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Guest Dr. Leah Broad joins us from Oxford University’s Christ Church to discuss Quartet, her acclaimed new biography of four British composers: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen. Three of the four women were celebrities in their own day and all were incredibly talented, yet their captivating life stories and their once acclaimed compositions have been all but forgotten today. We also discuss the film Tár. 

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Our Lost Ladies of Music Spotify playlist

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad

Ethel Smyth

Rebecca Clarke

Dorothy Howell

Doreen Carwithen 

Virginia Woolf 

Queen Victoria

The Wreckers by Ethel Smyth

Emmeline Pankhurst

The March of the Women by Ethel Smyth

Lamia by Rebecca Clarke 

Henry Wood

Bishop Rock by Doreen Carwithen

Benjamin Britten

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Born to a Chinese father and a Belgian mother, Han Suyin qualified as a doctor in London before moving to Hong Kong to practice medicine. After her novel A Many-Splendored Thing was adapted into a film in 1955, she became a full-time writer. Join us to learn more about Suyin’s remarkable life and her jewel of a novella, Winter Love, first published in 1962. In it, she tells the story of “Red,” who falls passionately in love with her married classmate, Mara, during the freezing, war-ravaged London winter of 1944.

Discussed in this episode: 

McNally Editions 

Winter Love by Han Suyin (McNally Editions)

A Many-Splendored Thing by Han Suyin

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955 film)

“Dragon Ladies” by Karen Shepard (The Millions)

Lost Ladies of Lit Troy Chimneys

Lost Ladies of Lit Daddy’s Gone a Hunting

Lost Ladies of Lit They

Lost Ladies of Lit Sui Sin Far

Withnail and I 

Georgie Girl

Brokeback Mountain (film)

“Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx

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In this week’s mini, we’re talking about twins in fiction, from Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Stephen King’s The Shining to some lesser-known gems. Plus, we have a letter from a new listener who wrote to us after hearing our episode about her late mother, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.  

Discussed in this episode: 

Lost Ladies of Lit on Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales

Merchant Ivory Films

Julian Sands

A Room with a View (1985 film)

The Parent Trap (1961 film)

Lottie and Lisa by Erich Kastner

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker

Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

“The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe

Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

The Shining by Stephen King

Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Recess by Sophia Lee

Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser

ruthprawerjhabvala.com

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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 mini we discuss the renowned Yaddo Artists’ Colony and the bittersweet story of the woman who envisioned this sylvan retreat on 400 acres in Saratoga Springs, New York. Since its inception in 1926 huge names in American literature have spent time as artists in residence at Yaddo, including important writers like Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Patricia Highsmith, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Sylvia Plath, Alice Walker, and Lost Lady poet Lola Ridge. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Katrina Trask

Yaddo

Truman Capote

Edgar Allan Poe

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

Spencer Trask

Yaddo: Making American Culture by Micki McGee

Allan Gurganas

The Lady of Yaddo: The Gilded Age Memoir of Katrina Trask by Lynn Esmay

“Sorrow” by Katrina Trask

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Like the sexually-liberated Tiger Queen from her scandalous bestselling 1907 novel Three Weeks, Elinor Glyn was bold, provocative and glamourous, with a magnetism that endeared her to international readers and Hollywood celebrities alike. (She counted Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Charlie Chaplin among her personal friends.) After introducing the concept of the steamy “romance novel” to the staid Victorian world, Glyn became a pioneer of the Hollywood movie industry and shaped how romance was, and still is, portrayed on the silver screen. Joining us is Hilary A. Hallett, Director of American Studies at Columbia University and author of Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn

Mary Pickford

Gloria Swanson

Rudolph Valentino

Charlie Chaplin

Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood by Hilary A Hallet

Daisy, the Countess of Warwick

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt as Theodora

Anthony Comstock

Emma Goldman

Clara Bow

Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon

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New episodes beginning Feb 7. This episode originally aired in June 2021. Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac, and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard’s brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.

Discussed in this episode: 

The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote

 The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

James Russell Lowe

Nathanial Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry James

George Eliot

Bull Run

Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard

Temple House by Elizabeth Stoddard

Ramona Quimby

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot

“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti 

 Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco on Lost Ladies of Lit

St. Cecilia

“Tell It Slant” in VQR by Rachel Vorona Cote

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We're back with a full episode on Feb. 7. Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford’s light Victorian-era romances were known throughout the English-speaking world, and her novel Molly Bawn was even name dropped in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Join us to find out why in a discussion with guest Jessica Callahan, Hallmark Channel exec and former editor of romance and mystery novels at Penguin Group. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Ulysses by James Joyce

Edna O’Brien

Iris Murdoch

Phyllis by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare

Oscar Wilde

Frank McCourt

Maeve Binchy

Nora Roberts

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

George Bernard Shaw

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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We're back with new episodes on February 7! The New York Times called The Green Parrot “A strange and beautiful story, with the faintly arid charm of a miniature painted on the cover of a seventeenth-century snuff box.” That’s just one of the many reasons Amy and Kim couldn’t wait to discuss the provocative and brilliant author Princess Marthe Bibesco and her 1924 gem of a novel. Joining them is this week’s guest, book publicist and jewelry designer Lauren Cerand. 

Discussed in this episode: 

The Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco 

Lauren Cerand

Turtle Point Press

The Eight Paradises by Marthe Bibesco 

Prix de l'Académie Française

Marcel Proust

Prince Antoine Bibesco

Jean Cocteau

Rainer Maria Rilke

Vita Sackville West

Winston Churchill

“A Rose that Held a Princess’s Secret” (Mental Floss)

Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

High Valley Books

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

More Was Lost by Eleanor Piryani 

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Sofia Coppola

Adam Moody

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

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WE'RE BACK WITH A NEW EPISODE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023. In this week’s episode, Amy and Kim have a conversation about Sui Sin Far and her wonderful short story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), with journalist and author Victoria Namkung, who has her Master’s Degree in Asian American Studies from UCLA. Sui Sin Far, the pen name of Edith Maude Eaton, was a journalist and writer of Chinese and British descent who moved to the U.S. and began writing articles about what it was like to live as a Chinese woman in a white America. Learn more about Eaton and find out why, if you haven’t already, you should find a spot on your bookshelf for the still-very-relevant Mrs. Spring Fragrance. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Victoria Namkung 

These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung

The Things We Tell Ourselves by Victoria Namkung

Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance

Anne Boyd Rioux in Episode 11

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The Original Fairytales of The Brothers Grimm

A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna (Winifred Eaton)

Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction and Travel Writing by Edith Maude Eton

Nisei’s Daughter by Monica Sone

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Diana Chang

Jessica Hagedorn

Bharati Mukherjee

Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia

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