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Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (lesbian science-fiction writer extraordinaire) and beyond. Hosted by Courtney Floyd and Eleanor Dumbill, two PhD Candidates in Victorian literature. New ep…

Victorian Scribblers


    • Sep 30, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    S5:E4 – Charles Elmé Francatelli

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 33:20


    Show Notes Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Charles Elmé Francatelli. Transcript here. Sources Charles Elmé Francatelli. A Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes. London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1867 https://archive.org/details/plaincookerybook0000fran  —.The Cook's Guide And Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant : A Practical Treatise On English And Foreign Cookery In All Its Branches, Containing Plain Instructions For Pickling And Preserving Vegetables, Fruits, Game, &C, The Curing Of Hams And Bacon, The Art Of Confectionery And Ice-Making, And The Arrangement Of Desserts, With Valuable Directions For The Preparation Of Proper Diet For Invalids, Also For A Variety Of Wine-Cups And Epicurean Salads, American Drinks, And Summer Beverages. London: Bentley, 1865 https://archive.org/details/b21526850  —. The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide To The Culinary Art In All Its Branches: Comprising, In Addition To English Cookery, The Most Approved And Recherché Systems Of French, Italian, And German Cookery; Adapted As Well For The Largest Establishments As For The Use Of Private Families. London: Bentley, 1877 (25th edition). https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-95770-33  —. Popular cookery: being a reprint of a pamphlet entitled, "Cookery for the Lancashire operatives, " gratuitously circulated during the cotton famine, in 1863. By an Englishman. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co, 1871. http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100049731949.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1%2C-146%2C1345%2C2432  —. The Royal Confectioner, English And Foreign: A Practical Treatise On The Art Of Confectionary In All Its Branches, Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed ... Also, The Art Of Ice-Making, And The Arrangement And General Economy Of Fashionable Desserts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874 https://archive.org/details/b20409473  Lauren Gilbert. Cook at Buckingham Palace: Charles Elme' Francatelli. https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2019/01/cook-at-buckingham-palace-charles-elme.html  Catherine Gore (as Albany Poyntz). ‘The French Cook'. Bentley's Miscellany Jan 1 1842, pp. 606-13 Patricia Bixler Reber. Queen Victoria's chef Charles Elme Francatelli. http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/queen-victorias-chef-charles-elme.html  Colin Smythe. Charles Elmé Francatelli, Crockford's, and the Royal Connection.https://colinsmythe.co.uk/charles-elme-francatelli-crockfords-and-the-royal-connection/  Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Encyclopaedia of Kitchen History. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004 Henry Turner Waddy. The Devonshire Club and Crockford's London: E. Nash, 1919 Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    May 2022 Episode Delays

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 3:18


    Show Notes TL;DL we're hoping to have an episode for you in mid-June! Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    S5:E3 – Timeline: 1851-1860

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2022 38:47


    Show Notes Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the early to mid-Victorian period. Transcript here. Resources for this episode included: Sally Mitchell's Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web Stats from At the Circulating Library Alexandre Dumas's publications The Oxford (or High Church) Movement Read The Lifted Veil at the George Eliot Archive Read open access scholarship about The Lifted Veil on George Eliot Scholars Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi page, or recurring donations to our tip jar of as little as $1 that get you access to private audio content right in your podcatcher! You should be listening to: Courtney's fiction podcast! The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about friendship, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife. One of the central characters is Victorian ghost, Frances "Frankie" Matilda Summerson. Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    S5:E2 – Eliza Acton

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022 48:37


    Show Notes Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Eliza Acton. Transcript here. Read Eliza Acton's Work UPenn's Online Books Page featuring all digitized editions of her work Poems (1826) Modern Cookery (1845) Resources for this episode included: Asa Briggs. Victorian Things Sheila Hardy. The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton (would not recommend tbh) Elizabeth Ray's “Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. and this article in The Guardian Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi page, or recurring donations to our tip jar of as little as $1 that get you access to private audio content right in your podcatcher! You should be listening to: Horse Girls, a podcast in which hosts Alex, Jenna, and Tim take a canter down memory lane to revisit all of those horse girl books they read growing up. Find the pod on Twitter @HorseGirlsCast Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    S5:E1 – Timeline: 1836-1850

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2022 21:51


    Show Notes In the season five premiere, Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the beginning of the Victorian period. Transcript here. Resources for this episode included: Sally Mitchell's Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia Richard Altick's Victorian People and Ideas Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction on Victorian Web Cliffhangers on Victorian Web Stats from At the Circulating Library Eleanor's entry on Factory Acts Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi page, or recurring donations to our tip jar of as little as $1 that get you access to private audio content right in your podcatcher! You should be listening to: Check out long-time listener Art Kilmer's Bookshelf Odyssey podcast! The podcast can be found at www.bookshelfodyssey.com and you can also find it on YouTube! Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    Victorian Scribblers Trailer

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2022


    Show Notes A long overdue trailer as we set out on season five. Music: String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band

    S4:E12 – A Cup o' Kindness for Auld Lang Syne

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2021 51:48


    Show Notes The story featured in this episode is Mrs Ranford's New Year's Dinner. Read along. If you want to read more about William and Mary Howitt, their Quakerism, and work on behalf of the poor, there's a good overview from the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.

    S4:E11 – All I Want for Christmas is Improved Working Conditions for All

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2021 15:49


    Show Notes In the tradition of our annual holiday episodes, I've gone a little wild with the title of today's episode. Today, I'll read you a Christmas Ballad titled “It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was first published in the 1870s  and which floats around with several variant titles. Before that, though, I'll share a mini biography of its author, English journalist, poet, dramatist, and novelist George R. Sims. But first! let's take a quick trip around the world in George R. Sims's lifetime: Around the World Feb 11 1847 - Thomas Edison is Born 1848 marked the beginning of several revolutions against European monarchies, notably in Sicily, France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire April 10 1848 - Chartists gather across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament  for a demonstration in which they planned to march en masse to deliver a petition, but police had them trapped and the event ended with a fizzle rather than a bang Jul 4 1855 - Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" Is Published 1868 - Elizabeth Blackwell establishes a Women's Medical College Nov 17 1877 - Charles Darwin received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University During Darwin's honorary degree ceremony, a prankster dangled this stuffed monkey dressed in academic robes from the gallery of the Senate House, which 'excited some mirth'. April 1888- February 1891 the Whitechapel Murders were committed by an unidentified person who came to be known as Jack the Ripper Sep 23 1889 - Nintendo Founded to produce handmade hanafuda cards 1899 - Kate Chopin Publishes "The Awakening" Sep 8 1903 - The American Federation Of Labor Grants A Charter To Granite Quarry Workers Feb 2 1914 the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin, "Making a Living," is released Jan 11 1922 - Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip administered the first dose of their newly developed Insulin Injection to 14yo diabetic, Leonard Thompson George R. Sims Bio George R. Sims was born 2 September 1847 to father, George Sims, and mother, Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson Sims. He would be the first of the couple's six children. Between them, they raised their children with the London theater and progressive politics. Louisa was a president of the Women's Provident League and her father, Chartist leader John Dinmore Stevenson, lived with the family. Sims began writing for in school, where he quickly began to publish poetry and journalism in The College Gazette and later  The Welcome Guest, Fun, Weekly Dispatch, and The Referee. For The Referee, he wrote a popular column of miscellany called 'Mustard and Cress' under the pseudonym 'Dagonet' from 1877 until he died. And it is under that pseudonym that he reported, from 1888-1891 on the Whitechapel Murders.  His best-known ballad is “It Is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was often parodied during his lifetime but which struck me as having strong ‘eat the rich' vibes in a Christmas season marked by the exploitation of wage workers here in the US.  [transition music] Click here to read the poem! [transition music] Thank you for listening! I hope you all have a happy Christmas Eve. Keep an eye on our feed for a second holiday episode from Eleanor.  Take care! Resources https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/86dc0be7-20fa-36d2-8606-be3459167766 Music This episode featured "Deck the Halls (brass arrangement)" performed by Michel Rondeau.

    S4:E10 – Rita Cetina Gutiérrez

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2021 34:16


    Show Notes Tres de Marzo Ya Cepeda, el hombre ilustre  que nos legara en herencia  la Libertad y la Ciencia  fuentes de ventura y paz  consagra con noble anhelo  para eternizar su gloria  a su querida memoria  cantos de felicidad.  Escuchad… Su augusto nombre  por doquier repite el eco…  Todo el pueblo yucateco  honra hoy al libertador  y en dulce y sentida trova  las niñas del Instituto  también le pagan tributo  de gratitud y de amor Sources https://www.decimononicas.com/cetina-rita  https://distintaslatitudes.net/archivo/sobre-rita-cetina-gutierrez-madre-simbolica-del-feminismo-en-yucatan https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/opinion/83810/rita-cetina-gutierrez-pedagoga-feminista-que-dejo-huella-en-yucatan https://inehrm.gob.mx/work/models/inehrm/Resource/1484/1/images/RitaCetina.pdf  https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2017/10/the-yucatan-governor-who-empowered-women/ https://www.naatikmexico.org/womens-rights-in-mexico-a-brief-history/ https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=674&from=1879

    S4:E9 – The Land Whale Murders Chapter 1: Eel That Heaven Allows

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 27:56


    We still need to get you last month's episode! It's coming! But in the meantime, we have a WHALE of a tale to share: episode one of The Land Whale Murders! _The Land Whale Murder_s is a Gilded Age comedic alternate history podcast about murders, birders, and a missing whale. The show is written by Jonathan A. Goldberg (writer of The Fall of the House of Sunshine, Radio Free Mushroom America, Margaret's Garden) and directed by James Oliva (What's the Frequency), with original music by Matt roi Berger (Fall of the House of Sunshine, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly). The trailer for Chapter 1 is here! Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss a single episode! And find out more about the show at www.landwhalepod.com Oh, hey, wanna know why Eleanor declared Melvil Dewey an enemy of the podcast?? CLASSISM, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, RACISM…THE LIFE OF MELVIL DEWEY

    S4:E8 – E. Pauline Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2021 39:35


    Show Notes CW: Racially motivated violence and death, alcohol-related violence, settler violence, residential schools, suicide “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction”

    Lit Slashing Supercut

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2021 76:02


    Show Notes Eleanor and Courtney have been swamped, so they offer you this supercut of their spinoff podcast, Lit Slashing, in lieu of an episode this month. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe to here: https://pnc.st/s/lit-slashing. Check out litslashing.carrd.co for transcripts, links to social media, and more!

    A Conversation about Anne Brontë with Robin Inboden

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2021


    Show Notes In this episode, we interview Professor Robin Inboden, who edited the recent Broadview edition of _Agnes Grey_. Also check out Robin's book recommendation, Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life.

    S4:E7 – Mary Church Terrell (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2021


    in this episode, we wrap up our coverage of the life of Mary Church Terrell! (Courtney here, apologizing for the random thumps. We were in hour two of recording and I apparently had the fidgets. :/) Resources Used and Mentioned Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World Code Switch episode about redlining P. Djèlí Clark's _Ring Shout_ The World's Fair, Frederick Douglas, and Paul Dunbar The Poetry Foundation's page on Paul Laurence Dunbar Get Lit podcast episode on Paul Laurence Dunbar A Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass's Lecture on Haiti, Library of Congress From the Midway, a podcast miniseries on the Chicago World's Fair A New Yorker article about the Haiti Pavilion at the World's Fair An episode of NPR's Fresh Air on the Remarkable Life of Frederick Douglass Learn More about Mary Church Terrell National Portrait Gallery portrait and info Short PBS video about Church Terrell Ms. Magazine article about Church Terrell History Chicks podcast part one, part two _Unladylike_ profile of Church Terrell Church Terrell episode of _Encyclopedia Womanica_ _Everyday Black History_ podcast episode on Church Terrell _Girltrek's Black History Bootcamp_ episode on Church Terrell

    Our New Project: Lit Slashing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2021 2:39


    Show Notes Hey Listeners, check out our new project: Lit Slashing, a weekly micro podcast bringing you history's most notorious bad, backhanded, and brutal reviews of literary classics, coming May 25th, 2021. The transcript for this trailer can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co. You can subscribe to our RSS feed here.

    S4:E6 – Mary Church Terrell (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2021 45:38


    Show Notes This episode carries a general content warning for discussion of racism. Timestamps for other potentially triggering content: 08:15 - 08:45 (suicide) 09:40 - 10:00 (rape) 13:40 - 15:15, 15:50 - 16:15 (racist police and gun violence) Sources US National Archives page for Mary Church Terrell Mary Church Terrell. 'What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States'. Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World Library of Congress holdings for Church Terrell Bobby L. Lovett 'Memphis Riots: White Reaction to Blacks in Memphis, May 1865-July 1866' Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38:1 (1979), pp. 9-33   Alison M. Parker. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell. Tyina Steptoe. 'Mary Church Terrell (1863-1964)'. Black Past. SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) cooperative page for Mary Church Terrell US National Archives. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell with Alison M. Parker.

    S4:E5 – Isa Blagden

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2021 37:49


    Show Notes In this episode, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of poet, novelist, and dog-lover, Isa Blagden! (With Courtney's apologies for the episode's lateness. All she can say is: pandemic brain.)

    Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Aimée Duc with Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2021 49:12


    Show Notes We talk to Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam, the editors of a new Broadview Press edition of Aimée Duc's Are They Women?

    Announcement: Delayed Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021


    Show Notes Hi Listeners, this is just a brief announcement to let you know that our next episode will be delayed. Like many of you, we are struggling with this ongoing global pandemic. (laughs) Uhhhh. yeah. yeah. But, we've got some cool things in the works. They're coming soon. Fret not. In the meantime, check the show notes for a list of highly recommended podcasts that you can listen to this Black History Month. Thanks for listening! (Music: Haydn, String Quartet II in B Minor performed by Steve's Bedroom Band) What to listen to in the meantime: Driving The Green Book Cognitive Dissident Function with Anil Dash 1619 This whole list of podcasts collated by the folks at Bello Collective

    Bonus Episode – A Conversation about Isa Blagden with Scheherezade Khan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021


    Show Notes In this episode, we talk to Scheherezade Khan, a masters student at the University of Ottawa, about Isa Blagden and how we can decolonise our approach to Victorian literature. The paper we discussed is Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong. 'Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies' in Victorian Studies Vol. 62, No. 3. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.01). You can find Scheherezade on twitter at twitter.com/arete20

    S4:E4 – Christmas with Fanny Jackson Coppin

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2020


    Show Notes The music used in this episode's break is Charles Wood's 'Ding Dong Merrily on High', performed by Steve's Bedroom Band. Sources Fanny Jackson-Coppin. Reminiscences of School Life; and Hints on Teaching. Digitised by the University of North Carolina. Cassandra Waggoner. ‘Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913). Blackpast Robin Brooks. Looking to Foremothers for Strength: A Brief Biography of the Colored Woman's League. _Women's Studies. Sep 2018, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p609-616_.__ Geraldine J. Clifford. Those Good Gertrudes : A Social History of Women Teachers in America. (2016) James Levy. Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900. American Nineteenth Century History. Mar2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p43-73. Linda M. Perkins. Heed Life's Demands: The Educational Philosophy of Fanny Jackson Coppin_.  _The Journal of Negro Education. Vol. 51 Issue 3, p181-190 Christel N Temple. The Cosmology of Afrocentric Womanism. Western Journal of Black Studies. Spring2012, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p23-32. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76126380&site=eds-live Sources not directly used in episode but of interest Bryan Conn & Tara Bynum. Encyclopedia of African-American Writing : Five Centuries of Contribution: Trials & Triumphs of Writers, Poets, Publications and Organizations. (2018) Kendra R. Parker. Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977–2011 : She Bites Back. (2020) Nazera Sadiq Wright. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. (2016) Support Victorian Scribblers by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    S4:E3 – Gu Taiqing

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2020 56:12


    In Episode 24, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of renowned Chinese ci and shi poet, Gu Taiqing. Transcript coming soon! Sources for this episode: The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History Wang, Yanning. Reverie and Reality : Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women. Geng, Changqin. Mirror, dream and shadow : Gu Taiqing's life and writings. Grant, Beata. "The Poetess and the Precept Master: a Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing," in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, edited by Michel Hockx, et al., This video on the pronunciation of ci and shi Support Victorian Scribblers by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers

    S4:E2 – Pauline Hopkins

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 45:44


    Sources for this episode: Lois Brown. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution Hanna Wallinger. Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance [The Pauline Hopkins Society] (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org) [Black Past article on Hopkins] (https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hopkins-pauline-elizabeth-1859-1930) [Library on Congress. The Grand Army of the Republic] (https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/) [Robert C. Hayden. African Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years] (https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00hayd_0) William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. Documenting the American South Additional resources [The Colored American Magazine] (http://coloredamerican.org/?page_id=548#hopkins) [N. King. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon] (http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67208/1/N%20King%20Teaching%20Af%20Am%20Crime%20Fiction.pdf) [Richard Yarborough, JoAnn Pavletich, Ira Dworkin, and Lauren Dembowitz. 'Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production'] (https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy014) The four men elected in 1870 were Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 and seated in 1870. [Oct. 19, 1870: First African Americans Elected to the House of Representatives] (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/)

    S4:E1 – Season Four Intro

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2020 41:45


    Description Courtney and Eleanor chat about what they've been up to during hiatus / quarantine and what they're hoping to accomplish in Season Four! Things we mentioned: Eleanor's article Call for participants The books mentioned in this episode are: Akala's Natives Janna Thompson's Should Current Generations Make Reparations for Slavery?

    Hiatus Announcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2020 5:20


    Link to our read-along details (the full text of this announcement is included there): http://victorianscribblers.com/quarantine-read-along/Link to a podcast that is heroically providing Covid-19 updates (thanks Erins!): http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/Find us on Twitter: @VS_Podcast

    Hiatus Announcement

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 5:20


    Link to our read-along details (the full text of this announcement is included there): http://victorianscribblers.com/quarantine-read-along/ Link to a podcast that is heroically providing Covid-19 updates (thanks Erins!): http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/ Find us on Twitter: @VS_Podcast

    Episode 21 – Martin R. Delany’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2020 47:15


    Transcript coming soon.The texts read in this episode are True Patriotism and The Attraction of Planets. You can read True Patriotism, along with other information related to Delany on the website of Moonstone Arts Center.The Attraction of Planets can be found on Hathitrust. Note. Some listeners may want to skip The Attraction of Planets. I (Eleanor) think it is interesting and worth paying attention to but there’s a lot of scientific detail, which may not appeal to everyone. If you are so inclined, we move on from this around the 30 minute mark.

    Bonus Episode – A Conversation with Isabel Greenberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2020 46:46


    In this episode, we chat with illustrator and writer, Isabel Greenberg, about her new book, Glass Town, and the Brontës. You can find Isabel on Twitter: @isabelgreenberg, on Instagram, and on her website: https://www.isabelgreenberg.co.uk/U.S. listeners can find Glass Town here on March 3rd: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/glass-town_9781419732683/U.K. listeners can find GlassTown here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115589/glass-town/9781787330832.htmlSome resources about the Brontë juvenilia:British Library “The History of Angria” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bront-juvenilia-the-history-of-angriaBrontë Babe blog: https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/juvenilia-a-z/

    Episode 21 – Martin R. Delany’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2020 47:15


    Transcript coming soon. The texts read in this episode are True Patriotism and The Attraction of Planets. You can read True Patriotism, along with other information related to Delany on the website of Moonstone Arts Center. The Attraction of Planets can be found on Hathitrust.…

    Episode 20 – Martin R. Delany (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2020 50:30


    The third and final part of our biographical coverage of Martin R. Delany. Transcripts and links coming soon.

    Episode 20 – Martin R. Delany (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2020 58:05


    ResourcesGerry Butler. ‘MARTIN ROBISON DELANY (1812-1885)’ Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/delany-major-martin-robison-1812-1885/Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Delany https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Delany_Martin_R_1812-1885African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2000) edited by Emanuel S. Nelson

    Episode 20 – Martin R. Delany (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020 37:27


    ResourcesWhy There’s a West Virginia: https://daily.jstor.org/why-theres-a-west-virginia/Frank A. Rollin. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany: Sub-assistant commisioner bureau relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th US Coloured Troops. Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868.Portrait of Delany in military regalia: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.76.101The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.htmlTRANSCRIPT COMING SOON!

    Episode 20 – Martin R. Delany (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2020 37:27


    Resources Why There’s a West Virginia: https://daily.jstor.org/why-theres-a-west-virginia/ Frank A. Rollin. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany: Sub-assistant commisioner bureau relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th US Coloured Troops. Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868. Portrait of Delany in…

    Bonus Episode – Interview with Jo Turner

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2020 49:29


    An informal chat with Jo Turner, a PhD student at Loughborough University studying Marie Corelli. Jo can be found on twitter at @coppertapestryThe Sorrows of Satan (Film)

    Episode 19 – Marie Corelli’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 42:51


    Show notes coming soon! Find the PDF of “The Happy Life” below. (I’m aware this PDF is not screen reader accessible and am working on remedying that!!) “The Happy Life”DownloadEpisode 19 Transcript: Download~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this advertisement).

    Episode 19 – Marie Corelli’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2020 42:51


    Show notes coming soon! Find the PDF of “The Happy Life” below. (I’m aware this PDF is not screen reader accessible and am working on remedying that!!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this…

    Episode 18 – Beautiful Star of … Apocalypse?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2019 45:47


    Link to “The Star”: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_35TITLE OF EPISODE IN REFERENCE TO: “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” performed by:Rhonda Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGLS5BnLZc The Judds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfhOgpDRxIJudy Garland singing “The Star of the East” (written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890): Our theme music for this episode was “Deck the Halls,” performed by Michel Rondeau, available under a CC attribution 3.0 license.Break / transition music for this episode: https://musopen.org/music/611-etudes-op-25/Bed music used during short story: Podington Bear’s Dark Water (CC attribution 3.0): https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Fathomless_-_Ambienthttps://www.bl.uk/collection-items/illustration-from-the-star-by-h-g-wellshttps://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-WellsSome context on the word “Hottentot”: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987 

    Episode 18 – Beautiful Star of … Apocalypse?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2019


    Link to “The Star”: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_35 TITLE OF EPISODE IN REFERENCE TO:  “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” performed by: Rhonda Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGLS5BnLZc  The Judds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfhOgpDRxI Judy Garland singing “The Star of the East” (written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890):  Our theme music for this…

    Episode 17 – Marie Corelli (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019 50:39


    RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure of Automatic Writing”: https://archive.org/stream/revelationsofspi00farriala/revelationsofspi00farriala_djvu.txt Joanna Turner’s …

    Episode 17 – Marie Corelli (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2019 62:40


    RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure …

    Episode 17 – Marie Corelli (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2019 62:40


    RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure…

    Episode 17 – Marie Corelli (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2019 58:33


    Things we mentioned in this episode: The Victorian Data conference: https://data-caucus.herokuapp.com/ This Victorian authors / penguin height comparison: The Queen of Romania, a secret Victorian Scribbler? See details here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Wied and here https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/queen-marie-romania-papers RESOURCES: Branch article about Wilde’s trial: link here Great resource for Corelli …

    Bonus Episode – NAVSA Data Caucus 2019

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2019 51:25


    Episode 16 – Mary Shelley’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 70:24


    The texts read in this episode can be found at: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (University of Adelaide) History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Gutenberg) The Mortal Immortal

    Episode 16 – Mary Shelley’s Writing

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2019 70:24


    The texts read in this episode can be found at: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (University of Adelaide) History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Gutenberg) The Mortal Immortal

    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Four)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2019 66:36


    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2019 85:20


    Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, rape, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is …

    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2019 85:20


    Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, rape, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is…

    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2019 81:14


    Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is struggling …

    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Two)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2019 81:14


    Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is struggling…

    Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part One)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2019 41:22


    RESOURCES Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon. Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Johanna M. Smith Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing …

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