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| Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie | 26 Nov 2024 | 00:38:42 | |
Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed suit nearly a decade later with her own children’s book — one that alludes to the “Alice” tale while also offering a more clear-eyed view of girls’ duties, even in topsy-turvy dream worlds. Ayana Christie, Chief Product Officer of Bond & Grace, joins us for a discussion this week on Rossetti’s 1874 work Speaking Likenesses and helps us draw comparisons with Carroll’s seminal tale. Mentioned in this episode: Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti Bond & Grace edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Bond & Grace edtiion of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Bond & Grace edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti The Rosetti family photographic portrait by Lewis Carroll Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life by Jan Marsh Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson) The real-life Alice in Wonderland The Princess Bride film “Be Our Guest” number from Beauty & the Beast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Hiatus Replay: Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung | 10 Jan 2023 | 00:33:50 | |
WE'RE BACK WITH A NEW EPISODE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023. In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim have a conversation about Sui Sin Far and her wonderful short story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), with journalist and author Victoria Namkung, who has her Master’s Degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. Sui Sin Far, the pen name of Edith Maude Eaton, was a journalist and writer of Chinese and British descent who moved to the U.S. and began writing articles about what it was like to live as a Chinese woman in a white America. Learn more about Eaton and find out why, if you haven’t already, you should find a spot on your bookshelf for the still-very-relevant Mrs. Spring Fragrance.
These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung The Things We Tell Ourselves by Victoria Namkung Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare The Original Fairytales of The Brothers Grimm A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton) Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eton Nisei’s Daughter by Monica Sone Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Hiatus Replay: Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux | 03 Jan 2023 | 00:47:37 | |
WE'RE BACK WITH A NEW EPISODE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023. In this episode, Kim and Amy have a conversation about Constance Fenimore Woolson’s novel Anne (1880) with professor and author Anne Boyd Rioux, whose biography of Woolson was named one of 2016’s ten best books of the year by The Chicago Tribune. Woolson, a close friend of Henry James, is remembered as a salacious footnote in his story, yet upon its publication, her novel Anne sold ten times as many copies as James’s Portrait of a Lady. Learn more about Woolson’s fascinating life, and find out what makes her novel one we know you’ll want to read too. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Victorian Parlour Games | 27 Dec 2022 | 00:15:56 | |
The Victorian era has been called the golden age of parlour games, and we share some interesting ones in this week’s mini episode. Let us know if you try any of them out by emailing info@lostladiesoflit.com or sharing on social @lostladiesoflit. We wish you the happiest of New Years! For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season | 20 Dec 2022 | 00:12:24 | |
Join us for a chat about the fantastic new book from the British Library Women Writers Series, Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season. The stories in this collection run the gamut of what the holiday season encompasses from a woman's perspective and includes stories by past Lost Ladies authors E.M. Delafield and Stella Gibbons. We’ll share some of our favorites. Happy Holidays! Discussed in this episode: British Library Women Writers Series Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George | 13 Dec 2022 | 00:39:07 | |
Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is the only one of its kind to feature a racially-conscious Black heroine at its center. Dr. Leigh-Michil George, a lecturer in the English Department at Geffen Academy at UCLA, joins us to discuss the novel and its historical importance as well as its influence on Regency-era television adaptations of Sanditon and Bridgerton. Discussed in this episode: The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press) Sanditon (PBS) Bridgerton (Netflix) Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen “Black People in Britain During the Regency” (National Portrait Gallery) “The Abolition of Slavery in Britain” (Historic UK) Olivia Carpenter (University of York) For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Our Covid Binges | 06 Dec 2022 | 00:22:43 | |
We managed to contract our first cases of Covid the very same week. If there’s one silver lining, it was getting to catch up on the sort of media we always wanted to binge but never had the time. So for this week’s mini episode, we’ll fill you in on the best of our respective binges. Discussed in this episode: A Woman of Colour by Anonymous Two Thousand-Million Man Power by Gertrude Trevelyan The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Dorothy Richardson — Dawn’s Left Hand with Scott McCracken and Brad Bigelow | 29 Nov 2022 | 00:45:52 | |
“Criminally neglected” author Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) is credited with writing the first stream-of-consciousness novel, which launched her thirteen-volume, semi-autobiographical masterwork, Pilgrimage. Joining us to discuss Dawn’s Left Hand, the tenth book in the series, are Scott McCracken, professor of 20th century literature at Queen Mary University of London, and Brad Bigelow, the editorial coordinator for Boiler House Press’s Recovered Books series. Discussed in this episode: Dawn’s Left Hand by Dorothy Richardson Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson March Moonlight by Dorothy Richardson James Joyce “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Thanksgiving-ish Books and Films | 22 Nov 2022 | 00:14:35 | |
For this week’s mini, we share the origin story of our writing partnership and chat about some books, TV shows, and films set in Colonial America. As ever, we’re thankful for you, our listeners! In mentioning Thanksgiving, we think it’s especially important to acknowledge that Los Angeles, where we live and record this podcast, is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh peoples. Discussed in this episode: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter (1926 film) Scene from The Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film) Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson Colonial House (2004 TV mini series) The Refugees by Arthur Conan Doyle For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Elsie Robinson with Allison Gilbert | 15 Nov 2022 | 00:41:46 | |
A newspaper columnist from the first half of the 20th century, Elsie Robinson walked away from a life of privilege in search of personal freedom, toiled in a gold mine as a single mother, and eventually hit rock-bottom before clawing her way to national success. Our guest is Allison Gilbert, an Emmy-Award-winning journalist whose latest book, written in collaboration with Julia Scheeres, is Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman. Discussed in this episode: Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margaret Wolfe Hungerford I Wanted Out! by Elsie Robinson Lindenhurst, Brattleboro, Vermont Northfield Mount Hermon School For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| America’s First Female Mayor | 08 Nov 2022 | 00:07:04 | |
Susanna M. Salter was a 27-year old political activist when she was placed on the 1860 Argonia, Kansas ballot as a joke. She became the first woman elected to serve as mayor in the United States and one of the first women to serve in any political office in the U.S. We learn more about her in this week’s mini. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson | 17 Sep 2024 | 00:33:13 | |
Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois boredom. Professor Cathryn Halverson from Sweden’s Södertörn University joins us for this episode to discuss MacLane’s life, angst and the reading public’s reaction to her adolescent intensity. I Await the Devil’s Coming/The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane (Project Gutenberg) MTV’s “My So-Called Life” Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume “Men Who Have Made Love to Me” I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn Halverson Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West by Cathryn Halverson Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives by Cathryn Halverson For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Rona Jaffe — The Best of Everything with Josh Lambert | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:37:06 | |
Rona Jaffe was only 27 when she rose to stardom with her 1958 novel, The Best of Everything, a roman á clef about the adventures of four young, single women working in New York City’s publishing industry. Our guest is Josh Lambert, an associate professor of English and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Wellesley College. His latest book, The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature, was published in July 2022 by Yale University Press. Discussed in this episode: The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe with an Introduction by Rachel Syme (Penguin Random House) The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert The Best of Everything (1959 film) Elbowing the Seducer by T. Gertler Rona Jaffe on Playboys’ Penthouse (YouTube) For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| May Agnes Fleming — The Midnight Queen with Brian Busby | 25 Oct 2022 | 00:39:02 | |
Gothic thriller The Midnight Queen (1863) was written by May Agnes Fleming, a prolific Canadian author who specialized in churning out binge-worthy books, making her one of the nation’s first best-selling authors. Our guest is Canadian literary historian and author Brian Busby of The Dusty Bookcase. Discussed in this episode: The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming The Dusty Bookcase The Tempest by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Marion, the Story of an Artist’s Model by Winnifred Eaton Brad Bigelow and Neglected Books Do Evil in Return by Margaret Millar The Untempered Wind by Joanna E. Wood For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon | 18 Oct 2022 | 00:32:35 | |
Author Alena Dillon joins us for this week’s mini to discuss the medical treatment of women and mothers and how it’s evolved over time. We’ll touch on hysteria, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and some of the things that surprised us about giving birth. Discussed in this episode: Eyes Turned Skyward by Alena Dillon My Body Is a Big, Fat Temple by Alena Dillon Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn Tokology: A Book for Every Woman Alice B. Stockham Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Ida B. Craddock with Amy Sohn For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English “Maternal Instinct is a Myth that Man Created” by Chelsea Conoboy (NYTimes) Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Rachel Vorona Cotes Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cotes “Abortion was once common practice…” (NPR) “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Anne Hampton Brewster — St. Martin’s Summer with Etta Madden | 11 Oct 2022 | 00:41:17 | |
Anne Hampton Brewster’s florid 1866 novel St. Martin’s Summer is set mostly in Italy and inspired by her experiences as a young, single American woman on her European grand tour. Brewster, who became one of America's first female foreign correspondents, is also one of the fascinating women profiled in our guest Etta Madden’s recent book Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks. St. Martin’s Summer by Anne Hampton Brewster Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta Madden A Room with a View by E.M. Forster The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson with Anne Boyd Rioux Discussed in this episode: St. Martin’s Summer by Anne Hampton Brewster Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta Madden A Room with a View by E.M. Forster The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson with Anne Boyd Rioux For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Lola Ridge with Terese Svoboda | 04 Oct 2022 | 00:41:09 | |
Lola Ridge was once considered one of America's preeminent poets, on par with E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Toomer, and Robert Frost. We discuss the radical life and career of this early 20th century modernist poet, anarchist, and literary editor with guest Terese Svoboda, whose 2018 biography of Ridge was described as “magisterial” in The Washington Post. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast Discussed in this episode: Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts Hilda Dolittle (H.D.) Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast Others: A Magazine of New Verse For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Cabinets of Curiosities & The Museum of Jurassic Technology | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:16:03 | |
Cue the Twin Peaks theme music. In this week’s mini, we take a Lynchian detour to discuss the book Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler and share our mutual love for L.A. 's weirdly wonderful Museum of Jurassic of Technology and other strange museums around the world. For episodes and show notes, visit: Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast Discussed in this episode: Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler The Museum of Jurassic Technology International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago Julia Bulette Red Light Museum in Virginia City Funeral Carriage Museum in Barcelona For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Helen Cromwell — Good Time Party Girl with Christina Ward | 20 Sep 2022 | 00:42:21 | |
Following her straight-laced Edwardian-era upbringing, “Dirty” Helen Cromwell became a call girl-turned-madame, bootlegger, and legendary speakeasy owner. The life of every party, she counted Al Capone among her many famous friends. Our guest is Christina Ward, who reintroduced the world to Cromwell’s unputdownable memoir Good Time Party Girl: The Notorious Life of Dirty Helen Cromwell 1886-1969. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Odds & Ends | 13 Sep 2022 | 00:17:31 | |
In this week’s mini episode, we share some interesting odds and ends related to recent episodes, including a “no, she didn’t!” letter by lost poet Debora Vogel as well as letters from our listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in! We appreciate every single one of you. For episodes and show notes, visit: Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Miriam Michelson — The Superwoman with Lori Harrison-Kahan | 06 Sep 2022 | 00:40:09 | |
Before she became a bestselling fiction writer whose work was deemed “catchy as ragtime,” Miriam Michelson made a name for herself as a “girl reporter” covering crime and politics for a major San Francisco paper. Professor Lori Harrison-Kahan, who edited 2019’s The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson, joins us to discuss Michelson and her 1912 feminist utopian novella The Superwoman. For episodes and show notes, visit: Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Laura Valentine -- The Secret Shakespeare Editor | 30 Aug 2022 | 00:15:23 | |
In today’s mini episode, we talk about a lady novelist who is also thought to have secretly edited a Victorian-era edition of Shakespeare that eventually sold over 340,000 copies. Shakespeare’s Lady Editors by Molly G. Yarn Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman | 10 Sep 2024 | 00:40:56 | |
HIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to discuss Fisher and her World War II-era book How to Cook a Wolf, which was an attempt to teach people how to eat well and be well amidst personal and collective chaos. Discussed in this episode: An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher by Anne Zimmerman How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Peg Bracken The Art of Eating Well by M.F.K. Fisher “The Wolf at the Door” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher Schlesinger Library at Harvard For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Margaret Kennedy — Troy Chimneys | 23 Aug 2022 | 00:27:15 | |
We think both Freud and Jane Austen might approve of one-time bestselling novelist and Austen biographer Margaret Kennedy’s delightfully clever 1953 historical novel, Troy Chimneys. Recently republished by McNally Editions, it’s written in the Regency style and from the perspective of a male hero with dueling personalities. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Sylvia Beach and Ulysses | 16 Aug 2022 | 00:13:45 | |
In this week’s mini, we’re talking about Sylvia Beach, the American who in 1919 founded the beloved bookshop Shakespeare and Company on Paris’s Left Bank. Beach also played an instrumental role in the 1922 publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. For episodes and show notes, visit: Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: https://www.lostladiesoflit.com/contact For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast | 09 Aug 2022 | 00:44:33 | |
For our 100th episode (!), we’re reviving a lost literary scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in the West Coast’s early 20th century bohemian society. Joining us to discuss lost poet Nora May French and her life—and death—is Catherine Prendergast, author of the riveting book The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Mabel Walker Willebrandt — First Lady of Law | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:18:44 | |
As assistant attorney general of the United States from 1921 until 1929, Mabel Walker Willebrandt was the highest-ranking woman in the federal government at the time and, you could argue, one of the most famous women in America. Her job included the thankless task of enforcing Prohibition and prosecuting notorious crime bosses like Al Capone. Learn more about her fascinating life in this week’s mini episode. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts | 26 Jul 2022 | 00:35:34 | |
Literary critic and historian Joanna Scutts joins us to discuss Heterodoxy, a women-only debating group from the early 20th century that is the subject of her latest book, Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club That Sparked Modern Feminism. Notable members included Susan Glaspell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman of “The Yellow Wallpaper” fame. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Lost Ladies of Art with Sara Woster | 19 Jul 2022 | 00:23:26 | |
Joining us for this week’s mini on four fascinating lost lady artists (Gertrude Abercrombie, Augusta Savage, Florine Stettheimer, and Edmonia Lewis) is artist Sara Woster, author of the new book Painting Can Save Your Life. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Debora Vogel — Acacias Bloom with Juliette Bretan | 12 Jul 2022 | 00:43:47 | |
Polish Jewish Modernist writer Debora Vogel’s poetry and literary “montages” pushed the boundaries of what literature could be. Joining us to discuss the “wandering star” of Polish and Yiddish literature and her 1935 prose work Acacias Bloom is Juliette Bretan, a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s Newnham College. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Merchant Ivory Fan Club | 05 Jul 2022 | 00:22:43 | |
In this week’s mini, we dig deep into the back catalog of Merchant Ivory (Jhabvala) films to discuss some of their lesser known gems and ones you might want to just skip—as well as wax rhapsodic about our forever faves. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Special Bonus Episode: Penelope Mortimer — Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | 01 Jul 2022 | 00:20:59 | |
Profoundly dismayed by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special bonus episode on Penelope Mortimer’s must-read 1958 novel, Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting. Abortion and the right to choose are central to the plot, making it just as timely as when it first shocked critics with its “feminine rage.” For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales | 28 Jun 2022 | 00:46:11 | |
As Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtime collaborator, novelist and Academy Award winning-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Hollywood screenwriter Brigitte Hales joins us to discuss Jhabvala and her Booker Prize-winning 1975 novel, Heat and Dust. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler | 03 Sep 2024 | 00:44:48 | |
As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and speak truth to power. The Nazis dubbed her “that dragon from Chicago,” and her importance as an indomitable “newspaperman” (her term) telling Americans about the Third Reich's agenda can’t be understated. Amy speaks this week with Pamela Toler, the author of a new biography on Schultz’s life, work and lasting legacy. Mentioned in this episode: The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela Toler Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela Toler Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela Toler The Chicago Tribune McCall’s Magazine Richard Henry Little, a.k.a. Dick Little The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer Erik Larson’s In The Garden of Beasts Germany Will Try it Again by Sigrid Schultz For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| A Very Brief History of the Proust Questionnaire | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:18:33 | |
Join us as we uncover a short history of the Proust Questionnaire, from how it got its name to some of the other notable writers from history who’ve filled one out—and we even take a stab at answering a few of the questions ourselves. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald | 14 Jun 2022 | 00:44:29 | |
What Not, Rose Macaulay’s 1918 wild and witty speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics, influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our guest is literary historian Kate Macdonald, who wrote the first collection of scholarly essays on Macaulay and spearheads the publishing company Handheld Press. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Literal Beach Reads | 07 Jun 2022 | 00:21:13 | |
For this week’s mini, we’re taking “beach reads” literally, and have lined up a list of novels set at or near the seaside. Our selections aren’t necessarily light or fluffy, but they’re definitely page turners. So grab your favorite literary tote and some SPF, and take a listen! For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Tess Slesinger — The Unpossessed with Paula Rabinowitz and Peter Davis | 31 May 2022 | 00:41:45 | |
Joining us to discuss Tess Slesinger and her brilliant 1934 novel, The Unpossessed, is her son, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker and novelist Peter Davis, and cultural critic and professor Paula Rabinowitz. Extremely popular for a brief period, Slesinger’s satirical novel about Depression-era, left-wing New Yorkers was printed four times within a month of publication making her a minor celebrity almost overnight. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Maud Wagner — Lost Lady of Tattoo Art | 24 May 2022 | 00:13:22 | |
Join us as we learn more about the first known female tattoo artist in the United States, Maud Wagner. Born in 1877, Maud grew up to become a circus acrobat and, once most of her body was covered with tattoos, a walking exhibition unto herself. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Kay Dick — They with Lucy Scholes | 17 May 2022 | 00:40:01 | |
Lucy Scholes rejoins us this week to discuss Kay Dick and her lost dystopian masterpiece from 1977, They, which has been newly republished by McNally Editions. Lucy, who is the Senior Editor of McNally Editions, rediscovered Dick after coming across her obituary and subsequently wrote about the novel in her column for The Paris Review, “Re-Covered.” For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Books in the Vein of Downton Abbey | 10 May 2022 | 00:16:02 | |
From the book that originally inspired Julian Fellowes to write the screenplays for both Gosford Park and Downton Abbey to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s series The Cazalet Chronicles, in this week's mini we’re chatting about books with Downton-esque vibes. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Mary Taylor — Miss Miles with Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney | 03 May 2022 | 00:42:25 | |
Did you know that Charlotte Brontë’s close friend Mary Taylor was also a novelist? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, who co-authored the 2017 non-fiction book A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, join us to discuss Taylor’s 1890 novel Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago. Far from being a love story, Miss Miles makes the forceful argument that all women ought to have the right and the wherewithal to provide for themselves. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Quilt-Making As a Feminist, Political Act | 26 Apr 2022 | 00:11:34 | |
In this week’s mini, we’re exploring the work of contemporary fine artists Faith Ringgold and Bisa Butler, whose quilts are inspired by a rich African-American quilting tradition, and Adeline Harris Sears’s 19th century signature quilt with autographs by notables including Charles Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Dorothy Evelyn Smith — O, the Brave Music with Simon Thomas | 19 Apr 2022 | 00:40:56 | |
In 2021, the British Library Women Writers Series published an edition of Dorothy Evelyn’s Smith’s quietly joyful and sometimes dark coming-of-age novel, O, the Brave Music. Joining us is the series consultant and author of the book’s afterword, Dr. Simon Thomas. Sometimes compared to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I Capture the Castle, O, the Brave Music is set before the first world war and has a female narrator looking back on her childhood as a minister’s daughter on England’s moors. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| HIATUS ENCORE: Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser | 27 Aug 2024 | 00:44:31 | |
HIATUS ENCORE: Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porters’ books took Regency-era England by storm just a few years ahead of Jane Austen, and their lives were chock-full of fascinating (and insufferable) characters, intriguing romantic escapades, event-filled interludes at the homes of wealthy acquaintances and desperate gambits to stay one step ahead of the poverty line. Joining us is ASU Regents Professor of English, Devoney Looser, whose new book is Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontes. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a triumph of literary detective work.” Discussed in this episode: Artless Tales by Anna Maria Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter The Hungarian Brothers by Anna Maria Porter “The End of the English Major” (The New Yorker, 2/27/2023) For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| The Polarizing Ambiguities of Motherhood in Books | 12 Apr 2022 | 00:21:08 | |
In this week’s mini episode on “unnatural mothers,” we discuss classics such as Anna Karenina and The Awakening and more contemporary works, including Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood and Rachel Cusk’s memoir A Life’s Work. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket | 05 Apr 2022 | 00:51:06 | |
Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and motherhood with award-winning writer Hilma Wolitzer. Her short stories, most of them originally appearing in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, were re-discovered by her daughter, bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and published last summer in a new collection earning great critical acclaim. Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket has received rave reviews from authors like Elizabeth Strout, Lauren Groff, and Tayari Jones and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song | 29 Mar 2022 | 00:16:25 | |
In today’s mini episode, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who wrote under the pen name Lesya Ukrainka. Her play The Forest Song is a masterpiece of Ukrainian drama. Discussed in this episode: The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka Looking for Trouble by Virginia Cowles Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Virginia Cowles’ Looking for Trouble Invisible Battalion (2017 documentary) “Ukraine Isn’t Part of Little Russia” (KCRW) Dead Poets Society (1989 film) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare “Contra Spem Spero” by Lesya Ukrainka For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| Frances Harper — Iola Leroy with Dr. Koritha Mitchell | 22 Mar 2022 | 00:47:42 | |
Abolitionist, suffragist, and writer Frances Harper was widely acclaimed in her day and one of the first African-American women to be published in the United States. Her novel Iola Leroy is an eye-opening look at what it was like for Black Americans in the midst of, and in the decades following, the Civil War. Joining us in conversation is award-winning author, professor, and literary historian Dr. Koritha Mitchell, who edited and wrote the introduction to the 2018 Broadview Press edition. Living with Lynching by Dr. Koritha Mitchell “The Two Offers” by Frances Harper Carla Peterson (University of Maryland English Department) “Forest Leaves” by Frances Harper The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||
| The Gillian Beer Fan Club | 15 Mar 2022 | 00:17:19 | |
In this week’s mini, we’re discussing the life and work of literary critic Gillian Beer whose classic scholarly publication from 1983, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction, should be essential reading for anyone who loves 19th century literature. Discussed in this episode: How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Rosamond Lehmann and Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes Meredith: A Change of Masks by Gillian Beer The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith Bleak House by Charles Dickens Arguing with the Past by Gillian Beer Stations Without Signs by Gillian Beer To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground by Gillian Beer Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast | |||