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) 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
4) 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
5) HIATUS ENCORE: Miriam Karpilove with Jessica Kirzane
Send us a text With her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love is the 1918 Yiddish p...Show More
6) HIATUS ENCORE: Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
Send us a text In this encore presentation, we’re reviving a literary suicide scandal that took place among some of the biggest names in the West Coast’s early 20th century bohemian society. Joining u...Show More
7) HIATUS ENCORE: Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
Send us a text Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le Sueur used the intervening decades to transform ...Show More
8) HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
Send us a text What if we told you that there was an ingenious retelling of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights set in post-war Japan that also has shades of Middlemarch and The Great Gatsby? Minae Mizum...Show More
9) HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Send us a text Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia. We're joined in this e...Show More
10) Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Send us a text Else Jerusalem’s Red House Alley is a riveting exposé of the sex industry in fin-de-siècle Vienna. A bestseller upon its 1909 publication, the novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 (alo...Show More