Sources & browser storage

Courses come from MIT OpenCourseWare, The Open University (OpenLearn) and TU Delft OpenCourseWare; each course page credits its source and license. Books in the reader come from Project Gutenberg, audiobooks from LibriVox.

RedLectern is independent of MIT, The Open University and TU Delft and is not endorsed by them. Self-study only: no grades, certificates, or credit.

Progress and notes are saved in this browser. Export a backup; clearing browser data can remove them. YouTube embeds may process usage data.

Campaigns of Curiosity: Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in London

Elizabeth L. Banks

Read by TriciaG · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

Open a chapter to play its MP3 recording.

Preface (15:04)
In Cap and Apron: "Liberty" and "Independence" (14:38)
In Cap and Apron: Seeking a Situation (22:53)
In Cap and Apron: "Elizabeth Barrows," Housemaid (18:49)
In Cap and Apron: Rough Places "Smoothed Over" (21:51)
In Cap and Apron: Without a "Character" (24:37)
In Cap and Apron: Parlourmaid to Mrs. Brownlow (23:01)
In Cap and Apron: My Last Days in Service (21:40)
In Cap and Apron: The Merits of Domestic Service (21:43)
The "Almighty Dollar" in London Society: Advertising for a Chaperon (9:39)
The "Almighty Dollar": Offers of Marriage (9:25)
The "Almighty Dollar": What It would Cost (8:56)
The "Almighty Dollar": Interesting Antecedents (6:00)
The Price of a Pedigree (24:41)
Sweeping a Crossing (16:27)
A Day with the Flower-Girls (22:00)
Among the Laundry-Girls: Why and How I Became One of Them (22:14)
Among the Laundry-Girls: At Work in a "Sanitary Laundry" (17:13)
Among the Laundry-Girls: A Contest with Flat-Irons (17:58)
Among the Laundry-Girls: The Day of My Resignation (19:06)
Among the Laundry-Girls: "Soap-Suds Island" and the East-End (20:45)