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Langston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Crisis magazine from 1919 until 1926, Fauset discovered and championed some of the most important Black writers of the early 20th century. Her own novels contributed to The New Negro Movement’s cultural examination of race, class and gender through the lens of women’s experiences. Fauset’s 1928 novel Plum Bun was republished this spring by Quite Literally Books, a new publishing venture that reissues books by American women authors. The founders, Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper, join us to discuss their mission and take a closer look at Fauset’s life and work.
Mentioned in this episode:
Quite Literally Books
Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset
The Pink House by Nelia Gardner
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 9 on Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 140 on Zora Neale Hurston
Persephone Books
Virago Books
Cita Press
The Crisis magazine
“What is Racial Passing?” on PBS’s The Origin of Everything
“The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance” by Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry
Langston Hughes
Jean Toomer
Arna Bontemps
Countee Cullen
Gwendolyn Bennett
W.E.B. Dubois
Charles Johnson
Alain Locke
Regina Andrews
The Talented Tenth
“The New Negro Movement”
Harlem Rhapsod
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Dastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bestseller, The Hidden Hand. Readers so admired this literary tomboy’s pluck that Capitola became a popular baby name for decades and inspired the name of a California town. Yet few readers today are familiar with Southworth, one of the highest-earning authors of her day (to whom Louisa May Alcott even gave a subtle nod in Little Women). Rose Neal, author of a brand new biography on Southworth, joins us this week to discuss the writer who gave 19th-century young women permission to imagine lives free from convention and restraint.
Mentioned in this episode:
E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America’s Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author by Rose Neal
The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Company of Books bookstore
Retribution by E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Deserted Wife by E.D.E.N. Southworth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Elizabeth Blackwell
Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Saturday Visitor
The National Era
John Greenleaf Whittier
Jane Swisshelm
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “Jazz Age” novel that took this country by storm. Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife, a tragicomic indictment of early 20th-century romance, brought the author immense fame and wealth at the time of its publication in 1929. Yet by her death in 1957 she was penniless and homeless, a fate she all but predicted in the cautionary commentary of her writing. Our episode on Parrott (with her biographer, Marsha Gordon) originally aired two years ago this week, and we’re marking Spring Break with an encore presentation — including some updates on efforts to make sure Parrott isn’t confined to obscurity again.
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Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha Gordon
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sigmund Freud
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts
The Divorcee (1930 Film)
Norma Shearer
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Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not the heroines from Angela Carter’s 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. The British author tackles dark, primal themes in her spin on classic fables and fairy tales, urging women to eschew victimhood, reclaim their power and bite back! Join us as we dive into this enchanted world of blood, sex and animal magnetism, and find out how Carter’s own life experiences may have prompted her to peel back the skin on tropes of subjugation.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 216 on Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No.150 on Elizabeth Smart
The Company of Wolves trailer
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
“The Box of Delights” radio program
“The Fall River Axe Murders” (or “Mise-en-Scène For a Parricide”) by Angela Carter
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Teresa Borrenpohl incident
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
Wise Children by Angela Carter
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When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, she embarked on an enthralling—and at times harrowing—year-long adventure. The result was her bestselling 1983 memoir, Castaway, a beautifully-written tale of survival. We’re diving into Irvine’s unforgettable story with special guest Francesca Segal, whose own island-centric novel, Welcome to Glorious Tuga, was recently optioned for TV by See-Saw Films.
Mentioned in this episode:
Castaway by Lucy Irvine
The Lucy Irvine Foundation
Welcome to Glorgious Tuga by Francesca Segal
Runaway and Faraway by Lucy Irvine
The Islander by Gerald Kingsland
The Secret Life of a Schoolgirl by Rosemary Kingsland
Castaway 1986 film trailer starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
“Alone” on the History Channel
See-Saw Films
One is One by Lucy Irvine
The Innocents by Francesca Segal
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Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One traveled the world in relentless pursuit of spiritual validation, while the other withdrew into a walled cell. One boldly proclaimed her visions of Christ while the other recorded quiet revelations. One authored the first autobiography in English while the other penned the first known book in English by a woman. But here’s where it gets truly fascinating: these two women actually met—a fateful encounter depicted in guest Victoria MacKenzie’s award-winning debut novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain. Join us as we discuss these two incredible women whose accounts of divine encounters were destined for rediscovery centuries after being lost to time.
Mentioned in this episode
The British Library’s exhibit: Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
Highgate Cemetery
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie
The Book of Margery Kempe
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Bridget of Sweden
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 164 on Christine de Pizan
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 34 on Anna Komnene
Lost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 70 on Julian Berners
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How do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an ostensible how-to manual in the witty didactic novel she penned at age 19, A Few Days in Athens. Wright’s radical ideas garnered her the praise of Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette and Walt Whitman, to name a few, but detractors dubbed her “The Red Harlot of Infidelity.” Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust, hosts of the 2024 podcast “Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical,” join us to discuss Wright’s historical importance and relevance to today’s political and cultural conversations.
Mentioned in this episode:
“Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical” podcast
A Few Days in Athens by Frances Wright
Views of Society and Manners in America by Frances Wright
Frances Wright’s grave in Spring Grove Cemetery
The Marquis de Lafayette
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Whitman
Epicurus
The Stoics
New Harmony, Indiana
Robert Owen
Robert Dale Owen
Nashoba Community
Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, KY
The Scottish Enlightenment
The Second Great Awakening
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One hundred years ago this week, The New Yorker published its first issue. A few months later, the magazine’s first (and for decades, only) female editor joined the staff. Katharine S. White spent the better part of the next 50 years wielding her pen and her editorial influence there, carefully tending to an ever-growing stable of talented (sometimes high-maintenance) writers and shaping the magazine into a cultural powerhouse. Biographer Amy Reading joins us to discuss White’s life, legacy and undeniable importance in the history of 20th-century American letters.
Mentioned in this episode:
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading
Katharine S. White
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
E.B. White
Katharine and E.B. White’s farm in Blue Hill, Maine
St. Nicholas magazine
American Heritage article on St. Nicholas magazine
Women authors discovered/edited by Katharine White
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 187 on Kay Boyle
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 184 on Elizabeth Taylor
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 158 on Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 168 on Mary McCarthy
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 131 on Dorothy Parker
Henry Seidel Canby
Fillmore Hyde
Harold Ross
The Mark Inside: A Perfect Swindle, a Cunning Revenge, an
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January was dismal, but we’re distracting ourselves with something shiny in this first new full-length episode of the year. Catbird Chief Creative Officer Leigh Batnick Plessner joins us to explore three works by women writers, each of whom used jewelry as a powerful storytelling device. Louise de Vilmorin, Maria Edgeworth and Dorothy Parker feature diamond earrings, friendship bracelets and a pearl necklace, respectively, to reflect the deepest desires and ambitions of the characters who wore them. We hope this little gem of an episode helps you find some beauty and meaning in challenging times.
Mentioned in this episode:
Catbird
Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
“The Bracelets” by Maria Edgeworth
“The Standard of Living” by Dorothy Parker
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 77 on Daisy Fellowes
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 39 on Nancy Mitford
Duff Cooper“Chichi Devil” (New York Times) by Christopher Petkanas
The Earrings of Madame de by Max Ophuls
Essay by Molly Haskell on The Earrings of Madame de
The Lovers and Julietta by Louise de Vilmorin
The Absentee, Castle Rackrent and Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 220 on Christina Rossetti
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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:
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
Dr. Perri Klass
George Eliot
Anthony Trollope
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Blackwoods Magazine
The Brontes
Henry James
The Best Medicine by Perri Klass
Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dorothea Brooke
The Chronicles of Barsetshire by Anthony Trollope
The Chronicles of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant
Reach Out and Read
Miss Marjoriebanks by Margaret Oliphant
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In this week's hiatus replay, 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.
Discussed in this episode: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)
Executed Renaissance
Dead Poets Society (1989 film)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006 film)
“Contra Spem Spero” by Lesya Ukrainka
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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 Mercurio and a response by Alba de Céspedes
America Ferrera speech in Barbie movie
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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 full PBS interview on Zitkála-Šá
Oral History Proj
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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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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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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
“Baby McKee”
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
“Dateline’s”
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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
Carlos Bulosan
Ray Bradbury
Tillie Olsen
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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 BurneyJane 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
A Political Biography of Eliza Haywood by Kathryn R. King
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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
Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives 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.
Discussed in this episode:
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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