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) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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Send us a text Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years.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
9) 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
10) 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