Maude by Christina Rossetti audiobook.

Genre: drama

Written as a 'tale for girls' and threaded with early poems, Christina Rossetti's Maude follows fifteen-year-old Maude Foster, a pale, clever, quietly intense London girl whose private writing-book is part diary, part sketchbook, and part confession. Praised for her verses yet unsettled by the attention they draw, Maude is pulled between the warmth and bustle of social life and an inward discipline shaped by religious devotion and relentless self-examination. When her mother brings her into the country to visit relatives for a birthday gathering, Maude steps into a world of lively cousins, youthful games, polite compliments, and the unspoken pressures of what a young woman should be: modest, domestic, agreeable. But Maude cannot stop measuring every thought and impulse, questioning whether her talents are vanity, whether her friendships are sincere, and whether she is truly worthy of the spiritual ideals she longs to live by. As days of pleasant activity give way to sharper moments of conscience, Maude must decide what kind of person she will become - and whether faith and feeling, duty and desire, can be held together without breaking her.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:28:07) Chapter 2

(00:55:00) Chapter 3

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