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    Novelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times review of a 1958 English edition of this novel, de Céspedes was called “one of the few distinguished women writers since Colette to grapple effectively with what it is to be a woman.”

    Discussed in this episode:

    Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes

    Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes

    Muriel Rukeyser poem “Kathë Kollwitz”

    Hell or High Water by Joy Castro

    Flight Risk by Joy Castro

    Island of Bones by Joy Castro

    One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro

    The Truth Book by Joy Castro

    “Burning It Down” by Joy Castro

    Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margery Latimer

    Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield

    Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Miriam Karpilove

    Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Lorraine Hansberry

    Literary scholar Merve Emre

    Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

    Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter

    Mercé Rodoreda

    Elena Ferrante

    Katherine Mansfield

    Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

    Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

    Natalia Ginsburg’s essay “On Women” in M

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    Books are a time-tested cure-all, so in this week’s bonus episode Amy weighs a few of the titles that have helped her forget life's latest troubles and doubts … (sort of). She leaves no stone unturned in her quest for distraction, from Proust’s meandering sentences to a behind-the-scenes memoir about a beloved ’80s film and a charming, century-old suffrage novel that captures our current political zeitgeist. Rounding out the episode is a sneak peak at “lost ladies” we’ll be featuring in the coming year and Amy’s recitation of a poem by Adrienne Rich that’s perfectly suited to these strange times.

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    Whichbook.net

    The Sturdy Oak

    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

    When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron.

    Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

    Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 116 on Dorothy Richardson

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield Fisher

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 98 on Heterodoxy

    Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson

    Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

    Turning to Stone: Discovering

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    At the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusive experience about which she eventually wrote a series of articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. Jessi Haley, editorial director of Cita Press (which just published a free anthology of the author’s work) joins Yankton Dakota poet Erin Marie Lynch to discuss how Zitkála-Šá’s sense of cultural displacement impacted her life and literary output.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Free edition of Planted in a Strange Earth: Selected Writings of Zitkála-Šá by Cita Press

    Cita Press’s Substack newsletter on Zitkála-Šá

    Removal Acts by Erin Marie Lynch

    Zitkála-Šá

    Ella Cara Deloria

    Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

    Yankton Dakota people

    Sugarcane 2024 documentary

    Air/Light magazine

    Joe Biden’s October 2024 federal apology to Indigenous Americans

    Carlisle Indian Industrial School

    Richard Henry Pratt

    Earlham College

    The Sun Dance Opera

    PBS’s “Unladylike” documentary episode on Zitkála-Šá

    Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

    “Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Legalized Robbery” by Zitkála-Šá

    P. Jane Hafen’s

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    Forget your troubles, get cozy, grab a cup of tea and curl up to this week’s “storytime” bonus episode as Amy reads the third tale from Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses. Follow Rossetti’s indefatigable heroine, Maggie, who trudges wearily through a snowy forest at Christmas-time, encountering along the way strange children who attempt to lead her astray.

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    Charmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed suit nearly a decade later with her own children’s book — one that alludes to the “Alice” tale while also offering a more clear-eyed view of girls’ duties, even in topsy-turvy dream worlds. Ayana Christie, Chief Product Officer of Bond & Grace, joins us for a discussion this week on Rossetti’s 1874 work Speaking Likenesses and helps us draw comparisons with Carroll’s seminal tale.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti

    Bond & Grace edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Bond & Grace edtiion of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Bond & Grace edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Christina Rossetti

    “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti

    Gabriele Rossetti

    Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    The Rosetti family photographic portrait by Lewis Carroll

    Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life by Jan Marsh

    Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson)

    The Liddell sisters

    The real-life Alice in Wonderland

    The Princess Bride film

    “Be Our Guest” number from Beauty & the Beast

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    When it comes to this year’s fall fashion, Virginia Woolf is having a moment. A number of designers and brands including Anna Sui, Clare Waight Keller, Miu Miu, Burberry and Tod’s have found their inspiration in the iconic Bloomsbury author. In this week’s bonus episode, Amy dives into this sartorial vibe, reads from Woolf’s short story “The New Dress” and muses over which other “lost ladies” could serve as fashion muses.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    “A Woolf in Chic Clothing” by Fiorella Valdesolo

    Uniqlo’s C Collection

    Clare Waight Keller’s 2020 Givenchy spring/summer line runway show

    Anna Sui’s Fall 2024 line

    Charleston House

    Vanessa Bell

    Intentional Clutter design trend

    Vanity Fair article on Virginia Woolf as fashion influencer

    “The New Dress” by Virginia Woolf

    Orlando by Virginia Woolf

    Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

    J.J. Wilson

    Mary McFadden

    The Tale of Genji

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 149 on Murasaki Shikibu

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 130 on Han Suyin

    Lost Ladies of Lit

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    Margaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie Mullins, whose 2024 nonfiction work The Book of Mothers explores literary depictions of motherhood, joins us to discuss Drabble’s fearless protagonist, Rosamund. Together, we explore how The Millstone captures the joys and burdens of motherhood, and how Drabble’s sharp, ahead-of-its-time portrayal speaks to contemporary readers.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood by Carrie Mullins

    The Millstone by Margaret Drabble

    A Touch of Love starring Sandy Dennis and Ian McKellan

    A.S. Byatt

    Cambride Ladies Dining Society

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 139 on Heartburn by Nora Ephron

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    “Little Women” and the Marmee Problem

    The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    Pride & Prejudiceby Jane Austen

    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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    In this week’s bonus episode Amy discusses the black comedy mystery film Wicked Little Letters starring Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley, then hones in on the real-life "poison-pen letter" incident the film is based on.

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    British Airways in-flight safety film

    Wicked Little Letters trailer

    The Lost Daughter film

    The Lost Daughter novel

    Waking Ned Devine

    Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

    National Archives Littlehampton Libel Case

    Cheek By Jowl: A History of Neighbours by Emily Cockayne

    Penning Poison: A Hisotry of Anonymous Letters by Emily Cockayne

    Poison pen letter case in Shiptonthorpe, Yorkshire

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    Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career as a journalist, fiction writer and literary editor still resonates today. Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr, editors of a brand new collection of Garver Jordan’s work, join us this week to discuss her courtroom dispatches, her connection to today’s #MeToo movement and how her “invisible labor” shaped the writing of literary giants like Sinclair Lewis and Henry James.

    Mentioned in this Episode:

    The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan

    Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s work:

    The Sturdy Oak

    The Whole Family

    The Lady of Pentlands

    Three Rousing Cheers

    “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment”

    “The Cry of the Pack”

    The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson

    Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf

    The New York World

    Nellie Bly

    The Lizzie Borden case

    The Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass.

    Harper’s Bazaar

    Harper and Brothers

    The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary by Lori Harrison Kahan

    Amish Rumspringa

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    The bob haircut shocked and appalled when it was popularized in the 1920s. A bob devotee herself, Amy has a laugh in this week’s bonus episode as she reads newspaper reports from the era which blame the hair trend for a wide array of societal ills including economic collapse, bigamy and unwanted facial hair. She’ll also read an excerpt from the F. Scott Fitzgerald story, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1920. This episode is exclusively available for those with a paid subscription to Lost Ladies of Lit.

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    The Press Gallery by Paul Fairie

    “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Lucy Worsley

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    Growing up on the Great Plains and witnessing the struggles of migrant workers in California made Sanora Babb uniquely qualified to write the story of the Dust Bowl. Her novel Whose Names Are Unknown was slated for publication by Random House in 1939 until The Grapes of Wrath beat her book to the punch. John Steinbeck actually used Babb’s notes and research to write his Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, but did he get the story right? Iris Jamahl Dunkle, author of a new biography on Babb, joins us to explain why this long-lost “Dust Bowl” novel (finally published in 2004) deserves more recognition.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

    Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb

    Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer by Iris Jamahl Dunkle

    West: Fire: Archiveby Iris Jamahl Dunkle

    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 152 on Janet Lewis

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 27 on Charmian Kittredge London

    The Dust Bowl a film by Ken Burns

    The Girl by Meridel Le Seuer

    The Lost Traveler by Sanora Babb

    An Owl on Every Post by Sanora Babb

    Tom Collins

    Ralph Ellison

    William Saroyan

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    Look closely enough, and you can find “lost ladies of lit” almost anywhere — including at a rock concert! In this week’s bonus episode, Amy explains how a Saturday night spent attempting to sing along with Green Day on their world tour concert stop in Los Angeles started her down a lyrical rabbit hole that led to the writer Lakshmi Kannan. Learn how this Indian author’s feminist poem inspired a hit song on the band’s breakout album and why both the poem and song stir up familiar themes from this podcast.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    “She” by Green Day’

    “The Saviors Tour”

    Billy Joe Armstrong

    Lakshmi Kannon

    Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

    Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 159

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    Details of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays and bestselling novels, editing periodicals, and ruffling the feathers of male contemporaries like Alexander Pope. Academic Kelly J. Plante joins us this week to discuss Haywood’s anonymous wartime writing for The Female Spectator, the first periodical written by and for women, as well as her 1751 novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Kelly J. Plante’s recent scholarship on Eliza Haywood in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

    Eliza Haywood:

    Love in Excess

    Fantomina

    The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless

    The Female Spectator: Book 14, Letter 1

    The Parrot

    Epistles for the Ladies

    Samuel Richardson:

    Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded

    Clarissa; or the History of a Young Lady

    Daniel Defoe:

    Robinson Crusoe

    Alexander Pope:

    The Dunciad

    Henry Fielding:

    The History of Tom Jones


    Frances Burney

    Jane Austen

    The Sound of Music’s “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”

    “The Things We Do For Love” by 10cc

    Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 49 on Aphra Behn

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    Amy springboards off our discussion of last week’s “lost lady,” Mary MacLane, to further investigate the woman whose diary inspired her. From the age of 12 until her death at 25, Russian-born painter Marie Bashkirtseff detailed her daily life, frustrations, flirtations and family drama. First published in 1887, the diary enthralled readers including British Prime Minister William Gladstone and George Bernard Shaw, while future diarists like Anaïs Nin and Katherine Mansfield were also inspired by Bashkirtseff’s musings. Amy reads excerpts in this week’s bonus episode to give listeners a glimpse into the world of a precocious young artist in late-19th-century Paris.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    Brat Summer explained

    Belvedere Museum

    Marie Bashkirtseff

    The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff translated by Katherine Kernberger and Phyllis Howard Kernberger

    “In the Fog” by Marie Bashkirtseff

    “In the Studio” by Marie Bashkirtseff

    “Self-portrait with Palette” by Marie Bashkirtseff

    I Await the Devil’s Coming by Mary MacLane

    George Bernard Shaw

    William Gladstone

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    Long before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary implored the “kind devil” to deliver her from a life of bourgeois boredom. Professor Cathryn Halverson from Sweden’s Södertörn University joins us for this episode to discuss MacLane’s life, angst and the reading public’s reaction to her adolescent intensity.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    I Await the Devil’s Coming/The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane (Project Gutenberg)

    MTV’s “My So-Called Life”

    Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

    Herbert S. Stone & Co.

    Marie Bashkirtseff

    The Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff: I am the Most Interesting Woman of All Volume I and Lust for Glory Volume II

    Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

    “Men Who Have Made Love to Me”

    I, Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane

    Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly by Cathryn Halverson

    Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West by Cathryn Halverson

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    HIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to discuss Fisher and her World War II-era book How to Cook a Wolf, which was an attempt to teach people how to eat well and be well amidst personal and collective chaos.

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    An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher by Anne Zimmerman

    How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher

    Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Peg Bracken

    The Art of Eating Well by M.F.K. Fisher

    “The Wolf at the Door” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Gastronomical Me by M.F.K. Fisher

    Schlesinger Library at Harvard

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    As Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and speak truth to power. The Nazis dubbed her “that dragon from Chicago,” and her importance as an indomitable “newspaperman” (her term) telling Americans about the Third Reich's agenda can’t be understated. Amy speaks this week with Pamela Toler, the author of a new biography on Schultz’s life, work and lasting legacy.

    Mentioned in this episode:

    The Dragon From Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany by Pamela Toler

    Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela Toler

    Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War by Pamela Toler

    The Chicago Tribune

    McCall’s Magazine

    Friederich Ebert

    Hermann Goering

    Joseph Goebbels

    Hotel Adlon

    Richard Henry Little, a.k.a. Dick Little

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

    Erik Larson’s In The Garden of Beasts

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    HIATUS ENCORE: Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porters’ books took Regency-era England by storm just a few years ahead of Jane Austen, and their lives were chock-full of fascinating (and insufferable) characters, intriguing romantic escapades, event-filled interludes at the homes of wealthy acquaintances and desperate gambits to stay one step ahead of the poverty line. Joining us is ASU Regents Professor of English, Devoney Looser, whose new book is Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontes. Kirkus Reviews calls it “a triumph of literary detective work.”

    Discussed in this episode:

    Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontes by Devoney Looser

    Devoney Looser

    Jane Austen

    Sir Walter Scott

    Braveheart (1995 film)

    Artless Tales by Anna Maria Porter

    The Dashwood Sisters

    “L'Allegro” by John Milton

    “Il Penseroso” by John Milton

    Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

    The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

    The Hungarian Brothers by Anna Maria Porter

    Queen Victoria

    Andrew Jackson

    Emily Dickinson

    Waverly by Sir Walter Scott

    “The End of the English Major” (The New Yorker, 2/27/2023)

    Sophia Lee's The Recess

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    Amy discusses the good and bad of audiobook narration in this week’s bonus episode, then dives into the origins of the commercial audiobook industry. Founded in 1952, Caedmon Records was the brainchild of two young women who achieved their smash debut success by convincing Dylan Thomas to record himself reading some of his most popular work, including “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.” The recording company went on to record LPs of work by a wide array of literary stars, including Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien, thus paving the way for today’s burgeoning audiobook market.

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    HIATUS ENCORE: 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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