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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 257 episodes
Lost Ladies of Lit
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The Real-Life Raven That Inspired Dickens and Poe
Visitors to the Rare Book Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia can gaze upon a taxidermied raven named Grip who inspired not one, but two literary masterpieces by world-famous authors. A visit to the Charles Dickens Museum in London p...
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Episode 255
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HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia. We're joined in this encore episode by guest Brad Bigelow, whose obsessi...
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Episode 254
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New Titles (and More Lost Ladies!) From Boiler House Press
It goes without saying that Boiler House Press’s Recovered Books series is near and dear to our hearts. Their recent release of Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley was the subject of our previous episode, and this week, Amy weighs in on s...
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Episode 253
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Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 publication, the novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 (along with its 1928 film adaptation) and fel...
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Episode 252
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The Country Girls Follow-up and J.P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man
Following last week’s episode on Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls, Amy offers a few updates and draws some comparisons to a more male-centric masterpiece set in Dublin during the same time period: J.P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man
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Episode 251
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18:03