Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman: A Chawton House Audiobook
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2022-12-01

Wollstonecraft’s radical and troubling novel explores the oppression faced by women across the spectrum of social class. It opens in a private asylum, where the heroine, Maria, has been imprisoned by her libertine husband George Venables. Whilst incarcerated, Maria befriends her attendant, Jemima, who shares her tragic history. Maria also begins to fall in love with another inmate, Henry Darnford, and the pair bond over a shared love of reading. At the same time, Maria narrates her own tragic story for her infant daughter, who has been taken by her husband. These three intertwined tales build towards an ending that Wollstonecraft was unable to draft in full, her life cut short by the birth of her second daughter, Mary.

00:00 Intro music ('Permafrost' by Scott Buckley)
00:38 Preface (Jennie Batchelor)
05:43 Chapter 1 (Veena Kasbekar)
19:47 Chapter 2 (Claire Bellanti & Lawrence Evelyn)
41:25 Chapter 3 (Katie Morrowick & Kojo Koram)
59:31 Chapter 4 (Christine Stewart)
01:07:53 Chapter 5 (Jamilah Syal, Allison Yerges, Joanna Simpson & Sara Jane Downing )
01:49:59 Chapter 6 (Sharon Sibyll Gatt)
01:58:50 Chapter 7 (Arlan Hess & Rayna Rosenova)
02:26:10 Chapter 8 (Natalie-Nicole Bates)
02:36:04 Chapter 9 (Caroline Oswald & Rosemary Kelty)
02:56:05 Chapter 10 (Sheila Walker & Shirley Tung)
03:15:15 Chapter 11 (Katherine Lambe and Daria Walker)
03:32:53 Chapter 12 (Clio O’Sullivan & Virlana Shchuka)
03:51:37 Chapter 13 (Kim Simpson)
04:07:24 Chapter 14 (Katie Childs)
04:16:15 Appendix (Claudia Sandoni)
04:17:59 Chapter 15 (Claudia Sandoni)
04:23:55 Chapter 16 (Laura Rocklyn)
04:34:39 Chapter 17 (Laura Rocklyn)
04:46:28 Conclusion (Laura Rocklyn)

Music: 'Permafrost' by Scott Buckley: www.scottbuckley.com.au