The Women Who Make Our Novels
Grant M. Overton
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
”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 |
Reviews
Thank You!
sarahm
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.