Victorian Scribblers

Courtney Floyd and Eleanor Dumbill

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Victorian Scribblers Podcast

Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the nineteenth-century writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (queer science-fiction writer extraordinaire) and beyond. Hosted by Dr. Courtney Floyd, a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and print culture, and Dr. Eleanor Dumbill, a specialist in Victorian literature and publishing.

30/09/2022

Charles Elmé Francatelli

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

33 min
27/05/2022

May 2022 Episode Delays

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

3 min
25/03/2022

Timeline: 1851-1860

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

39 min
25/02/2022

Eliza Acton

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

49 min
28/01/2022

Timeline: 1836-1850

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

22 min
21/01/2022

Victorian Scribblers Trailer

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
31/12/2021

A Cup o' Kindness for Auld Lang Syne

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.

52 min
24/12/2021

All I Want for Christmas is Improved Working Conditions for All

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.

16 min

21/01/2022

Victorian Scribblers Trailer

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

21/01/2022

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Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the nineteenth-century writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (queer science-fiction writer extraordinaire) and beyond. Hosted by Dr. Courtney Floyd, a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and print culture, and Dr. Eleanor Dumbill, a specialist in Victorian literature and publishing.

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Courtney Floyd and Eleanor Dumbill
Years Active

2017 - 2022
Episodes

86
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Clean
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