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She Speaks Volumes: Season 2 Episode 1.
Down Below: Leonora Carrington - surrealism + feminism Down Below written by Leonora Carrington published by NYRB 2017 (originally published 1972).
Excerpts read by: Verna Sorrentino.
https://www.nyrb.com/products/down-below?variant=29716648135
Leonora Carrington was born in April 6, 1917 in Lancashire, England, and died May 25th, 2011 in Mexico City. She studied art in London, and in Italy. In 1937 Carrington moved to Paris, and was a central figure in surrealist circles. She lived in Sant Martin d’Ardeche with her lover Max Ernst before fleeing to Spain as the Nazi’s encroached on France. In Madrid she was involuntarily committed to an asylum. After her treatment she managed to evade being sent to a sanatorium in South Africa by her parents. She married Renato Leduc and moved to Mexico City, where she would live for most of the rest of her life. A complete biography is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#Mexico
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S2:E2: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and Female Friendship.
Excerpts from The Hearing Trumpet are ready by Verna Sorrentino
This episode is based on The NYRB edition of The Hearing Trumpet published in 2021.
The Hearing Trumpet was written in the 1950s, and was originally published in 1974.
Listen to the SSV episode on Carrington's Down Below
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011[1]) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s.[2] Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.[3][4] read more
Research Links:
Leonora Carrington's - Art work: https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonora-carringtonMuseo Leonora Carrington: https://www.leonoracarringtonmuseo.orgArticle about Carrington and Varo: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615/love-friendship-rivalry-surreal-friends
Books I used for research:
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead.Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art by Susan L. AlberthMagia,...

She Speaks Volumes is created by Daniella Sorrentino
CREDITS:
Voice-Actors + Narrators
Margaret Alice Murray, excerpts from witchcraze read by Verna Sorrentino
Scottish Witches: Marnie Thompson, JP Wright, Susan Harden
Joan of Arc: @katsuky
Interviews with:
Yvonne Owens
Dr Liz Williams
LINKS TO PURCHASE or READ BOOKS REFERENCED: detailed bibliography below.
Witch Cults in Western Europe
Witchcraze
Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art
Miracles of Our Own Making
ResearchBBC Bitesize. “Case Study: James vi and the North Berwick Witch Hunt.” Accessed May 29, 2023. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj77xbk/articles/zmr6hcw.
Dictionaries of the Scots Language. “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” n.d. https://dsl.ac.uk/.
King, James, G B Harrison, and James Carmichael. King James the First, Daemonologie (1597) : Newes from Scotland, Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of Doctor Fian, a Notable Sorcerer Who Was Burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary Last (1591). San Diego, Ca: Book Tree, 2002.
Llewellyn Barstow, Anne . Witchcraze : A New History of the European Witch Hunts. New York, N.Y.: Harperone, 1994.
Murray, Margaret Alice. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, 1921.
Owens, Yvonne. Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art : The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien. London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.
saint-joan-of-arc.com. “Joan of Arc: Trial of Condemnation Searchable Transcipt,” n.d. https://saint-joan-of-arc.com/trial-condemnation.htm.
Williams, Liz. MIRACLES of OUR OWN MAKING : A History of Paganism. S.L.: Reaktion Books, 2021.

She Speaks Volumes S1-E1: A Room of One’s Own 
This is a re-vamp of the original episode
A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf, 1929 
Originally published by Hogarth press.  This edition published by Penguin Random House
Also available at Gutenberg:  http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/woolfv-aroomofonesown/woolfv-aroomofonesown-00-h.html 
Excerpts read by: Fiona Thraille
Episode Glossary:
The Verneys: A prominent British family that left a legacy of letters and papers detailing life until 1693. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verney_family_of_Middle_Claydon
The Hutchinsons: I am not sure….
Cleopatra: Queen of the Ptolemaic Region: 51–30 BC  - VW is referencing Shakespeare’s tragedy: Anthony and Cleopatra. 
Lady MacBeth: From Shakespeare’s Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbeth 
Rosalind: From Shakespeare’s As You Like It. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_(As_You_Like_It) 
Clytemnestra: raped and forced into marriage by the tyrant Agamemnon, she avenged herself and the death of her eldest daughter Iphigenia by murdering him with the help of her lover Aegisthus. 
Antigone: In Greek mythology Antigone is the daughter of Jocasta and her son Oedipus (Oedipus Rex), VW’s reference is most likely to the play and charchter in Sophocles play Antigone. 
Phaedra: Cretan princess, half-sister of the Minotaur. Phaedra falls passionately in love with her stepson Hippolytus, but it is unrequited. Phaedra tells her husband Theseus that Hippolytus tried to rape her and Theseus calls in a favour from Posiedon who summons a bull from the sea that scares his horse and kills Hippolytus. 
Cressida: refers most likely to Shakespeare’s Cressida, from the play Troilus and Cressida, which is based on the Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato, a telling of a Trojan legend originally by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cressida 
Desdemona: From Shakespeare’s play Othello: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desdemona 
The Duchess of Malfi: A play by John Webster premiered 1614, about the Italian aristocrat Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_d%27Aragona,_Duchess_of_Amalfi 
Millamant: from the play The Way of the World by William Congreve, a restoration comedy that premiered in 1700. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_World 
Clarissa: The main character in the novel ‘a...

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Created by: Daniella Sorrentino. Feral Culture Lab - feralculturelab.com 
Episode 2: The Book of the City of Ladies:
Written by Christine de Pizan - 1405 
Excerpts read by: Leanne Woodward: https://www.leannenarrates.com 
Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:
The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html
My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998
https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies
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Christine de Pisan: Christine de Pisan, (born 1364, Venice [Italy]—died c. 1430), prolific and versatile French poet and author whose diverse writings include numerous poems of courtly love, a biography of Charles V of France, and several works championing women.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christine-de-Pisan
The British Library has a digitized copy of The Book of the City of Ladies, illuminated by Christine de Pizan. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies 
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Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She (co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn), Myth, Montage and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea. 2003, and is the author of "Christine de Pizan: gender, authorship and life-writing," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature 2008, p. 123-135. I will post a bibliography for her on my website. Show notes will be updated to reflect this. 
Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:
The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html
My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998
https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies
PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore - 

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