32:42 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines 26:43 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines 22:50 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre 24:20 Read by Jim Locke
Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte 24:09 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia 27:36 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines 30:30 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines 29:35 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel 42:17 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke 30:41 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster 31:45 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale 35:02 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly 24:02 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie 35:33 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials'' 24:16 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont'' 23:09 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller 28:42 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines 37:22 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power 35:47 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White 27:02 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie D… 18:42 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe 22:41 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's J… 27:29 Read by Jim Locke
Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines 30:47 Read by Jim Locke