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Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia. We're joined in this encore episode by guest Brad Bigelow, whose obsession with obscure books was celebrated in the 2016 New Yorker profile “The Custodian of Forgotten Books.” 

Discussed in this episode: 

Appius and Virginia by G.E. Trevelyan

Every Which Way But Loose (1978 Film)

Black Mirror

The Twilight Zone

NeglectedBooks.com

“The Custodian of Forgotten Books” (The New Yorker)

His Monkey Wife by John Collier

Dorothy Richardson

May Sinclaire

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Room by Emma Donohue

Bear by Marian Engel

Oxford’s Lady Margaret Hall

Newdigate Prize

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 

Hot-House by G.E. Trevelyan

“If She Was a Bloke, She’d Still Be In Print” (The Guardian)

Virginia Faulkner

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 41 on Edith Lewis with Melissa Homestead

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