The Three Rulers

About this film

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Three Rulers by Adelaide Anne Procter. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27, 2015. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Caitlin Buckley; Christie Crews; David Lawrence; Newgatenovelist; Greg Giordano; Ian King; Joe Brenneman; J. McDougall; Jim McNamara; Lee Ann Howlett; Livia F.; Leonard Wilson; Maria Kasper and SkyAlbatross. Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work, and died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Procter's literary career began when she was a teenager; her poems were primarily published in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round and later published in book form. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism appear to have strongly influenced her poetry, which deals most commonly with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Her poetry went through numerous editions in the 19th century; Coventry Patm…

Directors & creators

Adelaide Anne Procter

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;librivox; poetry; kings; rulers

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