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)

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1 01 - Book 1, Chapter 1, Some Nineteenth-Century Heroines in the Eighteenth Century 24:02
2 02 - Book 1, Chapter 2, Frances Burney's Evelina 23:18
3 03 - Book 1, Chapter 3, Two Heroines of Maria Edgeworth's 26:43
4 04 - Book 1, Chapter 4, Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet 28:02
5 05 - Book 1, Chapter 5, Jane Austen's Anne Elliot and Catharine Morland 32:15
6 06 - Book 1, Chapter 6, Jane Austen's Emma Woodhouse, Marianne Dashwood, and Fanny Price 27:31
7 07 - Book 1, Chapter 7, Heroines of Miss Ferrier, Mrs. Opie, and Mrs. Radcliffe 23:53
8 08 - Book 1, Chapter 8, Scott's Rebecca and Rowena, and Lucy Ashton 23:59
9 09 - Book 1, Chapter 9, Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines 26:28
10 10 - Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's 25:30
11 11 - Book 1, Chapter 11, The Early Heroines of Dickens 20:53
12 12 - Book 1, Chapter 12, Heroines of Charles Dickens's Middle Period 25:08
13 13 - Book 1, Chapter 13, Dickens's Later Heroines 28:22
14 14 - Book 1, Chapter 14, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne 30:31
15 15 - Book 1, Chapter 15, Hawthorne's Zenobia and Priscilla and Miriam and Hilda 32:42
16 16 - Book 1, Chapter 16, Thackeray's Bad Heroines 26:43
17 17 - Book 1, Chapter 17, Thackeray's Good Heroines 22:50
18 18 - Book 1, Chapter 18, Thackeray's Ethel Newcome and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre 24:20
19 19 - Book 1, Chapter 19, The Two Catharines of Emily Bronte 24:09
20 20 - Book 2, Chapter 1, Charles Kingsley's Hypatia 27:36
21 21 - Book 2, Chapter 2, The Nature of Charles Reade's Heroines 30:30
22 22 - Book 2, Chapter 3, Variations of Reade's Type of Heroines 29:35
23 23 - Book 2, Chapter 4, George Eliot's Maggie Tulliver and Hetty Sorrel 42:17
24 24 - Book 2, Chapter 5, George Eliot's Rosamond Vincy and Dorothea Brooke 30:41
25 25 - Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster 31:45
26 26 - Book 2, Chapter 7, Anthony Trollope's Lily Dale 35:02
27 27 - Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly 24:02
28 28 - Book 2, Chapter 9, Anthony Trollope's Mrs. Proudie 35:33
29 29 - Book 2, Chapter 10, The Heroine of ''The Initials'' 24:16
30 30 - Book 2, Chapter 11, The Heroine of ''Kate Beaumont'' 23:09
31 31 - Book 2, Chapter 12, Mr. James's Daisy Miller 28:42
32 32 - Book 2, Chapter 13, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Heroines 37:22
33 33 - Book 2, Chapter 14, Mr. Thomas Hardy's Bathsheba Everdene and Paula Power 35:47
34 34 - Book 2, Chapter 15, William Black's Gertrude White 27:02
35 35 - Book 2, Chapter 16, Mr. Bret Harte's Miggles and Mr. T. B. Aldrich's Marjorie Daw 18:42
36 36 - Book 2, Chapter 17, Mr. G. W. Cable's Aurora and Clotilde Nancanoe 22:41
37 37 - Book 2, Chapter 18, Mr. H. B. Fuller's Jane Marshall and Miss M. E. Wilkins's Jane Field 27:29
38 38 - Book 2, Chapter 19, Mrs. Humphry Ward's Heroines 30:47