Ellen Coyne

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622 appearances 9 recordings 5 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Jun

Ellen Coyne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Brendan O'Connor · “‘Yesteryear’ shines another light on the Trad Wife culture war” · 3 May 2026 podcast

Because we generally are talking about heterosexual relationships in the context of trad wives.

Yes.

So the premise, and there is no spoilers in this because this happens very early on in the book.

This character, who most people think is very heavily based on Ballerina Farm, has become this multimillionaire influencer.

She's a massive online following and she's kind of promoting conservative politics around women and their gender roles.

But she wakes up one day in her fantastic, sprawling house and

everything is a little bit uncanny and she finds out that she's actually in a 19th century version of her reality.

So the lifestyle that she wanted is suddenly in front of her.

And there's a lot of tedious chapters where she's hand washing clothes, kind of trying to cook food from scratch, sitting miserably, darning by the fire.

And I suppose that's why the book has attracted so much attention.

Yeah, and that's why the book is so popular.

People think it's kind of skewering this social media fantasy.

But I suppose the book is kind of a little bit deeper than that.

It's kind of more of an interrogation about the scrutiny and the ideals and the standards that women set for themselves on social media.

So it goes a little bit further than... Go on, tell me a bit about that aspect of it.

So I suppose the most interesting thing about it is this influencer kind of has this internal dialogue in her head all the time about how to look like the most perfect mother, how to look like the most perfect housekeeper.

She's kind of paranoid every time she goes, on the rare occasion she goes to a Target and she might be buying processed food.

She might be using, you know, non-natural fertilizers on her farm.

She might be getting help with a babysitter or a nanny that she keeps firmly out of view.

And all of it is kind of driven from this internal monologue that she has created for herself about how she needs to look perfect.

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