The 2 Best Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast Episodes
1) Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald
What Not, Rose Macaulay’s 1918 wild and witty speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics, influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our guest is literary historian Kate Macdonald, who wrote ...Show More
2) Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn
New York Times-bestselling author Amy Sohn joins us to discuss the fascinating life of Ida Craddock, a self-taught Victorian sex expert, occultist, and writer of “marriage guides” who was harassed by ...Show More
3) Virginia Faulkner — Willa Cather Champion, with Brad Bigelow
Send us a text Virginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic American literature. A young flapper who made an authorial splash wit...Show More
4) Katharine Lee Bates — "Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride"
Send us a text Before penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so invisible) labor tackled by an unsung Christmas heroine, Mrs. Cl...Show More
5) Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg
Send us a text Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Margaret Vandenbu...Show More
6) Malachi Whitaker — And So Did I with Valerie Waterhouse
Send us a text Likened to a fresh Yorkshire breeze, Malachi Whitaker’s year-in-the-life memoir And So Did I, published in 1939, is a quirky spirit-quest juxtaposing wry humor and contemplative observa...Show More
7) The Sitting Room: A Treasure Trove of "Lost Ladies"
Send us a text In this special episode, Kim and Amy recount their recent visit to The Sitting Room, a unique library and literary salon in Sonoma, CA, dedicated to women's literature. Trip highlights ...Show More
8) Rosalind Ashe — Moths with Lisa B. Kröger
Send us a text Republished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Moths is a spine-chilling tale of supernatural seduction featuring a femme fatale who lures men to thei...Show More
9) Radclyffe Hall — The Well of Loneliness with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Send us a text Often called “the lesbian Bible,” Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness has been sparking debate for nearly a century. Banned in the UK after an infamous obscenity trial, t...Show More
10) Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death with Mimi Pond
Send us a text In this follow-up to our 2021 episode on Nancy Mitford, we’re turning the spotlight on her younger sister, Jessica (a.k.a. “Decca”) Mitford, an activist and journalist whom Time magazin...Show More