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Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor-manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles Dickens. As a journalist he worked for Punch magazine in which Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures were serialised, to be published in book form in 1846.
Job Caudle, the 'hero' of the book is a Victorian shopkeeper whose wife finds she can only talk to him without interruption in bed. Caudle, who outlives his wife, finds he can no longer sleep easily because of his memory of these 'lectures' and resolves to exorcise his wife's memory by recording the lectures, it seems with a view to future publication for the edification of others. Jerrold’s humour shines through this insight into Victorian middle class culture.
Summary by Martin Clifton
M4B audiobook of complete book
This audio is part of the collection: The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection
It also belongs to collections: Audio Books & Poetry; Community Audio
Artist/Composer: Jerrold, Douglas William
Date: 2006-10-09
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fiction; humor;
Creative Commons license: Public Domain
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| Introduction |
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| Lecture 1: Mr. Caudle has lent five pounds to a friend |
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| Lecture 2: Mr. Caudle has been at a tavern with a friend, and is |
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| Lecture 3: Mr. Caudle joins a club - |
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| Lecture 4: Mr. Caudle has been called from his bed to bail Mr. Prettyman from the watch-house |
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| Lecture 5: Mr. Caudle has remained downstairs till past one, with a friend |
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| Lecture 6: Mr. Caudle has lent an acquaintance the family umbrella |
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| Lecture 7: Mr. Caudle has ventured a remonstrance on his day's dinner: cold mutton and no pudding. - Mrs Caudle defends the cold shoulder. |
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| Lecture 8: Caudle has been made a mason - Mrs Caudle indignant and curious |
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| Lecture 9: Mr Caudle has been to Greenwich fair |
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| Lecture 10: On Mr. Caudle's shirt buttons |
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| Lecture 11: Mrs Caudle suggests the her dear mother should |
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| Lecture 12: Mr. Caudle having come home a little late, declares that henceforth |
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| Lecture 13: Mrs Caudle has been to see her dear mother - Caudle on the |
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| Lecture 14: Mrs Caudle thinks it |
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| Lecture 15: Mr. Caudle again stayed out late. Mrs Caudle, at first injured and violent, melts. |
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| Lecture 16: Baby is to be christened; Mrs Caudle canvasses the merits of probable godfathers |
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| Lecture 17: Caudle in the course of the day has ventured to question the economy of |
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| Lecture 18: Caudle, whilst walking with his wife, has been bowed to by a younger and even prettier woman than Mrs Caudle |
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| Lecture 19: Mrs Caudle thinks |
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| Lecture 21: Mr. Caudle has not acted |
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| Lecture 22: Caudle comes home in the evening, as Mrs Caudle has |
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| Lecture 23: Mrs Caudle |
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| Lecture 24: Mrs Caudle dwells on Caudle's |
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| Lecture 25: Mrs Caudle, wearied of Margate, has |
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| Lecture 26: Mrs Caudle's first night in France - |
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| Lecture 27: Mrs Caudle returns to her native land. |
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| Lecture 29: Mrs Caudle has returned home. The house (of course) |
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| Lecture 29: Mrs Caudle thinks |
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| Lecture 30: Mrs Caudle complains of the |
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| Lecture 31: Mrs Caudle complains very bitterly that Mr. Caudle has |
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| Lecture 32: Mrs Caudle discourses of maids-of-all-work and maids in general. Mr. Caudle |
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| Lecture 33: Mrs Caudle has discovered that Caudle is a railway director |
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| Lecture 34: Mrs Caudle, suspecting that Mr. Caudle has made his will, is only |
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| Lecture 35: Mrs Caudle |
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| Lecture the Last: Mrs Caudle has taken cold; the tragedy of thin shoes |
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| Postscript |
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