Some Famous Women

About this film

LibriVox recording of Some Famous Women by Louise Creighton. Read in English by Pamela Nagami Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother of seven children. In this short book, Creighton gives us chapters on such well-known women as Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria. But we also learn about St. Hilda, the 7th century royal princess who became an influential abbess, the prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, and Isabella Bird, who thrilled Victorian readers with accounts of her lone travels on horseback to remote and perilous places. - Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (130MB)

Directors & creators

Louise Creighton

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Florence Nightingale; Joan of Arc; Queen Victoria; Crimean War; missionaries; st. hilda; fair maid of kent; lady rachel russell; mary somerville; julia selena inglis; isabella bird; sister dora

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