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WE'RE BACK WITH A NEW EPISODE ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023. In this episode, Kim and Amy have a conversation about Constance Fenimore Woolson’s novel Anne (1880) with professor and author Anne Boyd Rioux, whose biography of Woolson was named one of 2016’s ten best books of the year by The Chicago Tribune. Woolson, a close friend of Henry James, is remembered as a salacious footnote in his story, yet upon its publication, her novel Anne sold ten times as many copies as James’s Portrait of a Lady. Learn more about Woolson’s fascinating life, and find out what makes her novel one we know you’ll want to read too. 

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The Victorian era has been called the golden age of parlour games, and we share some interesting ones in this week’s mini episode. Let us know if you try any of them out by emailing [email protected] or sharing on social @lostladiesoflit. We wish you the happiest of New Years! 

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Join us for a chat about the fantastic new book from the British Library Women Writers Series, Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season. The stories in this collection run the gamut of what the holiday season encompasses from a woman's perspective and includes stories by past Lost Ladies authors E.M. Delafield and Stella Gibbons. We’ll share some of our favorites. Happy Holidays! 

Discussed in this episode: 

Simon Thomas

British Library Women Writers Series

Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

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Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is the only one of its kind to feature a racially-conscious Black heroine at its center. Dr. Leigh-Michil George, a lecturer in the English Department at Geffen Academy at UCLA, joins us to discuss the novel and its historical importance as well as its influence on Regency-era television adaptations of Sanditon and Bridgerton. 

Discussed in this episode: 

The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press)

Dr. Leigh-Michil George

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sanditon (PBS)

Bridgerton (Netflix) 

Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn

Sanditon by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennett

Caroline Bingley

Netherfield Park

Jamaica

“Black People in Britain During the Regency” (National Portrait Gallery)

“The Abolition of Slavery in Britain” (Historic UK)

Olivia Carpenter (University of York)

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We managed to contract our first cases of Covid the very same week. If there’s one silver lining, it was getting to catch up on the sort of media we always wanted to binge but never had the time. So for this week’s mini episode, we’ll fill you in on the best of our respective binges. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Lucy Worsely Investigates 

The Great 

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Talking Tudors 

The Sunshine Place

A Woman of Colour by Anonymous

Winter Love by Han Suyin

Hester by Margaret Oliphant

Two Thousand-Million Man Power by Gertrude Trevelyan

Derry Girls

Delicious

The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock

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“Criminally neglected” author Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) is credited with writing the first stream-of-consciousness novel, which launched her thirteen-volume, semi-autobiographical masterwork, Pilgrimage. Joining us to discuss Dawn’s Left Hand, the tenth book in the series, are Scott McCracken, professor of 20th century literature at Queen Mary University of London, and Brad Bigelow, the editorial coordinator for Boiler House Press’s Recovered Books series. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Dawn’s Left Hand by Dorothy Richardson

Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson

March Moonlight by Dorothy Richardson

Marcel Proust

James Joyce

ReadingPilgrimage.com

“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” by T.S. Eliot

Henry James

Boiler House Press's Recovered Books series

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For this week’s mini, we share the origin story of our writing partnership and chat about some books, TV shows, and films set in Colonial America. As ever, we’re thankful for you, our listeners! In mentioning Thanksgiving, we think it’s especially important to acknowledge that Los Angeles, where we live and record this podcast, is on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Gabrielino-Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh peoples. 

Discussed in this episode: 

Romancing the Tome

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 

The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

Easy A (2010 film)

The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)

Scene from The Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)

Lost Ladies of Lit Episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Crucible (1996 film)

Colonial House (2004 TV mini series)

The Refugees by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Village (2004 film)

The New World (2005 film)

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A newspaper columnist from the first half of the 20th century, Elsie Robinson walked away from a life of privilege in search of personal freedom, toiled in a gold mine as a single mother, and eventually hit rock-bottom before clawing her way to national success. Our guest is Allison Gilbert, an Emmy-Award-winning journalist whose latest book, written in collaboration with Julia Scheeres, is Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman.

Discussed in this episode: 

Listen, World! How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert and Julia Scheeres (Seal Press)

Benicia, CA

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

I Wanted Out! by Elsie Robinson

Lindenhurst, Brattleboro, Vermont

Northfield Mount Hermon School

Meghan Markle

Hornitos, CA

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Susanna M. Salter was a 27-year old political activist when she was placed on the 1860 Argonia, Kansas ballot as a joke. She became the first woman elected to serve as mayor in the United States and one of the first women to serve in any political office in the U.S. We learn more about her in this week’s mini. 

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Rona Jaffe was only 27 when she rose to stardom with her 1958 novel, The Best of Everything, a roman á clef about the adventures of four young, single women working in New York City’s publishing industry. Our guest is Josh Lambert, an associate professor of English and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Wellesley College. His latest book, The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature, was published in July 2022 by Yale University Press. 

Discussed in this episode:

The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe with an Introduction by Rachel Syme (Penguin Random House) 

#MeToo

The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert 

Shitty Media Men

“Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything Is Still One of Our Sharpest Portraits of Female Desire” by Michelle Moses (The New Yorker)

The Best of Everything (1959 film)

Elbowing the Seducer by T. Gertler

Dickie’s List by Ann Birstein

Rona Jaffe on Playboys’ Penthouse (YouTube)

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