{"product_id":"the-neglected-authors-english-women-audiobook","title":"The Neglected Authors - English Women (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCelebrated in their time, forgotten in ours\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Lisa Bowerman, Ghizela Rowe, Amanda Weston(Unabridged: 14:18mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Aphra Behn, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, D K Broster, Mary Butts \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThroughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eWhilst male authors were the overwhelming majority of beneficiaries in having their work printed time was their constant enemy. Your work could be immensely talented but if it was not to lure money into the coffers by gaining an audience of readers then your career would be one of pleasing yourself and was soon forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eBut the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e01 - The Neglected Authors - English Women - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e02 - The Unfortunate Bride or The Blind Lady a Beauty by Aphra Behn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e03 - The Bishop of Hell by Marjorie Bowen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e04 - The Face in the Glass by Mary Elizabeth Braddon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e05 - Clairvoyance by D K Broster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e06 - With \u0026amp; Without Buttons by Mary Butts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e07 - Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e08 - The Last House in C Street by Mrs Craik\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e09 - The Death Mask by Ella D'Arcy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - They Don't Wear Labels by E M Delafield\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - In the Séance Room by Lettice Galbraith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - The Voice of God by Winifred Holtby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e13 - The Operation by Violet Hunt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e14 - The Indian Orphan. A Tale by Letitia Elizabeth Landon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e15 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e16 - Diary of a Plain Girl by Amy Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e17 - Passed by Charlotte Mew\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e18 - Betty Brown, the St Giles Orange Girl by Hannah More\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e19 - Lucy Wren by Ada Radford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e20 - Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e21 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e22 - Blessed Are the Meek by Mary Webb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e23 - The Oculist by Catherine Wells\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e24 - Inquest by Leonara Wodehouse\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43438851522638,"sku":"AB-26705","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836826705.jpg?v=1771418084","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/products\/the-neglected-authors-english-women-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}