It's the end of Season Two! We did it! This week we conclude our series on Ada Lovelace.

In September 1843, Ada Lovelace published her paper on the Analytical Engine in Scientific Memoirs under the title "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator.". Ada was 27 years old, an aristocratic, married mother of three children at the time. Her final published paper included seven important Notes labeled A-G that contained her observations, her assertions, and, it turns out, her legacy...she also cooked up a scheme to use her mathmatical skills to run a gambling operation to fund the building of said engine. Depsite her mother's efforts, Ada Lovelace would turn out to be just as corruptable as her notorious father, Lord Byron.

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Bromley, Allan G.. "Analytical engine." Encyclopedia of Computer Science. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., GBR, 2003, pp. 65–67.

Essinger, James. Ada's Algorithm. Gibson Square, Ltd, London, 2014.

Hammerman, Robin, and Andrew L. Russell. Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age. ACM Books. Morgan & Claypool, 2015.

Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace." BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, vol. 32, no. 3, 2017, pp. 221-234, DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2017.1325297.

Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal." Historia Mathematica, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017, pp. 202-231, ISSN 0315-0860, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.04.001.

Horvat, Robert. "Five Interesting Portraits of Ada Lovelace, the First Pioneer of Computer Science." The Rearview Mirror, November 6, 2022. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://the-rearview-mirror.com/2022/11/06/five-interesting-portraits-of-ada-lovelace-the-first-pioneer-of-computer-science/

Hughes, Matthew. "How Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Changed the World." Make Use Of, Oct 13, 2015. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ada-lovelace-day-woman-changed-face-tech/

Mayne, Ethel Colburn, and Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron. The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, from Unpublished Papers in the Possession of the Late Ralph, Earl of Lovelace. C. Scribner's Sons, 1929.

Robledo, Edqin. "What Was the First Computer?" Autodesk, Nov 8, 2022. Accessed April 6, 2024. https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/first-computer-around-century-ago/

Seymour, Miranda. In Byron's Wake. Pegasus Books, 2018.

Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1087.001.0001

Wolfram, Stephen. "Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace." Wired, December 22, 2015. Accessed April 11, 2024. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter. AU: Pan Macmillan, February 1999. ISBN 978-0-333-72436-1, retrieved 4 April 2024.

Zarevich, Emily. "When Lord Byron Tried to Buy a Twelve-Year-Old Girl." JSTOR Daily, August 9, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/when-lord-byron-tried-to-buy-a-twelve-year-old-girl/

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Ada Lovelace: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History). 2019. Hourly History.

Adams, Beverly. Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer. Pen & Sword Books Limited. 2023.

Essinger, James (2013). A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started the Computer Age. UK: Gibson Square Books Ltd.

Moore, Doris Langley. Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter. Harper & Row, 1977.

Bromley, Allan G. (1990). "Difference and Analytical Engines" (PDF). In Aspray, William (ed.). Computing Before Computers. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

Tamboukou, M. (2023). 'Ever yours, mathematically': women's letters and the mathematical imagination. Gender and Education, 35(8), 742–757. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2023.2265283

"Plot: A young wife is suddenly widowed. Left with four children. She is totally unskilled for the labor market, and deeply in debt. Her home and all she has are repossessed. However… she has one choice. She is the sole heir to a tremendous fortune. If she can deceive her dying father, and never let him know she is the mother of four children whom he would despise. "Four children are imprisoned in an upstairs room of a huge mansion. Their playground is the attic. The two older children are twelve and ten, named Christopher and Cathy. The younger two are twins, age three when they go to live upstairs.

"Without sunlight, Cory and Carrie cannot grow. Their lives become a virtual endurance test to outlive the dying grandfather, who stays always on the first floor, taken care of by a private duty nurse, and a staff of servants. "The years pass. The grandfather doesn't die. The mother marries again and gradually drifts away from her children." In her letter, Virginia emphasizes that the children's grandmother considers them "the devil's issue. Born out of unholy wedlock between half-niece and half-uncle. I call my novel, which is not truly fiction… FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC."

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The Woman Beyond The Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman

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https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/completevcandrews/recluse.htm

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/92711-becoming-v-c-andrews.html

In today's episode, we discuss VC Andrews, a writer who created her own genre of fiction and scandalized a generation of young female readers. We cover Virginia's early life, her emergence as a writer, and the real life inspiration for her most famous novel, Flowers In The Attic.

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The Woman Beyond The Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/20/blooms-of-darkness/7e133556-82cd-43a0-94a6-03738d628099/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic

https://youtu.be/J8s-P9Cy6DQ?si=zmllGBz62KkdeqYC

https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/completevcandrews/recluse.htm

When one of the smartest women in England, Anne Isabella Milbanke, fell in love with the most scandalous, and handsome, creative genius of his time, Lord Byron, the fallout was nothing less than a national scandal. Their young daughter, Ada, was caught in the crossfire. Ada spent her early childhood being used as a bargaining chip in her parents divorce, and a bitter reminder to Anne Milbanke, of Lord Byron's many betrayals. Desperate not to have her daughter turn out like her drunken, whore of an ex-husband, Milbanke insisted on Ada having the most exclusive STEM education money could buy. While Ada still showed the libertine tendencies of her father, she was almost predestined to become the Mother of Computer Science. This week, we look at the turbulent childhood and rigid education that brought Ada Lovelace right up to the doorstep of technological innovation.

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Sources:

Bromley, Allan G.. "Analytical engine." Encyclopedia of Computer Science. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., GBR, 2003, pp. 65–67.

Essinger, James. Ada's Algorithm. Gibson Square, Ltd, London, 2013.

Hammerman, Robin, and Andrew L. Russell. Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age. ACM Books. Morgan & Claypool, 2015.

Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace." BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, vol. 32, no. 3, 2017, pp. 221-234, DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2017.1325297.

Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal." Historia Mathematica, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017, pp. 202-231, ISSN 0315-0860, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.04.001.

Horvat, Robert. "Five Interesting Portraits of Ada Lovelace, the First Pioneer of Computer Science." The Rearview Mirror, November 6, 2022. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://the-rearview-mirror.com/2022/11/06/five-interesting-portraits-of-ada-lovelace-the-first-pioneer-of-computer-science/

Hughes, Matthew. "How Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Changed the World." Make Use Of, Oct 13, 2015. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ada-lovelace-day-woman-changed-face-tech/

Mayne, Ethel Colburn, and Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron. The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, from Unpublished Papers in the Possession of the Late Ralph, Earl of Lovelace. C. Scribner's Sons, 1929.

Robledo, Edqin. "What Was the First Computer?" Autodesk, Nov 8, 2022. Accessed April 6, 2024. https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/first-computer-around-century-ago/

Seymour, Miranda. In Byron's Wake. Pegasus Books, 2018.

Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1087.001.0001

Wolfram, Stephen. "Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace." Wired, December 22, 2015. Accessed April 11, 2024. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter. AU: Pan Macmillan, February 1999. ISBN 978-0-333-72436-1, retrieved 4 April 2024.

Zarevich, Emily. "When Lord Byron Tried to Buy a Twelve-Year-Old Girl." JSTOR Daily, August 9, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/when-lord-byron-tried-to-buy-a-twelve-year-old-girl/

In the conclusion of our series on Misery Lit and Literary Fraud, we discuss two more famous cases of fabricated memoir and what our conspicuous consumption of trauma porn tells us about ourselves and the cultural narratives around female suffering.

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https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/khouri-admits-lies-20040818-gdjkm0.html

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html

https://www.theage.com.au/national/khouri-the-troubled-life-of-a-fake-20040731-gdyd40.html

https://australia-explained.com.au/mavericks/helen-demidenkos-hand-that-signed-the-paper

https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/hoax/

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/from-the-archives-1995-writer-demidenko-revealed-to-be-helen-darville-20200813-p55ldc.html

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n22/peter-craven/diary

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18well.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-forrester-99jsdx093kk

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/15/childrensservices.biography

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6563529.stm

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html

Metdepenningen, Marc.Misha Defonseca's Confessions, Le Soir. Feb 29, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302203827/http://www.lesoir.be/channels/cinema/exclusif-2008-02-28-580849.shtml

Bury, Liz. Tugging at Heart Strongs. Bookseller.com 2/22/2007. Accessed March 7, 2024 via Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080804101600/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/34722-tugging-at-heart-strings.html

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/literary-hoaxes-and-the-ethics-of-authorship

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html

Lomax, John Nova. Coal Miner Mother of a Mess. Houston Press. Aug 25, 2005.

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530

On a very special episode of ILL REPUTE! we interview Ret. Constable Tom Wood of Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1983, Constable Wood was called to investigate the murder of Sheila Anderson, a local sex worker. During his investigation, he came to understand that the sex industry had changed, and so did the way they needed to police it. Tom tells us how he came to see the problem as one of public safety before criminal justice, and he met the challenge head on. While Sheila's death goes unsolved, it also saved countless lives.

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Misery Literature is a genre of memoir that details the real-life struggles and adversities of individuals, focusing particularly on themes of abuse, poverty, addiction, and survival against the odds. They are usually harrowing stories of the author's survival through complex trauma, usually told from the first person perspective, which generally end in, if not a happy conclusion, at least a ray of hope as the abuse cycle is broken...but when Tragedy becomes profitable, charlatans reach for their quills.

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https://www.theage.com.au/national/khouri-the-troubled-life-of-a-fake-20040731-gdyd40.html

https://australia-explained.com.au/mavericks/helen-demidenkos-hand-that-signed-the-paper

https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/summer09/hoax/

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/from-the-archives-1995-writer-demidenko-revealed-to-be-helen-darville-20200813-p55ldc.html

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v17/n22/peter-craven/diary

https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14718/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/books/the-unmasking-of-jt-leroy-in-public-hes-a-she.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18well.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/helen-forrester-99jsdx093kk

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jun/15/childrensservices.biography

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6563529.stm

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/garden/28jones.html

Metdepenningen, Marc.Misha Defonseca's Confessions, Le Soir. Feb 29, 2008. Accessed March 12, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080302203827/http://www.lesoir.be/channels/cinema/exclusif-2008-02-28-580849.shtml

Bury, Liz. Tugging at Heart Strongs. Bookseller.com 2/22/2007. Accessed March 7, 2024 via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20080804101600/http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/34722-tugging-at-heart-strings.html

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bestsellers-lies-exposed-20040724-gdjerm.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/literary-hoaxes-and-the-ethics-of-authorship

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html

Lomax, John Nova. Coal Miner Mother of a Mess. Houston Press. Aug 25, 2005.

https://www.houstonpress.com/music/coal-miner-mother-of-a-mess-6548530

The plague led to a drastic reduction in population, labor shortages, and social upheaval. Entire villages and towns were depopulated, and some regions saw a collapse of agricultural and economic systems. People in the 14th century had little understanding of the causes of the plague, and various responses were attempted, including quarantine measures, flagellant movements, and persecution of minority groups, such as Jews and lepers. None of these measures were effective in halting the spread of the disease. This disruption of the social and economic order created a climate of fear, uncertainty, and hardship. In times of crisis, people often sought explanations and scapegoats for their suffering, which could include the persecution of perceived outsiders and those accused of witchcraft.

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Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease by Homayun Sidky

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

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The European Witch Craze, also known as the Witch Hunts or the Witch Trials, was a period of intense persecution of individuals accused of witchcraft in Europe from the late 15th century to the 18th century.Thousands of people, primarily women, were accused, arrested, tried, and often executed as witches during this time.

The witch hunts were rooted in the belief that certain individuals, known as witches, had made pacts with the devil or evil spirits. They were believed to possess supernatural powers, including the ability to harm others, fly, shape-shift, and cast spells. Witchcraft was seen as a grave threat to society and Christianity.

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Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

Witchcraft, Lycanthropy, Drugs and Disease by Homayun Sidky

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

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This week on ILL REPUTE! Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling welcome their very first guest! Dr. Kim Tallbear is a Native scholar who literally wrote the book on Native American DNA, and has become the defacto expert on self-indigenization, more commonly known as race shifting, ethnic fraud, or pretendianism. We talk with Dr. Tallbear about what indigenous ethnic fraud is, why it's perpetrated so easily and frequently, what the fraudsters get out of it, and what we can do to disrupt it.

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https://kimtallbear.substack.com/

https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/

https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-DNA-Belonging-Promise/dp/0816665869

Works Cited:

Playing Indian

Becoming Indian

https://open.spotify.com/show/7w7liLa9F90MIdONjqoloL

Other Pretendian Cases:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/a-professor-claimed-to-be-native-american-did-she-know-she-wasnt

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/magazine/cherokee-native-american-andrea-smith.html

https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-curious-case-of-gina-adams-a-pretendian-investigation/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/michelle-latimer-kitigan-zibi-indigenous-identity-1.5845310

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-january-5-2017-1.3921340/indigenous-identity-and-the-case-of-joseph-boyden-1.3922327

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sacheen-Littlefeather-oscar-Native-pretendian-17520648.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsqCWNCUc4

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