ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
Send us a textF. 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.Links: Ex-Wife by Ursula ParrottBecoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha GordonThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Sigmund FreudLost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna ScuttsThe Divorcee (1930 Film) Norma ShearerSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Angela Carter — The Bloody Chamber
Send us a textWho’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 CarterThe Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund GordonLost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 216 on Elizabeth Garver JordanLost Ladies of Lit Episode No.150 on Elizabeth SmartThe Company of Wolves trailerThe 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 CarterJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTeresa Borrenpohl incidentNights at the Circus by Angela CarterWise Children by Angela CarterSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Send us a textWhen 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 IrvineThe Lucy Irvine FoundationWelcome to Glorgious Tuga by Francesca SegalRunaway and Faraway by Lucy IrvineThe Islander by Gerald KingslandThe Secret Life of a Schoolgirl by Rosemary KingslandCastaway 1986 film trailer starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver ReedWild by Cheryl Strayed“Alone” on the History ChannelSee-Saw FilmsOne is One by Lucy IrvineThe Innocents by Francesca SegalSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie
Send us a textReligious 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 episodeThe British Library’s exhibit: Medieval Women: In Their Own WordsHighgate CemeteryFor Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzieThe Book of Margery KempeRevelations of Divine Love by Julian of NorwichBridget of SwedenLost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 164 on Christine de PizanLost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 34 on Anna KomneneLost Ladies of Lit podcast Episode No. 70 on Julian BernersSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
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Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust
Send us a textHow 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” podcastA Few Days in Athens by Frances WrightViews of Society and Manners in America by Frances WrightFrances Wright’s grave in Spring Grove CemeteryThe Marquis de LafayetteThomas JeffersonWalt WhitmanEpicurusThe StoicsNew Harmony, IndianaRobert OwenRobert Dale OwenNashoba CommunityShaker Village in Pleasant Hill, KYThe Scottish EnlightenmentThe Second Great AwakeningSupport the showFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comSubscribe to our substack newsletter. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
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