She Speaks Volumes

She Speaks Volumes is created by Daniella Sorrentino

CREDITS:

Voice-Actors + Narrators

Margaret Alice Murray, excerpts from witchcraze read by Verna Sorrentino

Scottish Witches: Marnie Thompson, JP Wright, Susan Harden

Joan of Arc: @katsuky

Interviews with:

Yvonne Owens

Dr Liz Williams

LINKS TO PURCHASE or READ BOOKS REFERENCED: detailed bibliography below.

Witch Cults in Western Europe

Witchcraze

Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art

Miracles of Our Own Making

BBC Bitesize. “Case Study: James vi and the North Berwick Witch Hunt.” Accessed May 29, 2023. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj77xbk/articles/zmr6hcw.

Dictionaries of the Scots Language. “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” n.d. https://dsl.ac.uk/.

King, James, G B Harrison, and James Carmichael. King James the First, Daemonologie (1597) : Newes from Scotland, Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of Doctor Fian, a Notable Sorcerer Who Was Burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary Last (1591). San Diego, Ca: Book Tree, 2002.

Llewellyn Barstow, Anne . Witchcraze : A New History of the European Witch Hunts. New York, N.Y.: Harperone, 1994.

Murray, Margaret Alice. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, 1921.

Owens, Yvonne. Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art : The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien. London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

saint-joan-of-arc.com. “Joan of Arc: Trial of Condemnation Searchable Transcipt,” n.d. https://saint-joan-of-arc.com/trial-condemnation.htm.

Williams, Liz. MIRACLES of OUR OWN MAKING : A History of Paganism. S.L.: Reaktion Books, 2021.

She Speaks Volumes: A primer for a millennia of often neglected writings by female philosophers, artists, and scientists.

created by Daniella Sorrentino

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S2:E2: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and Female Friendship.

Excerpts from The Hearing Trumpet are ready by Verna Sorrentino

This episode is based on The NYRB edition of The Hearing Trumpet published in 2021.

The Hearing Trumpet was written in the 1950s, and was originally published in 1974.

Listen to the SSV episode on Carrington's Down Below

FROM WIKIPEDIA: Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011[1]) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s.[2] Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.[3][4] read more

Research Links:

• Leonora Carrington's - Art work: https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonora-carrington
• Museo Leonora Carrington: https://www.leonoracarringtonmuseo.org
• Article about Carrington and Varo: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615/love-friendship-rivalry-surreal-friends

Books I used for research:

• The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead.
• Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. Alberth
• Magia,...

She Speaks Volumes: Season 2 Episode 1.

Down Below written by Leonora Carrington published by NYRB 2017 (originally published 1972).

Excerpts read by: Verna Sorrentino.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/down-below?variant=29716648135

Leonora Carrington was born in April 6, 1917 in Lancashire, England, and died May 25th, 2011 in Mexico City. She studied art in London, and in Italy. In 1937 Carrington moved to Paris, and was a central figure in surrealist circles. She lived in Sant Martin d’Ardeche with her lover Max Ernst before fleeing to Spain as the Nazi’s encroached on France. In Madrid she was involuntarily committed to an asylum. After her treatment she managed to evade being sent to a sanatorium in South Africa by her parents. She married Renato Leduc and moved to Mexico City, where she would live for most of the rest of her life. A complete biography is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#Mexico

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She Speaks Volumes:  The Primer for 500 years of feminist philosophy, history

Season 1 Episode 8: Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf. 

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino for the Feral Culture Lab: feralculturelab.com , dsorrentino.com 

Virginia Woolf is voiced by Fiona Thraille: https://thraille.weebly.com

In this episode we are listening to excerpts from the essay Three Guineas written by Virginia Woolf in 1938. Three Guineas is a satirical book length essay written as England is on the brink of World War 2. The essay is in response to a letter she has received asking her for a donation towards peace efforts, and posing the question, ‘how can women help prevent war?

For this episode I used:

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas published by Penguin Classics - April 2019 Introduction by: by Michèle Barrett

Listen to the She Speaks Volumes episode: A Room of One’s Own

I also Used the following sites as references: 

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939

https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf 

http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk 

Credit to:

SFX: 

freesound.org 

00489 Aircraft Run 2 - Robinhood76   

https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/62049/

O1777 machine gun - Robinhood76

https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/96376/#

Military-alarm - kizilsungur 

https://freesound.org/people/KIZILSUNGUR/sounds/96973/#

Music: 

https://www.soundstripe.com

Sweata Weatha - Dresden, The Flamingo

When the failure of modern dictatorship and authoritarian philosophies becomes more apparent and the realization of failure more general, Anarchism will be vindicated.  

~ Emma Goldman 

Episode created by: Daniela Sorrentino, for Feral Culture Lab 

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Living My Life Volume 1 - written By Emma Goldman 

Published by Dover Publications, New York, 1970. 

Emma Goldman is voiced by: Halia Hirniak.

• Emma Goldman was born June 27th 1869 in Kovno in the Russian Empire. She died May 14th 1940 in Toronto Ontario, Canada. In her almost 70 years she witnessed, often firsthand, World War 1, the early part of World War 2, the Russian Revolution, The Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of the American Trade Unions, the depression, and the rise and rise of capitalism. she fought for workers rights, wealth distribution long before it was a thing, campaigned for birth control and the rights of women. At heart she was an anarchist, and idealist and most surprisingly a romantic.  Yet she was called the most dangerous woman in America...but dangerous for who? 

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

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

https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman 

The interview with Ruth Kinna is the bonus episode. Her books can be found here: 

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/128925/ruth-kinna.html

And an essay here

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/professor-ruth-kinna-the-theory-and-practice-of-anarchism 

Check out the Anarchist Library for tons of essays and publications on anarchy, including the works of Emma Goldman. 

Dresden, The Flamingo; An Old Fashioned Magic Show:

https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/12943

Inchadney: Northsea. https://freesound.org/s/587759/

Plantmonkey: Gulls on the isles of Sicily; https://freesound.org/s/377107/

Canardo55: Herring Gull 1: https://freesound.org/s/538016/

She Speaks Volumes:  The Primer for 500 years of feminist philosophy, history

Season 1 Episode 6: In the Cage of Obscene Birds: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. 

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino for the Feral Culture Lab: feralculturelab.com , dsorrentino.com 

Harriet Jacobs is voiced by Portia Cue, VoiceOnCue.com  

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For this episode I used two editions:

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself,  Penguin Books, London, Eng 2000 

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, (Enlarged Edition), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, and London Eng. 2009

I also used the following web-pages as references: 

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

https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/before-and-after-civil-war

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War

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

https://www.britannica.com/art/slave-narrative

Here is the link ton the slave narratives from the Federal Writers Project in the Library of Congress: 

https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/ 

BIO: Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery around 1813, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is her auto-biography, her own account of her life in slavery, and the harrowing years, decade she spent on the run, after her escape.

“You may believe what I say; for I write only that whereof I know. I was twenty-one years in that cage of obscene birds. I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks.” Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

MUSIC: 

Swing Low Sweet Chariot: written by Wallace Willis, c1865, performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/563 

Oh, Freedom: writer unknown. c1865 performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13065

Sound Effects: 

Rain on a Summer Day

"Vlatko Blažek Varaždin, Croatia e-mail: [email protected]

She Speaks Volumes, the primer for over 500 years of feminist philosophy, history, and writing is produced by the Feral Culture Lab

Written and created by Daniella Sorrentino. 

Mary Wollstonecraft is voiced by Fiona Thraille

In this episode we are listening to excerpts from the book that would lay the foundation of western feminism, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written by Mary Wollstonecraft, and originally published in 1792.

Episode extracts from Project Gutenberg edition 

Research from the  Penguin Classic edition.

Mary Wollstonecraft was born April 27, 1759 in Spitalfields, now part of London’s East End. Instability in the family’s finances, and her father’s drunken rages prompted her to seek employment outside of London as soon as she was able. She worked first as a ladies companion in Bath, and as governess in Ireland, she also briefly started her own school. Finding none of these careers suitable she returned to London to embark on a career as a writer. ‘The first of a new genus’, she would write in a letter to her sister. 

A complete list of her works can be found in the bibliography on her wikipedia entry.

Music:

Mandoline Concerto in C, Vivaldo (1729) from the Internet Archive

La Marseillaise, (1792 ) Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, from Wikimedia Commons

Soundscape source credits: 

"Rain on Windows, Interior, B.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

"Wind, Realistic, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

“Dry Thunder”, by JusKiddink of Freesound.org

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