
Lost Ladies of Lit
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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 240 episodes
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, she embarked on an enthralling—and at times harrowing—year-long adventure. The result was her bestselling 1983 memoir, Cas...
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Episode 238
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36:57

Penning Patriotism — Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
The recent hatching of baby eaglets in Big Bear, CA has Amy thinking a lot about patriotism and what it actually means in turbulent times for our country. Lost lady of lit Katharine Lee Bates — a staunch activist for social justice who decried ...
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Episode 237
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15:00

Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie
Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One traveled the world in relentless pursuit of spi...
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Episode 236
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47:16

Luck Be A Lady: Amy Gets an "Honorific"
Having been gifted a parcel of land on a Scottish estate, Amy was recently granted the title of “Lady Amy of Blairadam.” Kim joins her in this week’s bonus episode to “bend the knee” and to discuss the fine-print details of this development cou...
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Episode 235
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13:41

Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust
How do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an ostensible how-to manual in the witty didactic novel she penned at age 19, A Few Days in Athens. Wright’s ra...
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Episode 234
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41:16
