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Guest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May. Known for her groundbreaking work in comedy, screenwriting, directing, and acting, May rose to fame as part of the iconic comedy duo Nichols and May. Despite her significant contributions to films like "Tootsie" and "The Birdcage," she often chose to remain uncredited, creating an air of mystery around her achievements. Carrie Courogen provides deep insights into May's life, from her early days in improv to her film directorial debut with "A New Leaf," and her later return to Broadway, painting a vivid portrait of this enigmatic, brilliant artist.
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Marcel Duchamp created one of the most influential works of art in the 20th century. Or did he? There are some who theorize that a woman — “proto-punk” poet and Dada-ist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven — is the true genius behind the groundbreaking “Fountain” urinal sculpture that rocked the art world in 1917. Learn more about this attention-seeking baroness and the potential evidence linking her to this iconic artwork in this week’s episode. And stay for the “Dinner Party” — Judy Chicago’s monumental homage to women’s history, which includes plenty of “lost ladies” featured on this podcast!
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In this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Radclyffe Hall. Amy introduces a quirky new business idea inspired by silent disco and Shakespeare, and we invite listeners to text feedback using a new ‘text us’ feature. Plus, we tease upcoming episodes, including one on screenwriter Elaine May, and announce exclusive bonus content for Patreon members. Tune in for a mix of literary chat and listener engagement!
Discussed:
A Chance Meeting: American Encounters by Rachel Cohen
A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner (Episode 158)
The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
One Year's Time by Angela Milne
Mitz by Sigrid Nunez
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf
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Episode 158: Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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David Melville and the Independent Shakespeare Company
Marcel Duchamp's urinal sculpture and the debate over its true creator
Judy Chicago's art installation The Din
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Inspired by Barbara Comyns, who lived with an unusual assortment of pets over the years, this bonus episode explores female authors who owned pet monkeys. Amy discusses Virginia Woolf and her Nazi-disarming marmoset Mitz, Nellie Bly’s fez-wearing travel companion, McGinty, and other primates who captured the hearts of some lesser-known women writers, including Miles Franklin, Mickey Hahn, Emily Carr and Clarice Lispector.
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Barbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal parts enchanting and horrific. Joining us is Avril Horner, author of "Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence," who offers insight into Comyns' unique blend of dark humor and her empathetic portrayals of vulnerable protagonists. Graham Greene was a fan and wrote of her, “The strange offbeat talent of Miss Comyns and that innocent eye which observes with childlike simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous of occurrences, these have never, I think, before been more impressively exercised than in ‘The Vet’s Daughter.’” We discuss that novel as well as her autobiographical “Our Spoons Came from Woolworths.”
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"Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence” by Avril Horner
“The Vet’s Daughter” by Barbara Comyns
“Our Spoons Came from Woolworths” by Barbara Comyns
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Inspired by watching Caitlin Clark play in this year’s NCAA tournament, Amy is feeling uncharacteristically “sporty” in this week’s bonus episode. She’ll dive into the history of Ina Eloise Young, America’s first female sports editor at a daily newspaper whose coverage of the 1908 World Series so impressed other newspapermen covering the games that she was immediately named an honorary member of the newly-formed Baseball Writers Association. Ina’s prowess recording box scores also proves triggering to Amy, who shares her own brief tenure working for the sports section of her hometown newspaper.
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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 MersalThe Threshold by Iman Mersal
Love and Silence by Enayat al-ZayyatThe Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat
The Open Door film
Egyptian Actress Nadia Lutfi
City of the Dead cemetery in Cairo
Ludwig Keimer
German Institute of Antiquities
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Have you ever wanted to hit the “pause” button on your life and simply start over? In 2022, Anne Boyd Rioux did just that, making the bold and audacious decision to leave her job as a tenured English professor, sell all her earthly possessions and embark on a European adventure. In this episode, Anne talks to Amy about her decision to reset her life and find a new way of being in the world. Find out what Anne has learned about herself in the course of her travels and which inspiring "lost ladies" she's discovered in her recent adventures!
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An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-time O. Henry award-winner penned 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry and 11 collections of short fiction, yet too few readers today have read her work or even know her name. Returning guest Anne Boyd Rioux joins us this week to discuss Kay Boyle’s audacious life and her lasting impact on literature.
Mentioned in this episode:
Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle
Avalanche by Kay Boyle
Audacious Women, Creative Lives Substack by Anne Boyd Rioux
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayTender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
Broom literary magazine
Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle
The Armory Show of 1913
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 11 on Constance Fenimore Woolson
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 108 on Lola Ridge
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 98 on Heterodoxy
Ernest Walsh
James Joyce
Lawrence Vail
Robert McAlmon
William Carlos Williams
Marianne MooreJean Toomer
The Revolution of the Word
Raymond DuncanJoseph von Franckenstein
Five Days One Summer film starring Sean Connery
Meg, Joe, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
The Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson
“Wedding Day” by Kay Boyle
“The White Horses of Vienna” by
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In this episode Amy explores the history of the 19th-century dance craze that made political leaders nervous, religious leaders aghast, dance instructors insecure and the masses primed for revolt! From Johann Strauss Jr.'s "pop star" status to popular representations in film, we're covering everything you ever wanted to know about the "Forbidden Dance" — the waltz — and its political and cultural significance!
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In this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An outspoken, rabble-rousing poet who championed Irish independence, she stirred up members of the Young Ireland movement while writing for Dublin’s radical newspaper “The Nation” in the 1840s. Oscar may have inherited his mother’s wit, intellect and larger-than-life personality, but his later legal troubles were also preceded by her own very public and scandalous libel case.
Mentioned in this episode:The Rest is History podcast on the trials of Oscar Wilde
The Nation
“Jacta Alea Est” by Speranza
“The Poet’s Destiny” by Speranza
“The Famine Year” by Speranza
Charles Gavan DuffyMelmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
William Wilde (Oscar Wilde’s father)
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde
“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Mary Travers libel case
The grave of Lady Jane Wilde
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In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us for a lightning-round quiz pitting quotations from Elizabeth Taylor the actress vs. Elizabeth Taylor the author! Test your knowledge and join in the fun!
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FULL LENGTH EDITION!!! In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us to talk about the TWO Elizabeth Taylors! Lucy collaborated with Pushkin Press Classics on the short story collection A Different Sound, in which midcentury British novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Taylor features. In addition to discussing Taylor's writing, we'll also confab on Roger Lewis's Erotic Vagrancy, the dishy 2023 biography of film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lucy and Kim then square off in a lightning-round quiz pitting quotations from Elizabeth Taylor the actress vs. Elizabeth Taylor the author! Test your knowledge and join in the fun!
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Get ready to fall hopelessly in love with Emilie Loring, a New England native whose prolific output of richly-detailed romance novels feature the sort of charming characters and snappy dialogue reminiscent of films like The Philadelphia Story and It Happened One Night. Loring’s 30 years of commercial success continued long after her death in 1950, prompting publishers to sell ghost-written “Emilie Loring” novels that continued to sell by the tens of millions. Having read each of Loring’s novels at least 50 times each, guest Patti Bender joins us this week to talk about the author’s captivating life and work as told in her 2023 biography Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom.
00:00 Introduction to Lost Ladies of Lit02:04 Guest Introduction: Patti Bender, Emilie Loring's Biographer
05:19 Emilie Loring's Family: A Legacy of Creativity
08:15 Emilie Loring's Marriage and Early Life
10:37 Emilie's Writing Journey: Persistence and Passion
12:32 Exploring Emilie Loring's Romantic Novels
14:04 Diving into 'Uncharted Seas': An Emilie Loring Novel
22:26 The Role of Books During Difficult Times
25:35 Emilie's Legacy: Her Continued Popularity
27:28 Must-Read Loring Titles
28:45 The Hollywood Connection: Emilie's Stories and the Silver Screen
29:21 The Pulitzer Nomination
33:48 The Power of Re-reading: Emilie's Books as Comfort Food
35:15 Conclusion: The Lasting Impact of Emilie's Stories
Mentioned in this Episode
Hallmark movie Her Pen Pal
Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom by Patti Bender
Lee and Shepard Publishing
George Melville Baker’s “Among the Breakers”
Snappy Stories
Uncharted Seas by Emilie Loring
The ghosts of Stone House in Blue Hill, Maine
The Philadelphia Story
It Happened One Night
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
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Fasten on those Harry Winston jewels! With Oscar night approaching, Patreon members get “red carpet” access as Amy takes a look back at some of the films honored by the Academy over the decades which were written (or co-written) by women. Women’s representation in screenwriting categories at the Oscars has been a bit underwhelming. (Case in point: from 1940 through 1985 only three women took home a statue in the Best Original Screenplay category!) From early Hollywood classics to more recent favorites, we hope this bonus episode inspires you to go back and watch the films you know and love (or may have missed entirely!)
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Blogger, podcaster and consultant for the British Library Women Writers series Simon Thomas returns to the show to discuss Angela Milne’s 1942 novel One Year’s Time. The book follows a year in the life of a 1930s-era “bachelor girl” named Liza who lives in London. Milne, the niece of Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne, was a contributor to Punch magazine, and her snappy wit shines bright in this charming and surprisingly modern novel. Fans of the Netflix series One Day will be particularly drawn to the book’s heroine and her gorgeous-but-commitment-phobic beau.
00:00 Introduction to Lost Ladies of Lit
02:04 Introducing the Guest Speaker: Simon Thomas
03:39 Exploring Angela Milne's Early Life
05:04 Angela Milne's Career Transition to Writing
06:11 Angela Milne's Experience as a Land Girl
07:23 Angela Milne's Contribution to Punch Magazine
09:11 Diving into Angela Milne's Novel: One Year's Time
10:00 Analyzing the Characters and their Interactions
15:01 The Concept of 'Bachelor Girl' in the Novel
22:10 The Search for Security in Marriage
22:41 The Power of Words and the Fear of Rejection
23:39 The Illusion of Safety in Marriage
24:44 Liza’s Fear of Confrontation
25:43 Reading an excerpt from the novel
28:17 The Misunderstandings in Love
28:53 The Charm of Walter
31:28 The Modernity of the Story
34:25 The Journey to Republish the Book
37:27 Angela Milne's Writing Life
38:40 The Conclusion
Mentioned in this episode
One Year’s Time by Angela Milne
British Library Women Writers series
Tea or Books? podcast
Stuck in a Book blog
Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 83 on Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Lost ladies of Lit episode No. 161 on An England Travelogue
A.A. Milne
Punch magazine
Peggy Ashcroft
Land girls
Rachel Ferguson
Nöel Coward
“A Woolworth Wedding” by R.P. Weston and Burt Lee
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In this bonus episode, Amy follows the clues to learn more about writer Anna Katharine Green (a.k.a "The Mother of the Detective Novel") whose late 19th-century mysteries inspired the likes of Agatha Christie and last week's "lost lady," Carolyn Wells. Green's 1878 debut novel The Leavenworth Case was an instant bestseller and features a sophisticated understanding of C.S.I and the legal system. Guest Rebecca Rego Barry helps weigh in on this pioneer of the detective-novel genre.
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A pioneer of the detective/mystery genre who began writing locked-room mystery novels a decade before Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells was a turn-of-the-twentieth century celebrity who counted Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Mark Twain among her many famous friends and fans. Guest Rebecca Rego Barry, whose new book is The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations Into a Forgotten Mystery Author, joins us to discuss Wells and her 1936 detective novel, Murder in the Bookshop.
Discussed in this episode:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Anna Katharine Green
The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author by Rebecca Rego Barry
Agatha Christie
Fine Books and Collections magazine
Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry
From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of American Authors
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 114 On Elsie Robinson
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells
Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells
The “Patty” books by Carolyn Wells
CrimeReads.com
Murder of the Unknown Woman
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 112 on Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Ptomaine Street by Caroline Wells
Lost Ladies of Lit Patreon page
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In this bonus episode, Amy reflects on a recent trip to the Winchester Mystery House, an architecturally-unusual mansion in San Jose, California which helped inspired Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. In addition to exploring the life of Sarah Winchester and her legendary home, Kim and Amy discuss the 2018 film adaptation of Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle as well as a "haunted" music box owned by the Vermont-based author.
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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)
“(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship” by Stephanie Peebles Tavera
Helen Brent, M.D. by Annie Nathan Meyer
Paris Opera Ballet
“Zelda” by Nancy Milford
“This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Tender Is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maxwell Perkins
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