The Making of a Marchioness + The Shuttle (2 Unabridged Classic Romances)
Two Unabridged Edwardian Romances of Class, Marriage, Inheritance, and Female ResilienceBy Frances Hodgson Burnett
Length32h 16m
About this audiobook
This volume brings together two unabridged novels that display Frances Hodgson Burnett's command of romance, social observation, and moral transformation. In *The Making of a Marchioness*, Emily Fox-Seton's rise from modest circumstances into aristocratic marriage becomes a study of class, vulnerability, and the hard-won recovery of agency; its fairy-tale surface gradually darkens into psychological suspense before resolving through resilience and justice. *The Shuttle* expands the domestic romance into an Anglo-American saga, contrasting the vitality of the United States with the exhausted hierarchies of Edwardian England as marriage, inheritance, and national character become instruments of power. Together, the books occupy the late-Victorian and Edwardian tradition of the "woman's novel," combining melodramatic plotting with sharp commentary on gender and privilege. Burnett (1849–1924), born in Manchester and raised partly in Tennessee after her father's death, transformed personal hardship, transatlantic experience, and an acute awareness of social mobility into fiction of unusual emotional accessibility. Celebrated for children's classics such as *The Secret Garden* and *A Little Princess*, she also wrote extensively for adults, where her interest in hidden suffering, social performance, and ethical renewal assumes a more mature and sometimes darker form. These romances reflect her fascination with the possibilities—and dangers—of reinvention. Readers interested in historical romance, women's writing, and the social imagination of the period will find this pairing especially rewarding. The unabridged texts preserve Burnett's pacing, descriptive texture, and nuanced contrasts between privilege and precarity, making the volume suitable both for pleasurable reading and for study of class, gender, empire, and transatlantic literary culture.
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GenreRomance, Literary Classics
Length32 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Kenilworth (Annotated)
26Chapter Twenty three
2PART ONE
27Chapter Twenty four
3Chapter One
28CHAPTER I
4Chapter Two
29CHAPTER II
5Chapter Three
30CHAPTER III
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6Chapter Four
31CHAPTER IV
7Chapter Five
32CHAPTER V
8Chapter Six
33CHAPTER VI
9PART TWO
34CHAPTER VII
10Chapter Seven
35CHAPTER VIII
11Chapter Eight
36CHAPTER IX
12Chapter Nine
37CHAPTER X
13Chapter Ten
38CHAPTER XI
14Chapter Eleven
39CHAPTER XII
15Chapter Twelve
40CHAPTER XIII
16Chapter Thirteen
41CHAPTER XIV
17Chapter Fourteen
42CHAPTER XV
18Chapter Fifteen
43CHAPTER XVI
19Chapter Sixteen
44CHAPTER XVII
20Chapter Seventeen
45CHAPTER XVIII
21Chapter Eighteen
46CHAPTER XIX
22Chapter Nineteen
47CHAPTER XX
23Chapter Twenty
48CHAPTER XXI
24Chapter Twenty one
49CHAPTER XXII
25Chapter Twenty two
50CHAPTER XXIII
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