ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling

“Prozac Nation is a young person’s book, both in terms of its author and its target audience…What seemed most important to me about Wurtzel’s writing was that she had been messy, and she was willing to detail that mess without apology…It was a radical departure from how I’d seen women write about themselves…Whether we like it or not, Prozac Nation really did change the landscape when it comes to the way women write about themselves. It laid the groundwork for the what Jia Tolentino called the “personal-essay boom” of the early 2010s, an era when no detail was too graphic, no humiliation too private for sharing.”
 
It’s important to understand what was going on in the culture at this time. Prozac had just become popular, and record numbers of people were being diagnosed with depression. The chart topping artists were Depeche Mode, Nirvana, and Nine Inch Nails, bands whose messages were those of apathy and wallowing in despair, and a few months before Prozac Nation was published, Kurt Cobain committed suicide. There was a problem, but people were also wary of how we were treating it. 
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch: 
http://importantadult.com
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html

This week Sovereign Syre and Ela Darling profile writer and icon, Elizabeth Wurtzel. A beautiful, young, Harvard graduate whose memoir Prozac Nation got her on the New York Times Bestseller List and made her an overnight celebrity. She also suffered from major depression and was one of the first people to be prescribed the drug Prozac.  She was both a media darling, and roundly mocked by others, for what was precieved as a kind of narcissism endemic of a news generation, a cohort labeled Gen X. 
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Sources:
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/no Elizabeth_Wurtzel
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html
https://lithub.com/how-did-elizabeth-wurtzel-survive-us/
https://www.curbed.com/2022/10/elizabeth-wurtzel-auction.html
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-chaotic-beautiful-larks-of-elizabeth-wurtzel
https://longreads.com/2019/09/25/prozac-nation-turns-25/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/11/7/archives-elizabeth-wurtzel/
https://observer.com/2006/03/the-liars-club-an-incomplete-history-of-untruths-and-consequences/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/25/books/rambunctious-with-tears.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/177392370/?match=1&terms=Elizabeth%20Wurtzel
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/08/with-prozac-nation-elizabeth-wurtzel-blew-open-the-memoir-as-we-know-it
https://litfemme.substack.com/p/ive-been-thinking-about-elizabeth
https://www.thecut.com/2013/01/elizabeth-wurtzel-on-self-help.html
 
 

Roselyn “Rosie” Keo was the daughter of Cambodian refugees. When she was younger, her parents got caught up in gambling and nightlife, taking off for Atlantic City, leaving Rosie and her siblings to be raised by their elderly grandparents. She was a wild child, getting in fights, having bad boyfriends, typical teenage rebel stuff. She was growing up Rockland County, and by the age of 17, she dropped out of school and got a job working at New York City Diner to help with expenses at home. There was a gentleman’s club nearby called, Lace, and the dancers would often come into the diner after their shifts. One night a manager at Lace tipped her $20 bucks on a $20 dollar ticket and told her she should hit up the club if she was interested in making “real money.” Soon after she went to the club, lied about her age, and started working the pole.  What followed became the basis for the hit film Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez, Lizzo and Cardi B. 
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch: 
http://importantadult.com
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources: 
https://jessicapressler.com/the-hustlers-at-scores/498
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/movies/hustlers-real-story.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jennifer-lopez-hustlers-samantha-barbash-lawsuit-934721/
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/samantha-barbash-real-ramona-hustlers-lawsuit
https://time.com/5671735/hustlers-movie-true-story/
https://www.msk.com/newsroom-alerts-2901
https://nypost.com/2017/04/05/stripper-gets-probation-for-drugging-clients-taking-their-money/

It's the end of Season Two! We did it! This week we conclude our series on Ada Lovelace. 
In September 1843, Ada Lovelace published her paper on the Analytical Engine in Scientific Memoirs under the title "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator.". Ada was 27 years old, an aristocratic, married mother of three children at the time. Her final published paper included seven important Notes labeled A-G that contained her observations, her assertions, and, it turns out, her legacy...she also cooked up a scheme to use her mathmatical skills to run a gambling operation to fund the building of said engine. Depsite her mother's efforts, Ada Lovelace would turn out to be just as corruptable as her notorious father, Lord Byron. 
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch: 
http://importantadult.com
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources  Bromley, Allan G.. "Analytical engine." Encyclopedia of Computer Science. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., GBR, 2003, pp. 65–67.
Essinger, James. Ada’s Algorithm. Gibson Square, Ltd, London, 2014.
Hammerman, Robin, and Andrew L. Russell. Ada's Legacy: Cultures of Computing from the Victorian to the Digital Age. ACM Books. Morgan & Claypool, 2015.
Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace." BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, vol. 32, no. 3, 2017, pp. 221-234, DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2017.1325297.
Hollings, Christopher, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. "The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal." Historia Mathematica, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017, pp. 202-231, ISSN 0315-0860, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2017.04.001.
Horvat, Robert. "Five Interesting Portraits of Ada Lovelace, the First Pioneer of Computer Science." The Rearview Mirror, November 6, 2022. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://the-rearview-mirror.com/2022/11/06/five-interesting-portraits-of-ada-lovelace-the-first-pioneer-of-computer-science/
Hughes, Matthew. “How Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, Changed the World.” Make Use Of, Oct 13, 2015. Accessed April 5, 2024. https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ada-lovelace-day-woman-changed-face-tech/
Mayne, Ethel Colburn, and Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron Byron. The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, from Unpublished Papers in the Possession of the Late Ralph, Earl of Lovelace. C. Scribner’s Sons, 1929.
Robledo, Edqin. "What Was the First Computer?" Autodesk, Nov 8, 2022. Accessed April 6, 2024. https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/first-computer-around-century-ago/
Seymour, Miranda. In Byron’s Wake. Pegasus Books, 2018.
Stein, Dorothy. Ada: A Life and a Legacy. MIT Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1087.001.0001
Wolfram, Stephen. "Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace." Wired, December 22, 2015. Accessed April 11, 2024. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter. AU: Pan Macmillan, February 1999. ISBN 978-0-333-72436-1, retrieved 4 April 2024.
Zarevich, Emily. "When Lord Byron Tried to Buy a Twelve-Year-Old Girl." JSTOR Daily, August 9, 2023. https://daily.jstor.org/when-lord-byron-tried-to-buy-a-twelve-year-old-girl/
 
--------
 
Ada Lovelace: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Women in History). 2019. Hourly History.
Adams, Beverly. Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer. Pen & Sword Books Limited. 2023.
Essinger, James (2013). A Female Genius: How Ada Lovelace Started the Computer Age. UK: Gibson Square Books Ltd.
Moore, Doris Langley. Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter. Harper & Row, 1977.
Bromley, Allan G. (1990). "Difference and Ana

 “Plot: A young wife is suddenly widowed. Left with four children. She is totally unskilled for the labor market, and deeply in debt. Her home and all she has are repossessed. However… she has one choice. She is the sole heir to a tremendous fortune. If she can deceive her dying father, and never let him know she is the mother of four children whom he would despise. “Four children are imprisoned in an upstairs room of a huge mansion. Their playground is the attic. The two older children are twelve and ten, named Christopher and Cathy. The younger two are twins, age three when they go to live upstairs.
“Without sunlight, Cory and Carrie cannot grow. Their lives become a virtual endurance test to outlive the dying grandfather, who stays always on the first floor, taken care of by a private duty nurse, and a staff of servants. “The years pass. The grandfather doesn’t die. The mother marries again and gradually drifts away from her children.” In her letter, Virginia emphasizes that the children’s grandmother considers them “the devil’s issue. Born out of unholy wedlock between half-niece and half-uncle. I call my novel, which is not truly fiction… FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC.”
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch: 
http://importantadult.com
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources: 
https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/flowers-author-vc-andrews-life-was-as-creepy-as-her-novels/
The Woman Beyond The Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/20/blooms-of-darkness/7e133556-82cd-43a0-94a6-03738d628099/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic
https://youtu.be/J8s-P9Cy6DQ?si=zmllGBz62KkdeqYC
https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/completevcandrews/recluse.htm
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/92711-becoming-v-c-andrews.html
 

In today's episode, we discuss VC Andrews, a writer who created her own genre of fiction and scandalized a generation of young female readers. We cover Virginia's early life, her emergence as a writer, and the real life inspiration for her most famous novel, Flowers In The Attic. 
Contact Us: 
illreputepod@gmail.com
Follow Us: 
ILL REPUTE! links: http://linktr.ee/illreputepod
Sovereing Syre’s links: http://linktr.ee/sovereignsyre
Ela Darling’s links: http://zez.am/eladarling
Merch: 
http://importantadult.com
Support Us: 
http://patreon.com/illrepute
Sources: 
https://nypost.com/2022/03/12/flowers-author-vc-andrews-life-was-as-creepy-as-her-novels/
The Woman Beyond The Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/20/blooms-of-darkness/7e133556-82cd-43a0-94a6-03738d628099/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic
https://youtu.be/J8s-P9Cy6DQ?si=zmllGBz62KkdeqYC
https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/completevcandrews/recluse.htm