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Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn
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10/19/21 • 42 min
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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Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald
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06/14/22 • 44 min
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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Elinor Glyn — Three Weeks with Hilary A. Hallett
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02/07/23 • 46 min
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.
Discussed in this episode:
Daisy, the Countess of Warwick
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Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
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10/17/23 • 44 min
Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years.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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Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
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04/23/24 • 35 min
Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was finally published four years after her death. Discovering the novel in a Cairo market some 30 years later launched acclaimed Egyptian writer Iman Mersal on a decades-long, life-altering quest to solve the many mysteries about al-Zayyat’s life, death and legacy. Mersal joins us in this episode to discuss the recent English translation of her award-winng 2019 book, Traces of Enayat, and the nexus between al-Zayyat’s story and her own.
Mentioned in this episode:
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal
The Threshold by Iman Mersal
Love and Silence by Enayat al-Zayyat
The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat
Egyptian Actress Nadia Lutfi
City of the Dead cemetery in Cairo
German Institute of Antiquities
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Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
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03/21/23 • 29 min
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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Rona Jaffe — The Best of Everything with Josh Lambert
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11/01/22 • 37 min
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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Zelda Fitzgerald — Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera
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01/30/24 • 38 min
Zelda Fitzgerald is known as “the first American flapper” and an icon of the Jazz Age, but you may be surprised to learn that beneath the glittering facade, there was substance—and literary talent. Her sole published novel, “Save Me the Waltz,” is a poignant blend of beauty and biography that draws on her complex personal narrative, including her childhood in Alabama, her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and her attempt to become a professional ballerina in Paris at the age of 25.
Joining us is Stephanie Peebles Tavera, an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University Kingsville and author of the 2022 work “(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship,” from Edinburgh University Press. An essay Stephanie wrote about Zelda and “Save Me the Waltz” will be included in an upcoming collection called “American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.”
Discussed in this episode:
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 135 on Zelda’s Paper Dolls
“Save Me the Waltz” by Zelda Fitzgerald (Handheld Press)
Helen Brent, M.D. by Annie Nathan Meyer
“This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Tender Is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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01/31/23 • 37 min
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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Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon
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10/18/22 • 32 min
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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How many episodes does Lost Ladies of Lit have?
Lost Ladies of Lit currently has 215 episodes available.
What topics does Lost Ladies of Lit cover?
The podcast is about Classics, History, Women, Writers, Podcasts, Books and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Lost Ladies of Lit?
The episode title 'Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Lost Ladies of Lit?
The average episode length on Lost Ladies of Lit is 29 minutes.
How often are episodes of Lost Ladies of Lit released?
Episodes of Lost Ladies of Lit are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Lost Ladies of Lit?
The first episode of Lost Ladies of Lit was released on Sep 1, 2020.
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