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The real-life Alice in Wonderland

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

Christina Rossetti

“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti

Gabriele Rossetti

Dante Gabriel 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 Liddell sisters

The Princess Bride film

“Be Our Guest” number from Beauty & the Beast

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Hiatus Replay: Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung

Season 1 · Episode 122

mardi 10 janvier 2023 • Duration 33:50

These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung

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.

Discussed in this episode:

Victoria Namkung

The Things We Tell Ourselves by Victoria Namkung

Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Anne Boyd Rioux in Episode 11

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

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Hiatus Replay: Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux

Season 1 · Episode 121

mardi 3 janvier 2023 • Duration 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.

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Victorian Parlour Games

Season 1 · Episode 120

mardi 27 décembre 2022 • Duration 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!

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Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

Season 1 · Episode 119

mardi 20 décembre 2022 • Duration 12:24

British Library Women Writers Series

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:

Simon Thomas

Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

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The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George

Season 1 · Episode 118

mardi 13 décembre 2022 • Duration 39:07

The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press)

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:

Dr. Leigh-Michil George

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sanditon (PBS)

Bridgerton (Netflix)

Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn

Sanditon by Jane Austen

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)

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Our Covid Binges

Season 1 · Episode 117

mardi 6 décembre 2022 • Duration 22:43

Lucy Worsely Investigates

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:

The Great

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Talking Tudors

The Sunshine Place

A Woman of Colour by Anonymous

Winter Love by Han Suyin

Hester by Margaret Oliphant

Two Thousand-Million Man Power by Gertrude Trevelyan

Derry Girls

Delicious

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

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Dorothy Richardson — Dawn’s Left Hand with Scott McCracken and Brad Bigelow

Season 1 · Episode 116

mardi 29 novembre 2022 • Duration 45:52

Dawn’s Left Hand by Dorothy Richardson

“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:

Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson

March Moonlight by Dorothy Richardson

Marcel Proust

James Joyce

ReadingPilgrimage.com

“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot

Henry James

Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series

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Thanksgiving-ish Books and Films

Season 1 · Episode 115

mardi 22 novembre 2022 • Duration 14:35

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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:

Romancing the Tome

The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

Easy A (2010 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

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Crucible (1996 film)

Colonial House (2004 TV mini series)

The Refugees by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Village (2004 film)

The New World (2005 film)

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Elsie Robinson with Allison Gilbert

Season 1 · Episode 114

mardi 15 novembre 2022 • Duration 41:46

Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert and Julia Scheeres (Seal Press)

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:

Benicia, CA

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

I Wanted Out! by Elsie Robinson

Lindenhurst, Brattleboro, Vermont

Northfield Mount Hermon School

Meghan Markle

Hornitos, CA