All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-spring-of-joy-a-little-book-of-healing-by-mary-webb/
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire countryside where she grew up and spent much of her life. At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease known as Graves' disease, a thyroid condition. She was often confined to her bed but came to believe that her love of and connection with nature helped in her healing.
"The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing" published in 1917 is a collection of essays which celebrate the natural world with poetic and descriptive brilliance. It was actually written some years earlier while she was recovering from her first bout of illness.
Her dedication for the book reads:
TO THE WEARY AND WOUNDED
IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE
THIS LITTLE BOOK IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED
( Noel Badrian)
- Text source (only read from this text!): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/webb/spring/spring.html
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin - Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): ( Mary Webb) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Webb
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 9
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
- Original publication date (if known): 1917
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Essays & Short Works
Keywords that describe the book: nature, countryside, health, natural world
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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Chapter [number] of The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"The Spring of Joy: by Mary Webb. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- "Chapter [number] of The Spring of Joy: by Mary Webb. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Only if applicable, say:
"[Chapter title]"
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [Chapter]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing, by Mary Webb. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
[*]Example filename springofjoy_##_webb_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. springofjoy_01_webb_128kb.mp3)
[*]Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Mary Webb
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
- Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin) - You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: lt - lynnet
- When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
- If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.
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