
Classic Audiobook Collection Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill ~ Full Audiobook [family]
Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.
Genre: family
In Aunt Crete's Emancipation, Grace Livingston Hill introduces Miss Lucretia 'Crete' Ward, a gentle, capable maiden aunt who has spent years making herself indispensable in her sister Carrie's household. Crete cooks, cleans, mends, and manages quietly in the background, while Carrie and her spoiled daughter, Luella, take her sacrifices for granted and treat her more like unpaid help than family. The fragile peace of their small-town respectability is jolted by the announcement that a relative from the West, Donald Grant, is coming to visit. Carrie and Luella dread the possibility of a so-called backwoods cousin embarrassing them in polite society, and they scramble to protect Luella's social ambitions. Crete, however, dares to hope that the visitor might be the first person in years to see her kindness and worth. When Donald arrives, old assumptions are tested, loyalties shift, and Crete is offered something she has almost forgotten to want: a life with room for joy, confidence, and self-respect. Part Cinderella tale, part moral domestic drama, this story explores gratitude, pride, and the quiet courage it takes to step out of a lifetime of being overlooked.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:17:17) Chapter 02
(00:33:48) Chapter 03
(01:01:14) Chapter 04
(01:24:31) Chapter 05
(01:44:53) Chapter 06
(02:10:29) Chapter 07
(02:27:46) Chapter 08
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