All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-fortune-hunter-a-novel-of-new-york-society-by-anna-cora-mowatt-ritchie/
Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules dictated that the title of the work, that the setting had to be New York, and that the text had to be completed within six months. So, recycling a few characters from short stories written under the pen name “Helen Berkeley,” Mowatt quickly created a tale that started with two fashionable fellows in search of wealthy wives -- Brainard and Ellery. They, in turn, are pursued by the inexorable debt collector, Mr. Badger. Then the reader is introduced to the objects of the bachelors’ chase, the Clinton sisters. The elder sister, Rachel, has become so disgusted with this cynical game of fortune hunting that she has decided to renounce her claim to her portion of her father’s fortune to escape the mendacity of suitors like Brainard and Ellery. Ester, the melodramatic, Byron-quoting, younger sister (who is now trying to go by the name Estelle) is perfectly happy to play the game, as long as it is by the rules she sets. Love is no game to Miss Arria Walton, penniless orphan and best friend of the sisters, who is desperately in love with young Dr. Edgar Chadwick. Rapid twists and turns of fate and sudden reversals of fortune characterize the plot of this comic melodrama that is part Jane Austen, part Charles Dickens, but establishes a delightful Victorian Americana flavoring all of its own. ( Kelly S. Taylor)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044080924996&view=1up&seq=5
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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BC Admin - Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Anna Cora Mowatt) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Cora_Mowatt
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 20
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: No
- Original publication date (if known):
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Kelly S. Taylor Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?: www.tla.wapshotpress.org
Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published 1800 -1900
Keywords that describe the book: comedy, romance, melodrama
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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 Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society. 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 Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society, by Anna Cora Mowatt. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
- "Chapter [number] of The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society by Anna Cora Mowatt. 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 Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society, by Anna Cora Mowatt. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
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