Sophie Gee
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10,523 appearances
38 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, again, it's really sort of plugging into this idea that the Pre-Raphaelites take up of sort of reusing mythology
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myth and magic and almost fairy tale fantasy but relocating it in the real world of the London that they're living in.
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capability.
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He's also an urban poet, Keats, which
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him.
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You know, look at the Pre-Raphaelites.
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It's a really similar thing.
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They were living in the middle of London, but you wouldn't know it from looking at any of these paintings.
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That's exactly right.
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figure.
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She's come up in the podcast before.
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And she was an extremely famous photographer, early photographer.
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Blighton of all the literates.
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As we've said before in our boarding school episodes, female education was the subject of contempt and ridicule in the 19th century.
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It was also heavily critiqued by, for example, Charlotte Bronte and the Brontes in general, who were really appalled by the circumstances of female education.
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Oh, I see what you're
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A lot of Keats in there.
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That's a beautiful, beautiful poem.
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Yes.
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We're not going to spend a huge amount of time on it, but we're passing William Morris, one of the absolutely towering figures of the arts and crafts movement in England.
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