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