Hi Listeners, this is just a brief announcement to let you know that our next episode will be delayed. Like many of you, we are struggling with this ongoing global pandemic. (laughs) Uhhhh. yeah. yeah. But, we've got some cool things in the works. They're coming soon. Fret not. In the meantime, check the show notes for a list of highly recommended podcasts that you can listen to this Black History Month. Thanks for listening!

(Music: Haydn, String Quartet II in B Minor performed by Steve's Bedroom Band)

What to listen to in the meantime:

In this episode, we talk to Scheherezade Khan, a masters student at the University of Ottawa, about Isa Blagden and how we can decolonise our approach to Victorian literature.

The paper we discussed is Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong. 'Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies' in Victorian Studies Vol. 62, No. 3. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.01). You can find Scheherezade on twitter at twitter.com/arete20

The music used in this episode's break is Charles Wood's 'Ding Dong Merrily on High', performed by Steve's Bedroom Band.

Sources

Fanny Jackson-Coppin. Reminiscences of School Life; and Hints on Teaching. Digitised by the University of North Carolina.

Cassandra Waggoner. ‘Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913). Blackpast

Robin Brooks. Looking to Foremothers for Strength: A Brief Biography of the Colored Woman’s League. _Women's Studies. Sep 2018, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p609-616_.__

Geraldine J. Clifford. Those Good Gertrudes : A Social History of Women Teachers in America. (2016)

James Levy. Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900. American Nineteenth Century History. Mar2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p43-73.

Linda M. Perkins. Heed Life's Demands: The Educational Philosophy of Fanny Jackson Coppin_. 

Christel N Temple. The Cosmology of Afrocentric Womanism. Western Journal of Black Studies. Spring2012, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p23-32. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76126380&site=eds-live

Sources not directly used in episode but of interest

Kendra R. Parker. Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 : She Bites Back. (2020)

Nazera Sadiq Wright. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. (2016)

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In Episode 24, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of renowned Chinese ci and shi poet, Gu Taiqing. Transcript coming soon!

Sources for this episode:

Grant, Beata. "The Poetess and the Precept Master:

This video on the pronunciation of ci and shi

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Additional resources

The four men elected in 1870 were Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 and seated in 1870. [Oct. 19, 1870: First African Americans Elected to the House of Representatives] (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/)

Courtney and Eleanor chat about what they've been up to during hiatus / quarantine and what they're hoping to accomplish in Season Four!

Things we mentioned:

The books mentioned in this episode are:

Link to our read-along details (the full text of this announcement is included there): http://victorianscribblers.com/quarantine-read-along/

Link to a podcast that is heroically providing Covid-19 updates (thanks Erins!): http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/

Find us on Twitter: @VS_Podcast

Transcript coming soon.

The texts read in this episode are True Patriotism and The Attraction of Planets.

You can read True Patriotism, along with other information related to Delany on the website of Moonstone Arts Center.

The Attraction of Planets can be found on Hathitrust.

In this episode, we chat with illustrator and writer, Isabel Greenberg, about her new book, Glass Town, and the Brontës.

You can find Isabel on Twitter: @isabelgreenberg, on Instagram, and on her website: https://www.isabelgreenberg.co.uk/

U.S. listeners can find Glass Town here on March 3rd: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/glass-town_9781419732683/

U.K. listeners can find GlassTown here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115589/glass-town/9781787330832.html

Some resources about the Brontë juvenilia:

• British Library “The History of Angria” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bront-juvenilia-the-history-of-angria
• Brontë Babe blog: https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/juvenilia-a-z/

The third and final part of our biographical coverage of Martin R. Delany.

Transcripts and links coming soon.