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
Eibhlín Dubh’s “The Lament for Art O’Leary”
“The Lament for Art O’Leary” (“Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire”) was composed by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill upon the 1773 murder of her husband in County Cork. The anguishing funeral lament remains one of the most iconic literary works in...
ENCORE: Jane White —Quarry with Helen Hughes
We're celebrating summer with another sultry, almost-suffocating novel from our podcast vaults, one clearly written with William Golding's Lord of the Flies in mind. When Jane White’s gripping and unsettling debut novel Quarry...
Kim and Amy Take a Field Trip!
In this bonus episode, Amy catalogues all the incredible finds she and Kim discovered during their recent field trip to the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. This world-class institution (which houses 12 million items, from books, to docume...
ENCORE WITH UPDATE! Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
With Counterpoint Press's new editions of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's work (including her Booker-Prize winning novel Heat and Dust and a new short story collection Disinheritance: The Rediscovered Stories) we're inspired to revisit...