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“I don’t mean to criticize the reader of this very audiobook-worthy selection of eighteenth-century etiquette, but as a famously patriarchal, sexist text by a genteel nobleman to his (illegitimate?) son, I wish the reader were male. This is not a critique I would make for many texts, for I appreciate a diversity of readers generally. I am glad the reader deems this text important enough to contribute to the Librivox catalog, but wish the voice matched the content to generate the complete theatrical effect one gets in reading the textual version of Stanhope’s Letters to His Son. It would only be then that one could imagine both their appeal to young men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as, for instance, Abigail Adams’ historic disgust at their entitled and exploitive nature after she read them.”
sbaudiophile via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/10/15
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