A widow who turned to her pen to support herself and her family, Christine de Pizan was described by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex as the first “woman to take up her pen in defense of her sex.” Published in 1405, The Book of the City of Ladies is Christine’s history of Western civilization from the point of view—and in praise of—women, showcasing them as the intellectual and moral equals of men. Joining us is San Diego State University women’s study professor emeritus Kathleen B. Jones, whose recently published debut novel, Cities of Women, was inspired by the life and works of de Pizan.
Discussed:
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Cities of Women by Kathleen B. Jones
The Rest Is History podcast on The Hundred Years War
Queen Isabeau of Bavaria (married to Charles VI)
The Mutation of Fortune by Christine de Pizan
The Romance of the Rose by Jean de Meunes
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Book of Peace by Christine de Pizan
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Learn more about the feminist open source publisher cita press and An Immortal Book: Selected Writings of Sui Sin Far, a curated collection of short fiction and nonfiction by the pioneering writer, Sui Sin Far (also known as Edith Maude Eaton), one of our past "lost ladies." A journalist and writer of Chinese and British descent who moved to the U.S, Sui Sin Far wrote about what it was like to live as a Chinese woman in a white America. We welcome back our previous guest Victoria Namkung as well as the founder and design director of cita Press, Juliana Castro Varón, the publisher of this new collection.
Discussed:
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Sui Sin Far with Victoria Namkung
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Winnifred Eaton with Mary Chapman
Papel sensible by Juliana Castro Varón
An Immortal Book: Selected Writings of Sui Sin Far by cita Press
These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung
The Things We Tell Ourselves by Victoria Namkung
The Beautiful by Vernon Lee (a.k.a. Violet Paget)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott
Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
The Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Meditations on the Song of Songs by Santa Terese de Jesús
Voices Around Me: Nobel Prize Lectures
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Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le Sueur used the intervening decades to transform her work into a beautifully-written, powerful narrative, focusing on the lives of marginalized women in Depression-era America. Joining us is Dr. Rosemary Hennessy, a Professor of English at Rice University, whose most recent book, In the Company of Radical Women Writers, rediscovers the political commitments and passionate advocacy of seven writers, including Le Sueur.
Discussed:
Meridel Le Sueur
“Women on the Breadlines” by Meridel Le Sueur
“The Dread Road” by Meridel Le Seur
“Annunciation” by Meridel Le Sueur
“Women Know a Lot of Things” by Meridel Le Sueur
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Women Talking novel by Miriam Toews
Women Talking film by Sarah Polley
“My People are My Home” film by Meridel Le Sueur
Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 106 on Dirty Helen Cromwell’s Good Time Party Girl
John Crawford and West End Press
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In this week’s mini, Amy shares some of the lesser-known spots she visited on her August trip to England (which included meetups with a few past guests from the show!). From Cotswolds beauty to bizarre curiosities—as well as a few lost ladies—you’ll be wishing she had packed you along in her suitcase!
CORRECTION: Leonora Carrington originally met Max Ernst at Erno and Ursula Goldfinger’s previous address at the Highpoint apartments in North London. They were never married.
Discussed:
William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress
Lost Ladies of Lit Episodes with Lucy Scholes on Rosamond Lehmann
Lost Ladies of Lit Episodes with Lucy Scholes on Kay Dick
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on The Gilded Age
Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Simon David Thomas on Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Royal Shakespeare Company Stratford on Avon
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nancy Mitford
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Joining us to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and her seminal work, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, is Dr. Susan J. Wolfson, a professor of English from Princeton University whose scholarship focuses on British Writers of the Romantic period. Her latest book, On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was published in April 2023 by Columbia University Press.
Discussed:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Susan J. Wolfson
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley
"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"A Vindication of the Rights of Men" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"Sermons to Young Women" by James Fordyce
“Emile, or On Education” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters by Dr. John Gregory
Memoir of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by William Godwin
Modern Woman: the Lost Sex by Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Virginia Woolf’s essay on Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Sylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes” (1926) holds a coveted spot on The Guardian's list of the top 100 English language novels and acclaimed director Greta Gerwig is also a fan. Author Sarah Watling joins us to discuss how the novel critiques societal constraints placed on single women and its connection to Townsend Warner's activism. Watling's latest work, "Tomorrow Perhaps the Future," is a multi-subject biography that delves into the political stance of literary figures, including Townsend Warner, during the Spanish Civil War.
Discussed:
"Lolly Willowes" (or "The Loving Huntsman") by Sylvia Townsend Warner
"Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters; Four Lives in Seven Fragments" by Sarah Watling
"Tomorrow Perhaps the Future" by Sarah Watling
Nancy Cunard (Writer and political activist)
Virginia Cowles (War reporter)
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From Dark Academia trends inspired by Donna Tartt's “The Secret History” to other campus novels like Kingsley Amis' “Lucky Jim” and Philip Roth's “The Human Stain,” we delve into the quirks, challenges, and intrigues of university professor characters and campus settings for this week’s mini. We also touch on classics like Dorothy L. Sayers’ “Gaudy Night” and Mary McCarthy's “The Groves of Academe,” among others.
Discussed:
Donna Tartt: “The Secret History"
Podcast Recommendation: "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College"
John Edward Williams: "Stoner"
Dorothy Sayers: "Gaudy Night" (part of the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels)
Mary McCarthy: Book Mentioned: "The Groves of Academe"
David Lodge: Campus Trilogy: "Changing Places,” "Small World", and "Work"
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When 'Divorcing' was first published in 1969, the critic Hugh Kenner penned a review for the New York Times that dismissed its author, Susan Taubes, as 'a quick-change artist donning the garments of other writers.' Tragically, merely days after the review's publication, Taubes took her own life. However, in recent years, there has been a profound reassessment of her work. In 2020, New York Review Books released a new edition of 'Divorcing,' marking a pivotal point in bringing her writings back into the spotlight. Her oeuvre, once relegated to obscurity, has now been compared to the literary prowess of her close friend Susan Sontag, as well as luminaries Renata Adler and Margaret Atwood. Guest Rosemary Kelty joins us to discuss Taubes and ‘Divorcing.’
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In support of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, this week’s mini is focused on lost lady screenwriters. In the early days of Hollywood, more than half of all screenplays copyrighted were written by women, who were pioneers in this field.
Discussed in this episode:
Go West, Young Women: The Rise of Early Hollywood by Hilary Hallet
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Elinor Glyn with Hilary Hallet
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Ursula Parrott with Marsha Gordon
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Winifred Eaton with Mary Chapman
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Tess Slesinger with Paula Rabinowitz and Peter Davis
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Ismat Chughtai was one of the boldest and most outspoken writers of her day. Her cleverly-crafted short story “The Quilt” sparked a years-long obscenity trial, but it also helped establish her as a writer who wasn’t afraid to shine a light on taboo subjects and speak frankly about women’s experiences both in the traditional and modern Indian world. Our guest is author Tania Malik whose most recent book, Hope You Are Satisfied, is a suspense-story set in Dubai.
Discussed:
“Hope You Are Satisfied” by Tania Malik
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In this week’s mini episode, we’re talking about Anne Askew, a Tudor writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a heretic during the reign of Henry VIII. We’ll also explore the possible connection to Kim’s own family history.
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Set in 16th-century France and published in 1941, Janet Lewis’s “The Wife of Martin Guerre” revolves around one woman's struggle to reconcile cold facts with the truth in her heart. Inspired by a real historical incident, the novella delves into the trial of a woman who faces a predicament when her long-lost husband unexpectedly reappears. Our guest is poet, biographer, and UC Davis professor Iris Jamahl Dunkle.
Discussed:
The Wife of Martin Guerre (novel) by Janet Lewis
West: Fire: Archive (poetry collection) by Iris Jamahl Dunkle
The History of a Nun (novel) by Aphra Behn
Billy Budd (novella) by Herman Melville
"The Trial of Sören Qvist" - One of Janet Lewis's novels from the "Circumstantial Evidence" trilogy
"The Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck
"Whose Names Are Unknown" - A novel by Sanora Babb
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In this week’s mini we discuss Elspeth Barker, a Scottish writer raised in Drumtochty Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where her parents ran a prep school for boys. Barker was a close friend of last week’s lost lady, Elizabeth Smart despite the fact that Barker was married to the poet George Barker, Smart’s former lover and the father of her children. We loved Elspeth’s novel “O Caledonia” with its unique coming-of-age narrative and dark academia vibe.
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When Elizabeth Smart’s 1945 poetic prose novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” was reissued in 1966, Angela Carter called it "Madame Bovary blasted by lightning," and Morrissey has since credited Smart’s writing as having influenced his lyrics for The Smiths. This week’s guests are biographer Rosemary Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Maya Gallus, both authorities on Smart’s fascinating life and work.
Discussed:
People:
- Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)
- Angela Carter (novelist and literary critic)
- Morrissey (musician, songwriter, and member of The Smiths)
- Rosemary Sullivan (biographer, author of "By Heart" - biography of Elizabeth Smart)
- Maya Gallus (filmmaker, director of "Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels" documentary)
- George Barker
Books:
- "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept" by Elizabeth Smart
- "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
- "The Dead Seagull" - A book written by George Barker, which portrays his version of their love affair.
- "The Assumption of Rogues and Rascals" - Also written by Elizabeth Smart, a companion piece to "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept," where she reflects on her choices and life experiences.
- “O Caledonia” - A book by Elsbeth Barker, the final wife of George Barker, which will be discussed in a future episode
Other Entities:
- The Smiths (British rock band)
- Virago Press (feminist publishing house)
- Red Queen Productions (Maya Gallus' film production company)
- Charing Cross Road (famous street in London with many bookshops)
- The Book of Psalms (biblical text)
- Queen Magazine - The publication where Elizabeth Smart became the editor in 1965, bringing changes and giving a place to women writers.
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Did you know that a woman wrote the very first novel ever? (We didn’t!) In this week’s mini, we learn more about Murasaki Shikibu's master work “The Tale of Genji.” The novel’s blend of passion, intrigue, and psychological depth has earned this ancient Japanese work comparisons to modern sensations like "Sex in the City" and "50 Shades of Grey," while also drawing parallels to the literary genius of Proust.
In this episode:
Murasaki Shikibu: Japanese author of "The Tale of Genji”
Elizabeth Smart: Canadian-born author of "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"
Tyler Translation: Recommended English translation of "The Tale of Genji"
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With the re-release of Winnifred Eaton's riveting 100 year-old novel CATTLE, we’re thrilled to be joined by Mary Chapman, director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive. Described as "a curious Canadian mixture of Hardy and Steinbeck” and set in the sweeping landscapes of Alberta, CATTLE is a love story with strong Western vibes.
In this episode:
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Winnifred Eaton (also known as Onoto Watanna)
"Cattle" by Winnifred Eaton from Invisible Publishing
"Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture, and US Modernism" by Mary Chapman
"Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction Journalism and Travel Writing" edited by Mary Chapman
"Onoto Watana's Cattle at 100" conference in Calgary
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In today’s mini, we look into the fascinating life of Mercy Otis Warren, a hidden wordsmith of American history and the first female reporter of the American revolution. Armed with a pen as her weapon, Warren wrote scathing satirical plays that ignited the revolution and documented the birth of a nation.
Discussed in this episode:
Plays:
"The Adulateur" (written by Mercy Otis Warren)
"The Squabble of the Sea Nymphs" (written by Mercy Otis Warren)
Books:
"Clarissa" by Samuel Richardson
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When Jane White’s gripping and unsettling debut novel Quarry was first published in 1967, a review in The Scotsman called it “the most frightening novel of the year.” Joining us is White’s daughter-in-law, Dr. Helen Hughes, of the University of Surrey, who wrote the afterword to the new Boiler House Press edition of Quarry.
Discussed:
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Beatrice, Falling by Jane White
The Neglected Books page on Jane White
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In this week’s mini episode we uncover the hidden talents of famous writers who ventured into children's literature, including Ian Fleming's surprising connection to Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Upton Sinclair's whimsical Gnome adventure, and James Joyce's peculiar cat tales.
Discussed in this episode:
Mental Floss article by Lucas Reilly (“12 Famous Authors Who Also Wrote Children’s Books”)
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming
The Gnomobile: A Gnice Gnew Gnarrative with Gnonsense but Gnothing Gnaughty by Upton Sinclair
The Cat and the Devil by James Joyce
The Cats of Copenhagen by James Joyce
The Crows of Pearblossom by Aldous Huxley
The Good Lion by Ernest Hemingway
The Faithful Bull by Ernest Hemingway
Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Lucy Scholes on Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
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In this week's episode, we are joined by critic and author Maud Newton as we delve into Theodora Keogh's enigmatic and haunting 1952 novel, "Street Music," which takes place in post-War Paris. As the granddaughter of an American icon, Keogh's writing possessed a subversive quality that defied easy classification, challenging readers and earning admiration from notable authors such as Patricia Highsmith.
Discussed:
Street Music by Theodora Keogh
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (Theodora Keogh's aunt)
Joan Schenkar (Patricia Highsmith's biographer)
The Double Door by Theodora Keogh
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The gorgeous book Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life mines the life and musings of famous women authors on subjects such as finding your literary voice, conquering inner demons, dealing with rejection and how to deal with writer’s block. Joining us for this week’s mini is the book’s author, Nava Atlas.
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With her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love is the 1918 Yiddish precursor to Girls’ Hannah Horvath, Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, and Bridget Jones. Guest Jessica Kirzane’s English translation of the novel was published by Syracuse University Press in 2020.
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Sometimes the most fraught journey is simply making it to adulthood. In this week’s mini, we talk about authors who survived unusual and/or traumatic childhoods and used their experiences to write engrossing, and often healing, works of art.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not for a renewed push by author Alice Walker in the 1970s, Hurston and her legacy might well have been lost. We have Melissa Kiguwa, host of The Idealists podcast, joining us to discuss Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.
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In this week’s mini, we discuss Nora Ephron’s 1983 autobiographical novel Heartburn, inspired by the breakdown of her marriage with journalist Carl Bernstein. Plus Amy tries out some of the book’s recipes on her unsuspecting family.
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This is the Jazz Age novel we should have read in high school! Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife was an instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, and it’s inspired by her own experience as a young divorcée and flapper in New York. Guest Marsha Gordon’s new biography of Parrott, Becoming the Ex-Wife, arrives in bookstores at the same time as a reissue of the dazzling novel from McNally Editions.
Links:
Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha Gordon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts
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In this week’s mini, we take a look at British writer Jenny Diski and her relationship with famed novelist Doris Lessing, who took a teenaged Jenny into her home. Though Lessing never adopted Diski, they had a long and at times awkward pseudo-familial relationship that Diski explored in her writing.
Links:
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski
Lost Ladies of Lit with Hilma Wolitzer
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
Jenny Diski in The London Review of Books
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With its speculative plot including an expedition through the desert, a cryptic treasure map, secret chambers, and a run-in with an ancient sacred crocodile, Pauline E. Hopkins’ thrilling afrofuturist 1902 novel Of One Blood; or The Hidden Self calls to mind Black Panther’s Wakanda and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Hopkins brings up a lot of questions about race and power in the midst of all this thrilling storytelling, reclaiming Black history in her appeal for racial justice. Guests, Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney, colleagues in the English department at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, edited a brand new edition of Of One Blood for Broadview Press.
Links:
Of One Blood by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Broadview Press)
The Digital Colored American Magazine
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Did you know that novelist and iconic flapper Zelda Fitgerald was also an accomplished artist? In 1926, she began creating a series of paper dolls for her daughter, Scottie, and continued working on them for much of the rest of her life. Her granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, saved and collected these paper dolls which were recently compiled into a beautiful, 128-page book, The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald. Join us as we learn more in our latest mini episode.
Discussed in this episode:
Master Puppet Theater: The World of Shakespeare at Your Fingertips
Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald
The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald
“Z: The Beginning of Everything”
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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)
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No, we’re not talking about that kind of “dirty,” we’re talking about the germy kind as it relates to stuff that’s been found in the pages of library books over the years. Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s poignant, and other times, it’s just plain toxic! Join us as we digress in this week’s mini episode.
Discussed in this episode:
“Why Joey Keeps Books in the Freezer” (From Friends, Season 3, Episode 13, YouTube)
“Why You Should Always Put a Book In the Freezer…” (Wellandgood.com)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Emily Eden’s The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Dorothy Richardson’s Dawn’s Left Hand
Winterthur Museum and Library in Delaware
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What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shades of Middlemarch and The Great Gatsby? Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel, first published in 2002, checks all those boxes and more. Joining us to discuss A True Novel is Lavanya Krishnan, co-founder of the literary book subscription Boxwalla.
Discussed in this episode:
A True Novel by Minae Mizumura
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Why I Write What I Write” by Minae Mizumura
Writing Routines with Minae Mizumura
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Light and Darkness, Continued by Minae Mizumura
An I Novel from Left to Right by Minae Mizumura
A Heart So White by Javier Marías
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
The Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
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Guest Dr. Leah Broad joins us from Oxford University’s Christ Church to discuss Quartet, her acclaimed new biography of four British composers: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen. Three of the four women were celebrities in their own day and all were incredibly talented, yet their captivating life stories and their once acclaimed compositions have been all but forgotten today. We also discuss the film Tár.
Discussed in this episode:
Our Lost Ladies of Music Spotify playlist
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad
The March of the Women by Ethel Smyth
Bishop Rock by Doreen Carwithen
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Born to a Chinese father and a Belgian mother, Han Suyin qualified as a doctor in London before moving to Hong Kong to practice medicine. After her novel A Many-Splendored Thing was adapted into a film in 1955, she became a full-time writer. Join us to learn more about Suyin’s remarkable life and her jewel of a novella, Winter Love, first published in 1962. In it, she tells the story of “Red,” who falls passionately in love with her married classmate, Mara, during the freezing, war-ravaged London winter of 1944.
Discussed in this episode:
Winter Love by Han Suyin (McNally Editions)
A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955 film)
“Dragon Ladies” by Karen Shepard (The Millions)
Lost Ladies of Lit Troy Chimneys
Lost Ladies of Lit Daddy’s Gone a Hunting
Lost Ladies of Lit Sui Sin Far
“Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx
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In this week’s mini, we’re talking about twins in fiction, from Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Stephen King’s The Shining to some lesser-known gems. Plus, we have a letter from a new listener who wrote to us after hearing our episode about her late mother, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Discussed in this episode:
Lost Ladies of Lit on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
A Room with a View (1985 film)
The Parent Trap (1961 film)
Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner
Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim
Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser
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If you’re drawn to the hefty tomes of Victorian authors Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, we can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy this week’s novel, Hester, as much as we did. Margaret Oliphant is said to have been one of Queen Victoria’s favorite novelists, and she counted J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson among her many fans. Joining us to discuss Hester is New York Times columnist and pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass.
Discussed in this episode:
The Best Medicine by Perri Klass
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
The Chronicles of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant
Miss Marjoriebanks by Margaret Oliphant
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In this week’s mini we discuss the renowned Yaddo Artists’ Colony and the bittersweet story of the woman who envisioned this sylvan retreat on 400 acres in Saratoga Springs, New York. Since its inception in 1926 huge names in American literature have spent time as artists in residence at Yaddo, including important writers like Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Patricia Highsmith, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Lost Lady poet Lola Ridge.
Discussed in this episode:
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Yaddo: Making American Culture by Micki McGee
The Lady of Yaddo: The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask by Lynn Esmay
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Like the sexually-liberated Tiger Queen from her scandalous bestselling 1907 novel Three Weeks, Elinor Glyn was bold, provocative and glamourous, with a magnetism that endeared her to international readers and Hollywood celebrities alike. (She counted Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Charlie Chaplin among her personal friends.) After introducing the concept of the steamy “romance novel” to the staid Victorian world, Glyn became a pioneer of the Hollywood movie industry and shaped how romance was, and still is, portrayed on the silver screen. Joining us is Hilary A. Hallett, Director of American Studies at Columbia University and author of Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood.
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Daisy, the Countess of Warwick
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New episodes beginning Feb 7. This episode originally aired in June 2021. Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac, and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard’s brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.
Discussed in this episode:
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Temple House by Elizabeth Stoddard
Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot
“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti
Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco on Lost Ladies of Lit
“Tell It Slant” in VQR by Rachel Vorona Cote
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We're back with a full episode on Feb. 7. Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s light Victorian-era romances were known throughout the English-speaking world, and her novel Molly Bawn was even name dropped in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Join us to find out why in a discussion with guest Jessica Callahan, Hallmark Channel exec and former editor of romance and mystery novels at Penguin Group.
Discussed in this episode:
Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Phyllis by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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We're back with new episodes on February 7! The New York Times called The Green Parrot “A strange and beautiful story, with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth-century snuff box.” That’s just one of the many reasons Amy and Kim couldn’t wait to discuss the provocative and brilliant author Princess Marthe Bibesco and her 1924 gem of a novel. Joining them is this week’s guest, book publicist and jewelry designer Lauren Cerand.
Discussed in this episode:
The Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco
The Eight Paradises by Marthe Bibesco
“A Rose that Held a Princess’s Secret” (Mental Floss)
Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe
Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
More Was Lost by Eleanor Piryani
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
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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:
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
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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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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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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!
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British Library Women Writers Series
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
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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)
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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
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“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
ReadingPilgrimage.com
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot
Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
Alexandre Dumas
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
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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
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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.
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
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Catbird’s Leigh Plessner joins us to discuss the 1931 novella Sundays and its fascinating author, French socialite Daisy Fellowes. Heiress to the Singer sewing machine fortune, Fellowes was the Paris editor of the American Harper’s Bazaar and muse to the likes of Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Salvador Dali. Karl Lagerfeld reportedly once called her “the chicest woman I ever laid eyes on.”
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The Tutti Frutti collection by Cartier
“The Most Wicked Woman in High Society” (The Daily Mail)
Heiresses: the Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nancy Mitford with Laura Thompson
Cats in the Isle of Man by Daisy Fellowes
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In this week’s mini, we’ll tell you all about fly girls Beryl Markham and Amy Johnson, pioneering aviators from the 1930s whose fascinating exploits deserve to be as well known as those of their more famous fellow aviatrix, Amelia Earhart. Markham was also a writer, and her memoir about her adventures, West with the Night, was highly praised by Ernest Hemingway.
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Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Noel Streatfeild’s The Whicharts
“The night Prince Harry came to blows over the lover he shared with his brother” (Daily Mail)
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
“Queen of the Air: Inside the Mysterious Death of Hero Pilot Amy Johnson” (The Sun)
Amy Johnson by Constance Babbington Smith
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Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and not-for-children “shadow twin” that was published five years prior? Find out why it’s our favorite of the two in this week’s episode with our guest, author and bookstagrammer Wendy-Marie Chabot.
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Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
The Whicharts by Noel Streatfeild
Little Dancer Aged 14 by Edgar Degas
Wannabe: Confessions of a Failed Bibliophile by Badgwendel
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Desert Island Discs on Noel Streatfeild
Umbrella Academy (2019- TV series)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy
The Vicarage series by Noel Streatfeild
At Freddie’s by Penelope Fitzgerald
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield’s Diary of a Provincial Lady
Ballet Shoes (1975 TV mini series)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC series)
Dancing on My Grave by Gelsey Kirkland
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Inspired by Dorothy B. Hughes’s noir novel Ride the Pink Horse, we’re exploring the fascinating history of merry-go-rounds in life and literature. And speaking of horses, we share feedback from listeners who wrote in regarding Episode 28, A Short History of Riding Saddle.
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Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
Strangers on a Train (1951 film)
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999 film)
Carousels in Paris: A Complete Guide
“Beneath the Paint: One Man’s Trip Through an Old Carousel’s Distant Past” (NYTIMES)
Los Angeles Zoo Merry-Go-Round
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 28: A Short History of Riding Side Saddle
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It’s a mystery to us why novelist Dorothy B. Hughes isn’t as well known as her fellow mid-century hardboiled/noir counterparts Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. This week, we’re discussing her 1963 crime novel The Expendable Man, a psychological thriller that had us on the edge of our seat—and even questioning our own instincts.
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The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes (NYRB)
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Dark Certainty by Dorothy B. Hughes
The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes
“Queen of Noir: The Mysteries of Dorothy B. Hughes” by Molly Boyle (The New Mexican)
The Fallen Sparrow by Dorothy B. Hughes
“In a Lonely Place” by The Smithereens
Ozark (2017-present TV Series)
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Bedridden from a young age and diagnosed with the catchall term “hysteria,” Henry and William James’s sister, Alice, kept an account of her slow decline toward death in a diary that has made her something of a feminist icon. In this week’s mini, find out how she felt about the Jack the Ripper murders and why her writing wasn’t published until half a century after her death.
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New York Times book editor and returning guest Sadie Stein joins us to discuss the semi-lurid, yet weirdly wonderful 1909 novel A Girl of the Limberlost by the once wildly popular novelist and McCall's magazine columnist, Gene Stratton-Porter.
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From the 14th century’s The Boke of St. Albans by Juliana Berners to Lauren Groff’s latest novel, Matrix, join us for a discussion on falconry in literature and our fascination with these captive birds of prey.
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Novelist and university professor Joy Castro joins us to discuss Margery Latimer, an all-but-forgotten early 20th century writer whose work has been compared to D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. We’re discussing Latimer’s mind-blowingly brilliant book from 1928, We Are Incredible, as well as Latimer’s fraught friendship with another lost lady of lit, Zona Gale.
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We have so many exciting episodes lined up for 2022, but before we surge (ahem!) into the new year, we want to dish about the Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College podcast, share a roundup of other great books we’ve been reading, and give an update from a listener: Brook Ashley, Dare Wright’s godchild and author of Dare Wright and The Lonely Doll, wrote in to share some of her perspectives on Dare’s life. Happy New Year!
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Guest Judith Mackrell’s thrilling 2021 book The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II sets the stage for our discussion of wartime correspondent Virginia Cowles and her sensational 1941 memoir, Looking for Trouble, which was reissued by Faber this fall.
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It’s the ghosts of Christmas present here with a holiday mini episode featuring the Victorian short story “The Wicked Editor’s Christmas Dream,” a spoof of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Stay safe and Happy Holidays!
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Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women, published posthumously in 2015 and soon to be adapted for the screen by Pedro Almodovar. Joining us is a longtime friend of Berlin’s, the inimitable Mimi Pond, a cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
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Kim’s niece Chloe joins us for this mini episode on Esther Averill’s quirky and beloved children’s series Jenny and the Cat Club. In 1954, one of the titles, Jenny’s Birthday Book, was named The New York Times’ Best Children's Book of the Year.
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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.
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There’s always something to be thankful for, and this year, we’re especially thankful for you, our listeners! Join us as we discuss books set during Thanksgiving, and Amy reads aloud from Louisa May Alcott’s charming short story “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving.”
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Simone de Beauvoir’s lost novella The Inseparables was once deemed “too intimate” to publish. Newly found, it’s been released to great critical acclaim and we have Lauren Elkin, the translator of the UK Penguin Random House edition, with us to discuss the book and its fascinating author.
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In last week’s episode we noted that, while at Oxford in the 1920s, author Gertrude Trevelyan was the first woman to be awarded the Newdigate Prize. It was for her 250-line, blank verse poem about a perfectly-preserved young woman from ancient Rome who was discovered during the Italian Renaissance. In this week’s episode, join us as we “dig a little deeper” to find out more about the fascinating true story that inspired Trevelyan’s poem.
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Our guest Brad Bigelow’s obsession with obscure books was celebrated in the 2016 New Yorker profile “The Custodian of Forgotten Books.” He joins us to discuss groundbreaking, but now forgotten, English novelist G.E. Trevelyan and her wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia.
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Lost ladies of the supernatural, the terrifying, and the macabre rise from the dead for our spooktacular discussion with Dr. Melanie R. Anderson and Dr. Lisa Kröger, authors of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction and hosts of the “Know Fear Cast” podcast. Happy Halloween!
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New York Times-bestselling author Amy Sohn joins us to discuss the fascinating life of Ida Craddock, a self-taught Victorian sex expert, occultist, and writer of “marriage guides” who was harassed by vice hunter Anthony Comstock. Craddock is just one of the incredible women featured in Sohn’s new book The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age.
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From Mr. Darcy and billet doux to buzzkill chaperones and dumb cake (it’s a thing), we take a closer look at courtship in the Regency Era and answer the pertinent question, “Would you ever appear on a Regency Era-style dating show?” See if our answers surprise you in this week’s mini. Admit it, though: we already had you at “Mr. Darcy,” didn’t we?
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The eccentric Victorian-era novelist Ouida wrote more than 40 novels and hobnobbed with literary notables such as Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, and Wilkie Collins. Critic and wit Max Beerbohm called her “one of the miracles of modern literature,” while other critics dubbed her high-society stories “depraved.” We discuss her wildly decadent life and one of her most popular—and equally decadent—novels, Moths.
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In this week’s mini, Amy and Kim discuss the fascinating life and work of “Lonely Doll” series creator, Dare Wright, whose biography and seemingly innocent children’s books both have dark undertones.
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Emma Wolf, the first American Jewish writer to be published by the most important presses of her time, lived a life of privilege in upper-middle-class San Francisco society at the turn of the 20th century. Sarah Seltzer, executive editor of Lilith Magazine, joins us this week to discuss the once-popular author and her debut novel of 1892, Other Things Being Equal, which tackles “the marriage plot” — with an interfaith twist.
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Thanks to our incredible guests and our equally incredible listeners, we’re celebrating our one-year anniversary! It’s been a year of fabulous conversation, thrilling book discoveries, a whole lot of laughs, and even some unexpected guests--as you’ll hear about in this mini. We really appreciate all of you who’ve joined us on this journey, and we have many more lost ladies waiting in the wings to meet you!
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In this week’s episode, our guest is Lucy Scholes, author of the monthly column Re-Covered for The Paris Review and host of the Ourshelves podcast from Virago Press. We discuss Rosamond Lehmann’s wonderful 1927 debut novel, Dusty Answer. Incredibly popular in its day, this book also caused quite the scandal—which we tell you all about, of course!
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Whether in fiction or in real life, the relationship between literary sisters can range anywhere from the incredibly productive to the—let’s face it—downright psychotic. Join us as we discuss some lesser known literary sisters and reveal next week’s lost lady!
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Virginia Woolf wrote that “All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn… for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.” We’ll be letting our metaphorical flowers fall for England’s first professional female writer, Behn, in this episode with guest Dr. Sarah Raff, an associate professor of English at California’s Pomona College. Learn more about the Restoration era author’s progressive views on motherhood, marriage, and sexual politics as well as her intriguing personal history as we discuss her Tarantino-esque novel The History of a Nun or The Fair Vow Breaker.
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Just in time for what’s potentially the most anticipated back-to-school season ever, we go beyond John Knowles’s A Separate Peace and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to discuss books by women about boarding schools (and school in general). We also compare what we’ve read with Amy’s real-life all-girls’ Catholic school experience and Kim’s imaginary one.
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Sisters Jane and Mary Findlater were literary celebrities in their day and counted the likes of Henry James, Virginia Woolf and Rudyard Kipling among their admirers. We’ll be discussing one of their joint efforts, Crossriggs, which is considered their finest work. Joining us are Hollywood screenwriting sisters Julie and Shawna Benson who worked on the CW’s critically-acclaimed series The 100 and Netflix’s Wu Assassins.
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Think you know everything there is to know about Louisa May Alcott? Test your knowledge on this week’s mini episode as we chat with the hosts of the new Alcott mini-series podcast Let Genius Burn. Jamie and Jill are Alcott experts, and in our conversation they reveal five surprising things you might not know about Little Women’s famed author. Plus, Jamie will share secrets from her experience as an Orchard House guide, and we’ll clue you in on next week’s Lost Lady of Lit!
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Edna Ferber’s So Big was the top-selling novel of 1924 and it won a Pulitzer Prize, yet it’s little known now! Wildly popular in its day, So Big was adapted for film three times, the second of which (in 1932) starred Barbara Stanwyck and featured a young Bette Davis in one of her earliest roles. Join us for a discussion of the book and the 1932 film with Dr. Caroline Frick from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at University of Texas, Austin.
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If you love the Golden Age of cinema, this one’s for you! Two of the hosts from the fun new YouTube show Disaster to the Wench join us for this week’s mini episode. A mashup of TV’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 and TCM (Turner Classic Movies), with a twist of Ms. magazine, Disaster to the Wench is a sassy and feminist real-time commentary of classic Hollywood films like Rain starring Joan Crawford and The Strange Love of Martha Ivers starring Barbara Stanwyck.
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The Washington Post called Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun “one of a handful of great American plays—it belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and The Glass Menagerie.” Join us as we discuss A Raisin in the Sun and the remarkable life and work of its author with guest Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert, whose critically-lauded new biography Radical Vision uncovers key details about Hansberry’s activism and contextualizes her importance within the Black radical movement.
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Born a generation before Mary Wollstonecraft, seventeenth-century English philosopher Mary Astell wrote the groundbreaking works A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, her plea and plan for the education of women, and an indictment of early modern marriage called Some Reflections upon Marriage. Her work was praised by contemporaries, including Robinson Crusoe author, Daniel Defoe. In this week’s mini episode, find out more about Astell and why we should all know who she is.
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Edith Lewis’s editorial input helped shape Willa Cather’s writing for almost four decades—and for that same length of time, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis were life partners, too. Their relationship was tacitly accepted during their lifetime, only to be erased (along with Lewis’s legacy) in the second half of the 20th century. Join us as we bring Lewis back into the picture with this week’s guest, Dr. Melissa Homestead, author of The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis.
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If you type “Judith Love Cohen” into your search bar, the headlines about her can be summed up in three words, “Jack Black’s mom.” But did you know she was also a prolific author, an aerospace engineer who helped the Apollo 13 mission, and, for a time, a professional ballerina in New York City? Join us for our latest mini episode, inspired by a meme that sent us down a rabbit hole of amazingness.
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Joining us from the UK this week is New York Times bestselling-writer Laura Thompson, author of the Nancy Mitford biography Life In a Cold Climate and the Mitford sisters biography The Six. Mitford’s semi-autobiographical novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are outrageously funny, as well as bitingly perceptive social satires of the British upper class. All the true Hons out there are sure to adore this episode!
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Imagine if there were a federal works program to support unemployed writers? In the 1930s, there was! In this week’s mini episode, we’re taking a look at the fascinating American Guide Series, a collection of travel guides to the United States that was part of the New Deal’s Federal Writers’ Project, employing more than 6,500 mostly unknown writers during the Depression Era. Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West were among the many authors who wrote material and collected first-person accounts for the series.
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Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard’s brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.
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After witnessing the aftermath of a notorious double murder, one of 19th century America’s most popular poetry and prose writers took up crime writing in her Atlantic Monthly essay A Memorable Murder. The subject of this week’s mini episode, Celia Thaxter grew up on a tiny island off the coast of New England, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. Later, after becoming Boston’s literary darling, she hosted friends such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sarah Orne Jewett at her father’s hotel on Appledore Island.
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Ready for some Edwardian Era YA? Set in Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Hart Lovelace’s delightful Besty-Tacy series is closely based on the author’s idyllic midwestern childhood. In this week’s episode we’re discussing the four books that span Betsy’s high school years (1906-1910): Heaven To Betsy, Betsy in Spite of Herself, Betsy Was a Junior, and Betsy and Joe with our guest, writer and editor Sadie Stein.
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If you were banished by your brother to a convent, how would you use all that “free” time? 12th-century Byzantine princess Anna Komnene put pen to paper to record her version of the family history in a 15-volume work, The Alexiad, modeled after the classic Greek epics she loved. We’ll give you the highlights of this Game of Thrones-rivaling family saga that Edmund White dubbed “an engaging document of a crucial era.”
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Peg Bracken’s bestselling 1960 cookbook The I Hate to Cook Book has been described as a mashup of Martha Stewart and Amy Sedaris. Join us as we discuss the quirky anti-cookbook that gave women permission to throw in the towel—and reach for a martini, instead—with this week’s guest, another bestselling cookbook author, Helene Siegel, who dishes on her own hilarious experiences in the culinary world.
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In this week’s mini episode, Amy confesses a “scandalous” book lover’s secret, and we discuss many things library-related, including Parker Posey in PARTY GIRL, Susan Orlean’s THE LIBRARY BOOK, and controversial librarian Anne Carroll Moore, who headed up children’s library services for the New York Public library from 1906 through 1941. Plus participate in our #nightstandchallenge by sharing a pic of your nightstand on instagram @lostladiesoflit.
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Did you know there was a controversial, now-forgotten 1888 novel written in response to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda by a writer who has been described as “the Jewish Jane Austen?” Until recently, neither did we. Join us as we talk with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith about author Amy Levy and her stunning, sardonic novel Reuben Sachs, which fan and friend Oscar Wilde deemed a classic.
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“I was a writer before I met him, and I have been a writer for 45 years since. Why should I be a footnote to someone else’s life?” said author Martha Gellhorn of ex-husband Ernest Hemingway. We couldn't agree more, and that’s why we devoted this week’s mini episode to learning more about the life of this fantastically courageous war correspondent and novelist who was admired by the Roosevelts, friends with H.G. Wells, and the only woman on the scene for the D-Day invasion at Normandy.
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In this week’s episode we discuss Jocelyn Playfair’s A House in the Country. Written in 1944—when an Allied victory was still far from certain—the story is set at Brede Manor, a fine Georgian house that is hosting displaced wartime lodgers. The novel is a lovely elegy on the human experience and finding meaning in strange, dark times. In other words, highly relatable.
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This week’s mini is in homage to last week’s trailblazing Lost Lady of Lit, Charmian Kittredge London, who was among the first wave of women to eschew riding side saddle. Join us as we take a closer look at the fascinating history of this unsafe practice that had its origins in the Middle Ages.
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If you don’t know anything about author Charmian Kittredge London, you’ll be fascinated by her after this episode! She was every bit as fearless—arguably more so—as her famous husband, Jack London, and she was the driving force behind their 1907 sailing adventure across the South Pacific on the Snark. Unfairly relegated to his larger-than-life shadow, Kittredge’s story is compelling on its own terms, as we learn from this week’s guest, Kittredge London biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle.
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Join Amy and Kim for their latest mini episode as they take a trip down memory lane to tell the story of their bff “meet cute.” No surprise, there’s a direct throughline to PBS’s Masterpiece series and the BBC, as well as a wish list of books by women that Kim and Amy would love to see adapted. Join the conversation @lostladiesoflit or send them an email via LostLadiesofLit.com.
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Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s light Victorian-era romances were known throughout the English-speaking world, and her novel Molly Bawn was even name dropped in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Join us to find out why in a discussion with guest Jessica Callahan, Hallmark Channel exec and former editor of romance and mystery novels at Penguin Group.
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Join Amy and Kim for their latest mini episode as they dish on the upcoming HBO series The Gilded Age and the era that’s synonymous with lavish prosperity and conspicuous consumption. We’ll also discuss Edith Wharton’s The Buccaneers and her real-life inspiration, Consuelo Vanderbilt. Plus, find out which Irish romance novel is featured in our next episode. Hint: It’s mentioned in the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses.
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The New York Times called The Green Parrot "A strange and beautiful story, with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth-century snuff box.” That’s just one of the many reasons Amy and Kim couldn’t wait to discuss the provocative and brilliant author Princess Marthe Bibesco and her 1924 gem of a novel. Joining them is this week’s guest, book publicist and jewelry designer Lauren Cerand.
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In their latest mini episode, Amy and Kim do some spoiler-free dishing on the hit Netflix series Bridgerton before digging up the dirt on the delightfully-named Mrs. Crackenthorpe, a real-life, 18th-century gossip writer reminiscent of Bridgerton’s scandal-loving Lady Whistledown. Plus, find out about the new anthology L.A. Affairs: 65 True Stories of Nightmare Dates, Love at First Sight, Heartbreak & Happily Ever Afters in Southern California, out this month from the Los Angeles Times. It includes Amy’s essay, “Searching for Mr. Darcy.”
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Amy and Kim go decidedly more Galentine’s Day than Valentine’s Day with an episode dedicated to Marjorie Hillis and her bestselling 1936 self-help guide celebrating the single life, Live Alone and Like It. This week’s guest is author and cultural critic Joanna Scutts, whose book The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It examines Hillis’s remarkable life and reclaims her legacy. Learn more about Hillis’s trajectory from spinster pastor’s daughter to glamorous New Yorker, and how she empowered Depression-era women to cultivate style and sophistication on their own terms.
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In this week’s mini episode, Amy and Kim discuss a lost lady of the art world, Rosa Bonheur. Statesmen, celebrities, and royalty all gushed over this 19th-century painter and international superstar, and you will too when you hear her amazing life story, which includes a pet lioness and a permit for cross-dressing, among other dazzling anecdotes. Plus, find out Bonheur’s connection to the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and learn which author and book will be featured on the next episode of Lost Ladies of Lit.
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In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim discuss Louise Fitzhugh and her groundbreaking children’s book Harriet the Spy with Fitzhugh biographer Leslie Brody and Brody’s editor Laura Mazer. Though many people know of Harriet the Spy, they typically don't know much about Fitzhugh—until now. Brody’s new book on Fitzhugh, Sometimes You Have to Lie (Seal Press), received rave reviews from The Boston Globe and The New York Times, among others. As a children’s book author and a lesbian, Fitzhugh had to keep a low profile with the 1960s-era reading public, but in her private life, she was an unabashed renegade, just like her genre-busting heroine, Harriet. Join Amy and Kim as they find out more about her life story and how it influenced her writing of this beloved children’s novel.
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In this week’s mini episode, Amy and Kim tell us how they really feel about widely-loved and critically-acclaimed books such as My Brilliant Friend; Romola; The Lord of the Rings; Infinite Jest; Dear God, It’s Me Margaret; and many more. It’s all in good fun! They’ll also share their “gateway” novels and consider whether or not their most beloved childhood classics stand the test of time. Plus, find out which author and book will be featured in the next episode.
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In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim discuss Stella Gibbons’ Nightingale Wood, a sophisticated and charmingly unorthodox 1930s-era Cinderella story chockablock with wry humor and romance, and even some saucy sexcapades! Learn more about Gibbons, who was so loved by critics that one even, infuriatingly, suggested “Stella Gibbons” was probably a pen name used by the male writer Evelyn Waugh. Her novel Cold Comfort Farm was adapted by the BBC into a 1995 film.
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In this week’s mini episode, Kim and Amy share secrets of what makes their writing partnership work. Then, join them as they turn to famous women writers such as Nancy Mitford, Isabelle Allende, Anais Nin, and more for advice on setting and accomplishing your goals and staying inspired as we, thankfully, head into a new year. Plus find out which book and author will be featured in the next episode of Lost Ladies of Lit.
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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.
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In their latest mini episode, Amy and Kim get into the holiday spirit while discussing Kate Douglas Wiggin’s The Birds’ Christmas Carol, published in 1888. Find out how Wiggin (who also wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) spent the book’s profits as well as what happened when, as a child of 11, she accidentally bumped into another Christmas Carol author, the inimitable Charles Dickens.
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In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim discuss the life and work of controversial child poet Nathalia Crane, whose poetry began receiving critical attention in 1924, when she was only 9 years old. The Janitor’s Boy and Other Poems was published when she was just 11. Was she the real thing or a brilliant hoax? Hear what Dorothy Parker and other luminaries had to say about Nathalia’s poetry and get the opinion of another 11-year old girl, Amy’s daughter, Julia, who makes a special guest appearance to read one of Nathalia’s poems.
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In this mini episode, join Amy and Kim on a virtual visit to Michigan’s Mackinac Island, one of the settings from Episode 11’s novel, Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson. Learn about the island’s secret shrine dedicated to the novel’s heroine, and find out if Amy and Kim agree on whether or not the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time, which is also set on the island, actually stands the test of time.
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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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In this week’s mini episode, Amy and Kim discuss the 15-year feud between writers Willa Cather and Episode 9’s featured author, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Get the fascinating backstory on their quarrel and decide whether you’re Team Cather or Team Canfield Fisher. Amy and Kim also talk about their comfort levels with sharing personal details in their writing and reveal the next book and author to be featured on the podcast.
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In this episode, Amy and Kim discuss Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker, one of the ten bestselling novels in the U.S. in 1924. Although not exactly a household name now, Canfield Fisher was right up there with Edith Wharton in her day. While The Home-Maker’s deep dive into child-rearing, women in the workplace, and gender roles was certainly eyebrow-raising at the time, Amy and Kim have plenty to say about the current relevance of these hot-button issues. Plus, they’ll take a look at Canfield Fisher’s very busy (and prolific!) life, and consider a lingering controversy regarding Canfield Fisher’s legacy.
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In this week’s mini episode, “Gossip & Heartbreak in the Letters of Emily Eden,” Amy and Kim discuss the letters of Lost Lady Episode 7 author, Emily Eden. The 19th century novelist traveled to India and moved in the upper echelons of England’s social sphere, which allowed her to gossip with knowledge about such notables as Lord Byron. Amy and Kim also share their thoughts on the lost art of letter writing and reveal the next book and author to be featured on the podcast.
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In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim discuss Emily Eden (1797-1869) and two of her novels, The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House. A Jane Austen fan herself, Eden’s two novels are about what happens after the “happily ever after” in an Austen novel -- In fact, some critics have called her the 19th century’s answer to Austen. Find out if she lives up to that claim, and learn more about her fascinating life hobnobbing with aristocrats and the leading political figures of the age in England and India.
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In this week’s mini episode, “If Books Could Talk,” Amy and Kim take a look at some of the current and upcoming book-related movies and TV shows for your streaming pleasure. They also reveal their favorite Dickens’ adaptations as well as the next author and book to be featured on the podcast.
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In this episode, Amy and Kim discuss Simone Schwarz-Bart’s masterpiece of Caribbean literature, The Bridge of Beyond. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray, the award-winning novel tells the story of three generations of Guadeloupean women whose lives are intertwined with the history of their people and the island where they make their home. Join Amy and Kim as they unpack some of the themes; discuss Schwarz-Bart’s use of magical realism, parables, and myths; and try to pin down what makes reading the novel such a transcendent experience.
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In this week’s mini episode, Amy and Kim unpack “what’s in a name?” -- a literary name, that is -- as they discuss what makes for a memorable character name and share their favorite names from literature. Amy also shares the story of her short-lived pandemic hobby (can you guess what it is?). Plus, Amy and Kim will announce the next author and book they’ll feature on Lost Ladies of Lit.
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Amy and Kim take a closer look at E.M. Delafield’s charming Diary of a Provincial Lady, a fictional (yet largely autobiographical) journal of an upper-middle class woman living in Devon, England. The diary was first serialized in the progressive political and literary review magazine Time and Tide before becoming a bestseller in the U.K. and the U.S. in the early 1930s. Amy and Kim also contrast and compare Delafield’s life with the diary, discuss why a book that has never been out of print isn’t more widely read today, and reveal what the tome has in common with Phoebe Waller Bridge’s Fleabag.
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In their first Lost Ladies of Lit “mini” episode, Amy and Kim make a virtual visit to one of their favorite historically literary hotspots, Concord, Massachusetts. They also discuss what they’re reading right now and why they decided to start a podcast about “lost” literature by women. Plus, Amy and Kim will announce the next author and book they’ll feature on Lost Ladies of Lit.
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Lost Ladies of Lit launches with a conversation on Mariana, the first novel by Monica Dickens (May 10, 1915 – December 25, 1992), the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. First published in 1940, and gorgeously reprinted by our favorite UK publisher Persephone Books, Mariana is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel of the “hot water bottle genre” set in the 1930s. In addition to discussing their appreciation for Mariana, Amy and Kim delve into the life of the author, who was a popular novelist in her day. They also play “casting directors” for an imaginary film adaptation of the book and chat about what else they’re reading in the midst of a global pandemic.
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A quick preview of Lost Ladies of Lit, a book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.
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