Lost Ladies of Lit

Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry—The Tale of the Rose with Sara Kippur

28 Apr 2026

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Send us Fan MailThough her high-flying literary husband took center-stage, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry was more than just the metaphorical “rose” i...

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton — Who Would Have Thought It? with Quite Literally Books

14 Apr 2026

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Send us Fan MailThe first Mexican-American woman novelist to be published in English, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton chose a surprising subject matter—...

Juanita Harrison—My Great, Wide, Beautiful World with Cathryn Halverson

31 Mar 2026

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Send us Fan MailDetermined from a young age to escape the Jim-Crow South and see new places, Mississippi native Juanita Harrison managed, as a working...

Magda Szabó — Abigail with Deborah H. Sussman

17 Mar 2026

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Send a textA literary icon in her native Hungary, Magda Szabó was relatively unknown to English-speaking readers until recent translations of her wor...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon — Lady Audley's Secret with Kristine Huntley

03 Mar 2026

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Send a textPass the smelling salts! Readers of the Victorian Era eagerly (or furtively) set scruples aside to read Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1862 sen...

ENCORE and updates! Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Stories with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan

17 Feb 2026

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Send a textHer Life in Ink, a brand new biography by Sharon Harris about Elizabeth Garver Jordan, provides a good reason to plunder our podcast vault ...

Hazel Hawthorne — Salt House with Allison Bass-Riccio and Livia Tenzer

03 Feb 2026

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Send us a text“Queen of the Dunes” Hazel Hawthorne was a Cape Cod legend who wrote about The Road nearly two decades before her one-time tenant, J...

From Jane Austen to Zadie Smith — Advice from Women Writers for a More Productive 2026 (Encore Presentation)

20 Jan 2026

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Send us a textIn this encore presentation, Kim and Amy take stock by dusting off a "New Year’s" episode from 1921, sharing secrets of what...

Virginia Faulkner — Willa Cather Champion, with Brad Bigelow

06 Jan 2026

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Send us a textVirginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic American literature....

Katharine Lee Bates — "Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride"

23 Dec 2025

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Send us a textBefore penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so invisible) ...

Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg

09 Dec 2025

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Send us a textDark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T....

Malachi Whitaker — And So Did I with Valerie Waterhouse

25 Nov 2025

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Send us a textLikened to a fresh Yorkshire breeze, Malachi Whitaker’s year-in-the-life memoir And So Did I, published in 1939, is a quirky spirit-qu...

The Sitting Room: A Treasure Trove of "Lost Ladies"

11 Nov 2025

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Send us a textIn this special episode, Kim and Amy recount their recent visit to The Sitting Room, a unique library and literary salon in Sonoma, CA, ...

Rosalind Ashe — Moths with Lisa B. Kröger

28 Oct 2025

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Send us a textRepublished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Moths is a spine-chilling tale of supernatural sed...

Radclyffe Hall — The Well of Loneliness with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

14 Oct 2025

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Send us a textOften called “the lesbian Bible,” Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness has been sparking debate for nearly a century...

Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death with Mimi Pond

30 Sep 2025

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Send us a textIn this follow-up to our 2021 episode on Nancy Mitford, we’re turning the spotlight on her younger sister, Jessica (a.k.a. “Decca”...

HIATUS ENCORE: Miriam Karpilove with Jessica Kirzane

16 Sep 2025

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Send us a textWith her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or...

HIATUS ENCORE: Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast

02 Sep 2025

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Send us a textIn this encore presentation, we’re reviving a literary suicide scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in the West Coa...

HIATUS ENCORE: Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy

19 Aug 2025

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Send us a textOriginally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le...

HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan

05 Aug 2025

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Send us a textWhat if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shad...

HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow

22 Jul 2025

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Send us a textWoman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully biza...

Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega

08 Jul 2025

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Send us a textElse Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 public...

Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki

24 Jun 2025

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Send us a textWhen Edna O’Brien published her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, she was branded a “Jezebel” in her native Ireland—but tha...

Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country

10 Jun 2025

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Send us a textIf Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz dri...

Jessie Redmon Fauset — Plum Bun with Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper

27 May 2025

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Send us a textLangston Hughes called Jessie Redmon Fauset “the midwife of the Harlem Renaissance” with good reason. As literary editor at The Cris...

E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand with Rose Neal

13 May 2025

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Send us a textDastardly villains are no match for Capitola Black, the audacious heroine at the center of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s 1859 bestseller, The ...

ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon

29 Apr 2025

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Send us a textF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “Jazz ...

Angela Carter — The Bloody Chamber

15 Apr 2025

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Send us a textWho’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not the heroines from Angela Carter’s 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber. The British ...

Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal

01 Apr 2025

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Send us a textWhen Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a real-life Robinson Crusoe on a remote tropical island, she embarked o...

Penning Patriotism — Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"

25 Mar 2025

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Send us a textThe recent hatching of baby eaglets in Big Bear, CA has Amy thinking a lot about patriotism and what it actually means in turbulent time...

Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie

18 Mar 2025

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Send us a textReligious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of the...

Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust

04 Mar 2025

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Send us a textHow do you engage with others in a polarized society? Early 19-century writer and freethinker Frances “Fanny” Wright offers an osten...

Katharine S. White — Shaping The New Yorker, with Amy Reading

18 Feb 2025

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Send us a textOne hundred years ago this week, The New Yorker published its first issue. A few months later, the magazine’s first (and for decades, ...

Literary Jewelry with Leigh Batnick Plessner

04 Feb 2025

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Send us a textJanuary was dismal, but we’re distracting ourselves with something shiny in this first new full-length episode of the year. Catbird Ch...

Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass

21 Jan 2025

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Send us a textIf you’re drawn to the hefty tomes of Victorian authors Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, we can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy...

Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song

07 Jan 2025

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Send us a textIn this week's hiatus replay, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who wrote un...

Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

24 Dec 2024

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Send us a textNovelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Al...

Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch

10 Dec 2024

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Send us a textAt the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a...

Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie

26 Nov 2024

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Send us a textCharmed by her friend Lewis Carroll’s children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti followed...

Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins

12 Nov 2024

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Send us a textMargaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie Mullins, wh...

Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan

29 Oct 2024

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Send us a textElizabeth Garver Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the lat...

Sanora Babb — Whose Names Are Unknown with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

15 Oct 2024

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Send us a textGrowing up on the Great Plains and witnessing the struggles of migrant workers in California made Sanora Babb uniquely qualified to writ...

Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. Plante

01 Oct 2024

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Send us a textDetails of Eliza Haywood’s life may be murky today, but in the early 18th century, she was a literary force—writing plays and bestse...

Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson

17 Sep 2024

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Send us a textLong before 'Brat Summer,' America was taken with Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte...

HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman

10 Sep 2024

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Send us a textHIATUS ENCORE: Anne Zimmerman, author of the 2011 biography An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, joins us to di...

Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler

03 Sep 2024

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Send us a textAs Berlin bureau chief for The Chicago Tribune from 1925-1941, Sigrid Schultz deflected both sexism and danger to report the truth and s...

HIATUS ENCORE: Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser

27 Aug 2024

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Send us a textHIATUS ENCORE: Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porters’ books took Regency-era England by storm just a few years ahead of Jane Austen, and...

Hiatus Encore: The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa

13 Aug 2024

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Send us a textHIATUS ENCORE: Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not ...

HIATUS ENCORE: Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot

30 Jul 2024

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Send us a textDid you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and n...

Ann Schlee (Rhine Journey) with Sam Johnson-Schlee and Lucy Scholes

16 Jul 2024

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Send us a textPack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rhine Journ...

Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career)

02 Jul 2024

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Send us a textAn Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in ...

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Lost Lady of Translation — with Jo Salas

18 Jun 2024

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Send us a textYou may think you’ve never read anything by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, but if you’ve read any Thomas Mann, there’s a good chance you...

Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie Courogen

04 Jun 2024

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Send us a textGuest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May....

Kim and Amy Catch Their Book Breath

21 May 2024

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Send us a textIn this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Town...

Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet’s Daughter with Avril Horner

07 May 2024

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Send us a textBarbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal p...

Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal

23 Apr 2024

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Send us a textDying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gaine...

Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux

09 Apr 2024

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Send us a textAn eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicle...

Speranza, a.k.a Oscar Wilde’s Mom

26 Mar 2024

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Send us a textIn this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An ...

Whose Line is it Anyway? Elizabeth Taylor vs. Elizabeth Taylor

25 Mar 2024

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Send us a textIn our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us for a lightning-round quiz...

Emilie Loring —Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender

12 Mar 2024

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Send us a textGet ready to fall hopelessly in love with Emilie Loring, a New England native whose prolific output of richly-detailed romance novels fe...

Angela Milne — One Year’s Time with Simon David Thomas

27 Feb 2024

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Send us a textBlogger, podcaster and consultant for the British Library Women Writers series Simon Thomas returns to the show to discuss Angela Milne’...

Carolyn Wells — Murder in the Bookshop with Rebecca Rego Barry

13 Feb 2024

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Send us a textA pioneer of the detective/mystery genre who began writing locked-room mystery novels a decade before Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells was...

Zelda Fitzgerald — Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera

30 Jan 2024

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Send us a textZelda Fitzgerald is known as “the first American flapper” and an icon of the Jazz Age, but you may be surprised to learn that beneat...

HiATUS ENCORE: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales

23 Jan 2024

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Send us a textAs Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtim...

HIATUS ENCORE: Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick

16 Jan 2024

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Send us a textNew full-length episodes beginning Jan. 30. Edna Ferber’s So Big was the top-selling novel of 1924 and it won a Pulitzer Prize, yet it...

HIATUS ENCORE: The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George

09 Jan 2024

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Send us a textPublished anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era episto...

Hiatus Replay: Maud Hart Lovelace — The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein

02 Jan 2024

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Send us a textNew episodes beginning January 30. Ready for some Edwardian Era YA? Set in Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Hart Lovelace...

Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond

26 Dec 2023

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Send us a textBack with new episodes on January 30. Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussi...

Hiatus Replay: Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith

19 Dec 2023

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Send us a textWe’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes.  Did you know there was a controversial, now-forgotten 1888 novel written in respo...

Hiatus Replay: Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson

12 Dec 2023

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Send us a textWe’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Sisters Jane and Mary Findlater were literary celebrities in their day and counted ...

Hiatus Replay: Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket

05 Dec 2023

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Send us a textWe're back with all new episodes on Jan. 30, 2024. Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and...

Mary McCarthy’s The Group Turns 60

28 Nov 2023

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Send us a textJoin us as we discuss Mary McCarthy’s best-known work, The Group, published in 1963. An instant hit, it remained on the New York Times...

Lydia Maria Child and the “Thanksgiving” Poem

21 Nov 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s bonus episode, we dig into the poem “Thanksgiving” by lost lady Lydia Maria Child. AND we remain ever thankful for ...

Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

14 Nov 2023

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Send us a textNovelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Al...

The Women Who Illuminated Manuscripts

07 Nov 2023

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Send us a textLast week, with guest Kathleen B. Jones, we discussed Christine de Pizan and her Book of the City of Ladies. Could a woman's hand h...

Christine de Pizan — The Book of the City of Ladies with Kathleen B. Jones

31 Oct 2023

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Send us a textA widow who turned to her pen to support herself and her family, Christine de Pizan was described by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Se...

Cita Press & Sui Sin Far with Juliana Castro Varón and Victoria Namkung

24 Oct 2023

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Send us a textLearn more about the feminist open source publisher cita press and An Immortal Book: Selected Writings of Sui Sin Far, a curated colle...

Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy

17 Oct 2023

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Send us a textOriginally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le...

An England Travelogue

10 Oct 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s mini, Amy shares some of the lesser-known spots she visited on her August trip to England (which included meetups with ...

Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson

03 Oct 2023

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Send us a textJoining us to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and her seminal work, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, is Dr. S...

Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens

26 Sep 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s mini, we’re sharing some of our favorite verbal faux pas and mondegreens. The term mondegreen, which was coined by Sy...

Sylvia Townsend Warner — Lolly Willowes with Sarah Watling

19 Sep 2023

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Send us a textSylvia Townsend Warner's "Lolly Willowes” (1926) holds a coveted spot on The Guardian's list of the top 100 English lan...

Back to School Prof Edition

12 Sep 2023

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Send us a textFrom Dark Academia trends inspired by Donna Tartt's “The Secret History” to other campus novels like Kingsley Amis' “Luc...

Susan Taubes — Divorcing with Rosemary Kelty

05 Sep 2023

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Send us a textWhen 'Divorcing' was first published in 1969, the critic Hugh Kenner penned a review for the New York Times that dismissed its...

Hollywood’s Golden Age (for Women)

29 Aug 2023

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Send us a textIn support of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, this week’s mini is focused on lost lady screenwriters. In the early days of ...

Ismat Chughtai - The Quilt and Other Stories with Tania Malik

22 Aug 2023

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Send us a textIsmat Chughtai was one of the boldest and most outspoken writers of her day. Her cleverly-crafted short story “The Quilt” sparked a ...

Anne Askew’s Unyielding Spirit

15 Aug 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s mini episode, we’re talking about Anne Askew, a Tudor writer, poet, and Protestant preacher who was condemned as a he...

Janet Lewis — The Wife of Martin Guerre with Iris Jamahl Dunkle

08 Aug 2023

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Send us a textSet in 16th-century France and published in 1941, Janet Lewis’s “The Wife of Martin Guerre” revolves around one woman's strug...

Episode 151: Elspeth Barker — O Caledonia

01 Aug 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s mini we discuss Elspeth Barker, a Scottish writer raised in Drumtochty Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where her paren...

Elizabeth Smart — By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept with Rosemary Sullivan and Maya Gallus

25 Jul 2023

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Send us a textWhen Elizabeth Smart’s 1945 poetic prose novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” was reissued in 1966, Angela Carter ...

Murasaki Shikibu — The Tale of Genji

18 Jul 2023

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Send us a textDid you know that a woman wrote the very first novel ever? (We didn’t!) In this week’s mini, we learn more about Murasaki Shikibu&ap...

Winnifred Eaton — Cattle with Mary Chapman

11 Jul 2023

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Send us a textWith the re-release of Winnifred Eaton's riveting 100 year-old novel CATTLE, we’re thrilled to be joined by Mary Chapman, directo...

Mercy Otis Warren — Revolutionary Scribe

04 Jul 2023

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Send us a textIn today’s mini, we look into the fascinating life of Mercy Otis Warren, a hidden wordsmith of American history and the first female r...

Jane White — Quarry with Helen Hughes

27 Jun 2023

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Send us a textWhen Jane White’s gripping and unsettling debut novel Quarry was first published in 1967, a review in The Scotsman called it “the mo...

Unlikely Children’s Authors

20 Jun 2023

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Send us a textIn this week’s mini episode we uncover the hidden talents of famous writers who ventured into children's literature, including Ia...

Theodora Keogh — Street Music with Maud Newton

13 Jun 2023

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Send us a textIn this week's episode, we are joined by critic and author Maud Newton as we delve into Theodora Keogh's enigmatic and hauntin...

Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life with Nava Atlas

06 Jun 2023

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Send us a textThe gorgeous book Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life mines the life and musings of famous women authors on subjects such as findi...

Miriam Karpilove — Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love with Jessica Kirzane

30 May 2023

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Send us a textWith her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or...

Hard-Knock Life Memoirs

23 May 2023

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Send us a textSometimes the most fraught journey is simply making it to adulthood. In this week’s mini, we talk about authors who survived unusual a...

The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa

16 May 2023

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Send us a textZora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not for a renewed p...