Botanica Blackwellia

09/15/23 • 44 min

In which Anna and Judith travel back to the degenerate world of Eighteenth-century London. Expect user-focused content and design, a performance in rhyming verse and a dash of gin.
When Elizabeth Blackwell's husband ends up in a debtor's prison, she thinks writing and illustrating her own book will save the day, but it's a mammoth task.
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USEFUL LINKS
See Elizabeth's letter of introduction to Hans Sloane at the British Library.
'A Curious Herbal as Material Witness' at the Linnean Society.
'Will the Real Elizabeth Blackwell Please Stand Up?' at NYBG.
CREDITS
Recorded by Anna Faherty and Judith Watts. Edited and produced by Anna Faherty.
Incidental music: Concerti Grosso, Opus 3 No 2 in B-flat major composed by George Frideric Handel in 1734 and performed by The London Baroque Orchestra. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Sound effects: The sound of the typewriter from tams_kp on freeounds.org
Theme music: Folk guitar music track from Dvideoguy on freesound.org | Typewriter sound effect from tams_kp on freeounds.org | Print shop sound effect from ecfike on freesound.org

09/15/23 • 44 min

Bookshapers - Botanica Blackwellia

Transcript

There’s this traditional idea of a writer or artist as someone tormented by their artistic genius, but what if you need to become a writer in order to overcome some challenging personal circumstances? You’d need to focus less on artistic perfection and more on satisfying your readers.

Phenomenal, actually, that she would do all of that. In spite of her husband...

Who she definitely should have left in prison.

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