Lost Ladies of Lit

By Amy Helmes & Kim Askew

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 supp

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October 25, 2022 May Agnes Fleming — The Midnight Queen with Brian Busby
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Gothic thriller The Midnight Queen (1863) was written by May Agnes Fleming, a prolific Canadian author who specialized in churning out binge-worthy books, making her one of the nation’s first best-selling authors. Our guest is Canadian literary historian and author Brian Busby of The Dusty Bookcase.
Discussed in this episode:
The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming
The Dusty Bookcase

Alexandre Dumas
L.M. Montgomery
The New York Mercury
Philadelphia’s Saturday Night
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Marion, the Story of an Artist’s Model by Winnifred Eaton
Brad Bigelow and Neglected Books
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Do Evil in Return by Margaret Millar
The Untempered Wind by Joanna E. Wood
Kamouraska by Anne Héber
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October 18, 2022 Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon
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Author Alena Dillon joins us for this week’s mini to discuss the medical treatment of women and mothers and how it’s evolved over time. We’ll touch on hysteria, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and some of the things that surprised us about giving birth.
Discussed in this episode:
Eyes Turned Skyward by Alena Dillon
Amy Schumer
My Body Is a Big, Fat Temple by Alena Dillon
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Tokology: A Book for Every Woman Alice B. Stockham
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Ida B. Craddock with Amy Sohn
For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English
“Maternal Instinct is a Myth that Man Created” by Chelsea Conoboy (NYTimes)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Rachel Vorona Cotes
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cotes
“Abortion was once common practice…” (NPR)
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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October 11, 2022 Anne Hampton Brewster — St. Martin’s Summer with Etta Madden
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Anne Hampton Brewster’s florid 1866 novel St. Martin’s Summer is set mostly in Italy and inspired by her experiences as a young, single American woman on her European grand tour. Brewster, who became one of America's first female foreign correspondents, is also one of the fascinating women profiled in our guest Etta Madden’s recent book Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks.

Discussed in this episode:
St. Martin’s Summer by Anne Hampton Brewster
Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta Madden
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson with Anne Boyd Rioux
Discussed in this episode:
St. Martin’s Summer by Anne Hampton Brewster
Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta Madden
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson with Anne Boyd Rioux

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October 04, 2022 Lola Ridge with Terese Svoboda
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Lola Ridge was once considered one of America's preeminent poets, on par with E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Jean Toomer, and Robert Frost. We discuss the radical life and career of this early 20th century modernist poet, anarchist, and literary editor with guest Terese Svoboda, whose 2018 biography of Ridge was described as “magisterial” in The Washington Post.

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Discussed in this episode:
Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge, Radical Poet by Terese Svoboda
Firehead by Lola Ridge
Emma Goldman
Ferrer Center
Francisco Ferrer
The Ghetto, and Other Poems by Lola Ridge
Sacco and Vanzetti
Guggenheim Fellowship
Shelley Memorial Award
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts
Hilda Dolittle (H.D.)
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
Others: A Magazine of New Verse
Broom Magazine
Matthew Josephson
Gertrude Stein
Margaret Sanger
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Katherine Anne Porter
“Street Poet” by Robert Pinsky (Slate)
Sun Up and Other Poems by Lola Ridge

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September 27, 2022 Cabinets of Curiosities & The Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Cue the Twin Peaks theme music. In this week’s mini, we take a Lynchian detour to discuss the book Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler and share our mutual love for L.A. 's weirdly wonderful Museum of Jurassic of Technology and other strange museums around the world.
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Discussed in this episode:
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago
Freakatorium
Julia Bulette Red Light Museum in Virginia City
Museum of Torture in Tuscany
Funeral Carriage Museum in Barcelona

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September 20, 2022 Helen Cromwell — Good Time Party Girl with Christina Ward
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Following her straight-laced Edwardian-era upbringing, “Dirty” Helen Cromwell became a call girl-turned-madame, bootlegger, and legendary speakeasy owner. The life of every party, she counted Al Capone among her many famous friends. Our guest is Christina Ward, who reintroduced the world to Cromwell’s unputdownable memoir Good Time Party Girl: The Notorious Life of Dirty Helen Cromwell 1886-1969.

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September 13, 2022 Odds & Ends
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In this week’s mini episode, we share some interesting odds and ends related to recent episodes, including a “no, she didn’t!” letter by lost poet Debora Vogel as well as letters from our listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in! We appreciate every single one of you.
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September 06, 2022 Miriam Michelson — The Superwoman with Lori Harrison-Kahan
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Before she became a bestselling fiction writer whose work was deemed “catchy as ragtime,” Miriam Michelson made a name for herself as a “girl reporter” covering crime and politics for a major San Francisco paper. Professor Lori Harrison-Kahan, who edited 2019’s The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson, joins us to discuss Michelson and her 1912 feminist utopian novella The Superwoman.
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August 30, 2022 Laura Valentine -- The Secret Shakespeare Editor
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In today’s mini episode, we talk about a lady novelist who is also thought to have secretly edited a Victorian-era edition of Shakespeare that eventually sold over 340,000 copies.
Shakespeare’s Lady Editors by Molly G. Yarn

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August 23, 2022 Margaret Kennedy — Troy Chimneys
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We think both Freud and Jane Austen might approve of one-time bestselling novelist and Austen biographer Margaret Kennedy’s delightfully clever 1953 historical novel, Troy Chimneys. Recently republished by McNally Editions, it’s written in the Regency style and from the perspective of a male hero with dueling personalities.

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