Lost Ladies of Lit

Amy Helmes & Kim Askew
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Lost Ladies of Lit

A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.

  1. 11小时前

    Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass

    Send us a textIf you’re drawn to the hefty tomes of Victorian authors Anthony Trollope and George Eliot, we can pretty much guarantee you’ll enjoy this week’s novel, Hester, as much as we did. Margaret Oliphant is said to have been one of Queen Victoria’s favorite novelists, and she counted J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson among her many fans. Joining us to discuss Hester is New York Times columnist and pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass. Discussed in this episode: Hester by Ma...

    45 分钟

  2. 1月14日

    🔒 Adventures in Highgate Cemetery

    Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textThis week’s episode was born out of Amy’s recent visit to London’s Highgate Cemetery, where fortuitous timing (or, perhaps, the graveside spirit of Christina Rossetti?) revealed a bit of juicy family drama. Find out why the tragic death (and later exhumation) of a pre-Raphaelite muse left another family member begging to not be buried next to her in the Rossetti family plot!Mentioned in this episode:Christina RossettiElizabeth SiddalDante Gabriel RossettiG...

    14 分钟

  3. 1月7日

    Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song

    Send us a textIn this week's hiatus replay, we’re focusing on one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and playwrights, Laryssa Kosach, who wrote under the pen name Lesya Ukrainka. Her play The Forest Song is a masterpiece of Ukrainian drama. Discussed in this episode: The Forest Song by Lesya UkrainkaLooking for Trouble by Virginia CowlesLost Ladies of Lit episode on Virginia Cowles’ Looking for Trouble Invisible Battalion (2017 documentary)“Ukraine Isn’t Part of Littl...

    16 分钟

  4. 2024/12/31 · 附赠内容

    🔒 Simona Kossak, Forest Queen

    Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textOnce upon a time, a young woman escaped to a primeval forest, befriended the animals there (including a lynx, raven and wild boar) and met her handsome prince. Sounds like a fairy tale, but in this week’s episode Amy discusses the enchanting true story of Simona Kossak, a Polish scientist who wrote about her deep love for the Bialowieza Forest and worked tirelessly to protect it. Poland awarded Kossak the Golden Cross of Merit for her ecological efforts be...

    16 分钟

  5. 2024/12/24

    Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro

    Send us a textNovelist and university professor Joy Castro returns to the show to discuss the 1952 novel Forbidden Notebook by Cuban-Italian writer Alba de Cespedes. In a New York Times review of a 1958 English edition of this novel, de Céspedes was called “one of the few distinguished women writers since Colette to grapple effectively with what it is to be a woman.” Discussed in this episode: Forbidden Notebook by Alba de CéspedesHer Side of the Story by Alba de CéspedesMuriel Ruke...

    49 分钟

  6. 2024/12/17 · 附赠内容

    🔒 Literary Rx — Books to Beat the Doldrums

    Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textBooks are a time-tested cure-all, so in this week’s bonus episode Amy weighs a few of the titles that have helped her forget life's latest troubles and doubts … (sort of). She leaves no stone unturned in her quest for distraction, from Proust’s meandering sentences to a behind-the-scenes memoir about a beloved ’80s film and a charming, century-old suffrage novel that captures our current political zeitgeist. Rounding out the episode is a sneak peak at “los...

    24 分钟

  7. 2024/12/10

    Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch

    Send us a textAt the age of eight, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (later known by her pen name Zitkála-Šá) left her Yankton Dakota reservation to attend a missionary boarding school for Native Americans, a harsh and abusive experience about which she eventually wrote a series of articles published in The Atlantic Monthly. Jessi Haley, editorial director of Cita Press (which just published a free anthology of the author’s work) joins Yankton Dakota poet Erin Marie Lynch to discuss how Zitkála-Šá’s se...

    43 分钟

  8. 2024/12/03 · 附赠内容

    🔒 A Christmas Tale From Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses

    Subscriber-only episodeSend us a textForget your troubles, get cozy, grab a cup of tea and curl up to this week’s “storytime” bonus episode as Amy reads the third tale from Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses. Follow Rossetti’s indefatigable heroine, Maggie, who trudges wearily through a snowy forest at Christmas-time, encountering along the way strange children who attempt to lead her astray.For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.comDiscuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. ...

    20 分钟
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A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.

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  • 创作者
    Amy Helmes & Kim Askew
  • 活跃年份
    2020年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    230
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
  • 版权
    © 2025 Lost Ladies of Lit
  • 节目网站
    Lost Ladies of Lit

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