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Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69440Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form a one-sided correspondence. Each of these is an apparent response to a question that a young woman who is about to enter adult society might pose to a parent, in this case her father. The fictional daughter in Letters to a Daughter is named ‘Alexa’. The author, Hubert Bland, a columnist and political activist, dedicated the book to his daughter, Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland.
While married to the author Edith Nesbit, Mr. Bland had a lifelong extramarital relationship with Alice Hoatson, the birth mother of Rosamund - Edith, Alice and Hubert lived together ‘openly’. Rosamund wrote The Man in the Stone House, a novel about a young woman’s relationship with her parents and the children’s book Moo Cow Tales; she also wrote the children's book Cat Tales with her adoptive mother, Edith Nesbit. (Summary by Brian Fullen)
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: Epistolary Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: edwardian era, parental guidance, cultural norms
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Section # of Letters to a Daughter. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Letters to a Daughter, by Hubert Bland. Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of section #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Letters to a Daughter, by Hubert Bland."
Filename: letterstoadaughter_##_bland_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. letterstoadaughter_01_bland_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: mightyfelix
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