Divers Women by Pansy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In Divers Women, beloved Christian novelist Isabella 'Pansy' Alden, joined by Mrs. C. M. Livingston, gathers a rich set of late-19th-century stories that follow women whose everyday choices become spiritual turning points. In 'Sunday Fractures,' a polished, prosperous congregation discovers how easily pride, gossip, and social ambition can wound a church and its weary pastor's family. At home, tensions flare in kitchens and parlors: spirited Margaret faces a sharp-tongued, overstrained mother in 'New Nerves,' while newly married Ruey Thorne learns that love can be tested by something as small as a plate of buckwheat cakes. Elsewhere, the young mother Faith Vincent refuses to accept a summer of separation and quietly attempts a daring plan to build a healthier home for her baby and husband. The fashionable Mrs. Williams, certain she has no time for 'foreign missions,' is confronted by unsettling questions about comfort, duty, and compassion. And when gentle Mrs. Kensett is left vulnerable after her husband's death, family loyalties reveal their true weight. By turns satirical, tender, and warmly instructive, these intertwined portraits explore faith lived out in family life, community expectations, and the hard work of becoming more charitable and courageous.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:34) Chapter 02

(00:31:43) Chapter 03

(00:44:52) Chapter 04

(00:59:31) Chapter 05

(01:32:49) Chapter 06

(02:03:33) Chapter 07

(02:29:45) Chapter 08

(02:57:43) Chapter 09

(03:18:12) Chapter 10

(03:33:54) Chapter 11

(03:55:59) Chapter 12

(04:30:12) Chapter 13

(05:02:15) Chapter 14

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