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. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
Sei Shōnagon — The Pillow Book
Inspired by last week’s episode on women diarists, Amy discusses Sei Shōnagon, a Japanese writer from the Heian period whose Pillow Book journal includes observations from her time serving the empress at court in the late 10th-century....
Women Diarists with Betsy Rubiner
Chronicles, confidantes, confessionals. Diaries have historically served all these purposes and more, allowing women to speak out in a world that sometimes preferred they keep mum (just ask Mrs. Samuel Pepys). But where should these very person...
Thecla, The Girl Who Baptized Herself
In this follow-up to our discussion on The Gospel of Mary, Amy explores the young woman at the heart of The Acts of Paul and Thecla, a lesser-known second-century apocryphal Christian text. Thecla’s wilful insistence on personal and bodily auto...
The Gospel of Mary with Sarah Parkhouse
First surfacing in 1896 at a marketplace in Cairo, scraps of ancient papyrus left scholars gobsmacked by the discovery: a fragmented account of Mary Magdalene in conversation with Jesus and his disciples. The codex’s circuitous path to publicat...
Phyllida Law — Notes to My Mother-In-Law
Some may know the late Phyllida Law (who passed away in July) as a great Scottish actress of stage and screen. Others may know her as the mother of actress/director Emma Thompson. She was also a published author whose assortment of memoirs are ...