Bladys of the Stewponey
Sabine Baring-Gould
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century: http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Reminder-of-the-heyday-of-the-old-Stewponey-2.htm - the present reader having stopped there for a drink and a meal many times.
The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and buried treasure - is of course wholly fiction. (Introduction by AJM)
Author - Sabine Baring-Gould.
Narrator - LibriVox Community.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a midlands beauty spot, and the UK National Trust own and open one of the rock-dwellings mentioned. The 'Stewponey' too was an inn until a year or two into the twenty-first century: http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Reminder-of-the-heyday-of-the-old-Stewponey-2.htm - the present reader having stopped there for a drink and a meal many times. The story, whether you call it a romance, a historical novel or a horror story - comprising as it does a young woman being offered as a prize in a bowling match, a wife-burning, highwaymen and buried treasure - is of course wholly fiction. (Introduction by AJM) Author - Sabine Baring-Gould. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:16:28
Chapter 2
Duration:00:16:18
Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
Duration:00:15:00
Chapter 7
Duration:00:15:32
Chapter 8
Duration:00:17:58
Chapter 9
Duration:00:15:04
Chapter 10
Duration:00:15:49
Chapter 11
Duration:00:14:39
Chapter 12
Duration:00:13:36
Chapter 13
Duration:00:17:33
Chapter 14
Duration:00:15:11
Chapter 15
Duration:00:18:38
Chapter 16
Duration:00:12:51
Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
Duration:00:13:05
Chapter 19
Duration:00:12:49
Chapter 20
Duration:00:15:39
Chapter 21
Duration:00:14:45
Chapter 22
Duration:00:13:56
Chapter 23
Duration:00:19:16
Chapter 24
Duration:00:16:21
Chapter 25
Duration:00:11:02
Chapter 26
Duration:00:18:28
Chapter 27
Duration:00:07:35