Lost Ladies of Lit

Barbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal parts enchanting and horrific. Joining us is Avril Horner, author of "Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence," who offers insight into Comyns' unique blend of dark humor and her empathetic portrayals of vulnerable protagonists. Graham Greene was a fan and wrote of her, “The strange offbeat talent of Miss Comyns and that innocent eye which observes with childlike simplicity the most fantastic or the most ominous of occurrences, these have never, I think, before been more impressively exercised than in ‘The Vet’s Daughter.’” We discuss that novel as well as her autobiographical “Our Spoons Came from Woolworths.” Discussed in this episode: "Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence” by Avril Horner “The Vet’s Daughter” by Barbara Comyns “Our Spoons Came from Woolworths” by Barbara Comyns Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was finally published four years after her death. Discovering the novel in a Cairo market some 30 years later launched acclaimed Egyptian writer Iman Mersal on a decades-long, life-altering quest to solve the many mysteries about al-Zayyat’s life, death and legacy. Mersal joins us in this episode to discuss the recent English translation of her award-winng 2019 book, Traces of Enayat, and the nexus between al-Zayyat’s story and her own. Mentioned in this episode: Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts by Iman Mersal The Threshold by Iman Mersal Love and Silence by Enayat al-Zayyat The Open Door by Latifa al-Zayyat The Open Door film Egyptian Actress Nadia Lutfi City of the Dead cemetery in Cairo Ludwig Keimer German Institute of Antiquities Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-time O. Henry award-winner penned 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry and 11 collections of short fiction, yet too few readers today have read her work or even know her name. Returning guest Anne Boyd Rioux joins us this week to discuss Kay Boyle’s audacious life and her lasting impact on literature. Mentioned in this episode: Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle Avalanche by Kay Boyle Audacious Women, Creative Lives Substack by Anne Boyd Rioux For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein Broom literary magazine Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle The Armory Show of 1913 Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 11 on Constance Fenimore Woolson Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 108 on Lola Ridge Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 98 on Heterodoxy Ernest Walsh James Joyce Lawrence Vail Robert McAlmon William Carlos Williams Marianne Moore Jean Toomer The Revolution of the Word Raymond Duncan Joseph von Franckenstein Five Days One Summer film starring Sean Connery Meg, Joe, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux The Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson “Wedding Day” by Kay Boyle “The White Horses of Vienna” by Kay Boyle “Maiden, Maiden” by Kay Boyle “The Diplomat’s Wife” by Kay Boyle “Security” by Kay Boyle “A Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

In this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An outspoken, rabble-rousing poet who championed Irish independence, she stirred up members of the Young Ireland movement while writing for Dublin’s radical newspaper “The Nation” in the 1840s. Oscar may have inherited his mother’s wit, intellect and larger-than-life personality, but his later legal troubles were also preceded by her own very public and scandalous libel case. Mentioned in this episode: The Rest is History podcast on the trials of Oscar Wilde The Nation “Jacta Alea Est” by Speranza “The Poet’s Destiny” by Speranza “The Famine Year” by Speranza Charles Gavan Duffy Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin William Wilde (Oscar Wilde’s father) “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Mary Travers libel case The grave of Lady Jane Wilde Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us for a lightning-round quiz pitting quotations from Elizabeth Taylor the actress vs. Elizabeth Taylor the author! Test your knowledge and join in the fun! For the full forty-minute episode in which we discuss the author Taylor's writing and also confab on Roger Lewis's Erotic Vagrancy, the dishy 2023 biography of film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, visit our Patreon: Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Get ready to fall hopelessly in love with Emilie Loring, a New England native whose prolific output of richly-detailed romance novels feature the sort of charming characters and snappy dialogue reminiscent of films like The Philadelphia Story and It Happened One Night. Loring’s 30 years of commercial success continued long after her death in 1950, prompting publishers to sell ghost-written “Emilie Loring” novels that continued to sell by the tens of millions. Having read each of Loring’s novels at least 50 times each, guest Patti Bender joins us this week to talk about the author’s captivating life and work as told in her 2023 biography Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom. 00:00 Introduction to Lost Ladies of Lit 02:04 Guest Introduction: Patti Bender, Emilie Loring's Biographer 05:19 Emilie Loring's Family: A Legacy of Creativity 08:15 Emilie Loring's Marriage and Early Life 10:37 Emilie's Writing Journey: Persistence and Passion 12:32 Exploring Emilie Loring's Romantic Novels 14:04 Diving into 'Uncharted Seas': An Emilie Loring Novel 22:26 The Role of Books During Difficult Times 25:35 Emilie's Legacy: Her Continued Popularity 27:28 Must-Read Loring Titles 28:45 The Hollywood Connection: Emilie's Stories and the Silver Screen 29:21 The Pulitzer Nomination 33:48 The Power of Re-reading: Emilie's Books as Comfort Food 35:15 Conclusion: The Lasting Impact of Emilie's Stories Mentioned in this Episode Hallmark movie Her Pen Pal Happy Landings: Emilie Loring’s Life, Writing and Wisdom by Patti Bender Lee and Shepard Publishing George Melville Baker’s “Among the Breakers” Snappy Stories Uncharted Seas by Emilie Loring The ghosts of Stone House in Blue Hill, Maine The Philadelphia Story It Happened One Night National Velvet by Enid Bagnold Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Blogger, podcaster and consultant for the British Library Women Writers series Simon Thomas returns to the show to discuss Angela Milne’s 1942 novel One Year’s Time. The book follows a year in the life of a 1930s-era “bachelor girl” named Liza who lives in London. Milne, the niece of Winnie the Pooh author A.A. Milne, was a contributor to Punch magazine, and her snappy wit shines bright in this charming and surprisingly modern novel. Fans of the Netflix series One Day will be particularly drawn to the book’s heroine and her gorgeous-but-commitment-phobic beau. 00:00 Introduction to Lost Ladies of Lit 02:04 Introducing the Guest Speaker: Simon Thomas 03:39 Exploring Angela Milne's Early Life 05:04 Angela Milne's Career Transition to Writing 06:11 Angela Milne's Experience as a Land Girl 07:23 Angela Milne's Contribution to Punch Magazine 09:11 Diving into Angela Milne's Novel: One Year's Time 10:00 Analyzing the Characters and their Interactions 15:01 The Concept of 'Bachelor Girl' in the Novel 22:10 The Search for Security in Marriage 22:41 The Power of Words and the Fear of Rejection 23:39 The Illusion of Safety in Marriage 24:44 Liza’s Fear of Confrontation 25:43 Reading an excerpt from the novel 28:17 The Misunderstandings in Love 28:53 The Charm of Walter 31:28 The Modernity of the Story 34:25 The Journey to Republish the Book 37:27 Angela Milne's Writing Life 38:40 The Conclusion Mentioned in this episode One Year’s Time by Angela Milne British Library Women Writers series Tea or Books? podcast Stuck in a Book blog Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 83 on Dorothy Evelyn Smith Lost ladies of Lit episode No. 161 on An England Travelogue A.A. Milne Punch magazine Peggy Ashcroft Land girls Rachel Ferguson Nöel Coward “A Woolworth Wedding” by R.P. Weston and Burt Lee Jam and Genius by Angela Milne Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

A pioneer of the detective/mystery genre who began writing locked-room mystery novels a decade before Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells was a turn-of-the-twentieth century celebrity who counted Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Mark Twain among her many famous friends and fans. Guest Rebecca Rego Barry, whose new book is The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations Into a Forgotten Mystery Author, joins us to discuss Wells and her 1936 detective novel, Murder in the Bookshop. Discussed in this episode: Arthur Conan Doyle Anna Katharine Green The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author by Rebecca Rego Barry Agatha Christie Fine Books and Collections magazine Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of American Authors Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 114 On Elsie Robinson Walden by Henry David Thoreau Murder in the Bookshop by Carolyn Wells Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells The “Patty” books by Carolyn Wells CrimeReads.com Murder of the Unknown Woman Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 112 on Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything Main Street by Sinclair Lewis Ptomaine Street by Caroline Wells Lost Ladies of Lit Patreon page Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Zelda Fitzgerald is known as “the first American flapper” and an icon of the Jazz Age, but you may be surprised to learn that beneath the glittering facade, there was substance—and literary talent. Her sole published novel, “Save Me the Waltz,” is a poignant blend of beauty and biography that draws on her complex personal narrative, including her childhood in Alabama, her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and her attempt to become a professional ballerina in Paris at the age of 25. Joining us is Stephanie Peebles Tavera, an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University Kingsville and author of the 2022 work “(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship,” from Edinburgh University Press. An essay Stephanie wrote about Zelda and “Save Me the Waltz” will be included in an upcoming collection called “American Writers in Paris: Then and Now.” Discussed in this episode: Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 135 on Zelda’s Paper Dolls “Save Me the Waltz” by Zelda Fitzgerald (Handheld Press) “(P)rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship” by Stephanie Peebles Tavera Helen Brent, M.D. by Annie Nathan Meyer Paris Opera Ballet “Zelda” by Nancy Milford “This Side of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald “Tender Is the Night” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Maxwell Perkins Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

As Merchant Ivory super fans, we were surprised (and chagrined!) that we’d been unaware of Ismael Merchant and James Ivory’s longtime collaborator, novelist and Academy Award winning-screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Hollywood screenwriter Brigitte Hales joins us to discuss Jhabvala and her Booker Prize-winning 1975 novel, Heat and Dust. Discussed in this episode: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Brigitte Hales Disenchanted (2022 film) Merchant Ivory Productions A Room with a View (1985 film) Howard’s End (1992 film) The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Nissim Ezekiel The Householder (1963 film) Heat and Dust (1983 film) Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

New full-length episodes beginning Jan. 30. Edna Ferber’s So Big was the top-selling novel of 1924 and it won a Pulitzer Prize, yet it’s little known now! Wildly popular in its day, So Big was adapted for film three times, the second of which (in 1932) starred Barbara Stanwyck and featured a young Bette Davis in one of her earliest roles. Join us for a discussion of the book and the 1932 film with Dr. Caroline Frick from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at University of Texas, Austin. Discussed in this episode: So Big by Edna Ferber Saving Cinema: The Politics of Preservation by Caroline Frick Texas Archive of the Moving Image L.A. Story (1991 film) Showboat by Edna Ferber Cimarron by Edna Ferber Algonquin Round Table Anti-Semitism Yiddish Buttered Side Down by Edna Ferber Dawn O’Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber Alan Hale Skipper on Gilligan's Island My Antonia by Willa Cather pre-code Hollywood MPAA rating system Barbara Stanwyck So Big (1932 film) Baby Face (1933 film) Cabbage Patch Kid Dorothy Canfield Fisher and The Home-Maker on Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 9 Warner Bros. Cimarron (1931 film) Academy Award Bette Davis The Farmer’s Wife (1998 PBS documentary) Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is the only one of its kind to feature a racially-conscious Black heroine at its center. Dr. Leigh-Michil George, a lecturer in the English Department at Geffen Academy at UCLA, joins us to discuss the novel and its historical importance as well as its influence on Regency-era television adaptations of Sanditon and Bridgerton. Discussed in this episode: The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press) Dr. Leigh-Michil George Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Sanditon (PBS) Bridgerton (Netflix) Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn Sanditon by Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Elizabeth Bennett Caroline Bingley Netherfield Park Jamaica “Black People in Britain During the Regency” (National Portrait Gallery) “The Abolition of Slavery in Britain” (Historic UK) Olivia Carpenter (University of York) Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

New episodes beginning January 30. Ready for some Edwardian Era YA? Set in Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Hart Lovelace’s delightful Besty-Tacy series is closely based on the author’s idyllic midwestern childhood. In this week’s episode we’re discussing the four books that span Betsy’s high school years (1906-1910): Heaven To Betsy, Betsy in Spite of Herself, Betsy Was a Junior, and Betsy and Joe with our guest, culture writer and editor Sadie Stein. Discussed in this episode: Heaven To Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace Sadie Stein Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery “Stars in the Sky: A Tribute to Betsy-Tacy” (Jezebel) Carrie Bradshaw Jo March Meg March Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett Gibson Girl The Black Angels by Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy’s Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery Ethel Barrymore American Graffiti (1973) Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Mer Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Back with new episodes on January 30. Lucia Berlin has been called one of America's "best kept secrets.” We’ll be discussing Berlin’s engrossing short short story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women, published posthumously in 2015 and soon to be adapted for the screen by Pedro Almodovar. Joining us is a longtime friend of Berlin’s, the inimitable Mimi Pond, a cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. Discussed in this episode: A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” A Manual for Cleaning Women adaptation (Pedro Almodovar) Over-Easy by Mimi Pond The Customer Is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond Mimi Pond on Instagram The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Did you know there was a controversial, now-forgotten 1888 novel written in response to George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda by a writer who has been described as “the Jewish Jane Austen?” Until recently, neither did we. Join us as we talk with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith about author Amy Levy and her stunning, sardonic novel Reuben Sachs, which fan and friend Oscar Wilde deemed a classic. Discussed in this episode: Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy from Persephone Books Oscar Wilde Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith on Amy Levy and Ellen Wordsworth Darwin “Swotting Up” by Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith (TLS) Cambridge Ladies’ Dining Society Blog Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nathalia Crane - Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 13 Brighton and Hove High School Newnham College, Cambridge University Amy Levy’s obituary by Oscar Wilde Ellen Wordsworth Darwin Cambridge in the Long by Amy Levy Eleanor Marx Vernon Lee/Violet Paget The Jewish Chronicle The Romance of a Shop by Amy Levy Julia Neuberger Emile Zola Alphonse Daudet Anthony Trollope A Suppressed Cry by Victoria Glendinning The Third Miss Symons by F.M. Mayor The Rector’s Daughter by F.M. Mayor Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Sisters Jane and Mary Findlater were literary celebrities in their day and counted the likes of Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Rudyard Kipling among their admirers. We’ll be discussing one of their joint efforts, Crossriggs, which is considered their finest work. Joining us are Hollywood screenwriting sisters Julie and Shawna Benson who worked on the CW’s critically-acclaimed series The 100 and Netflix’s Wu Assassins. Discussed in this episode: The Brontes Henry James Virginia Woolf Rudyard Kipling Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Benson Sisters Emma Approved Jeopardy! Nora and Delia Ephron Bewitched You’ve Got Mail Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien White Christmas Mean Girls The Green Graves of Balgowrie by Jane Findlater Ellen Terry Lady Dorothy Gray The Downton Abbey Christmas Special The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Affair at the Inn by Jane Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAuley, and Kate Douglas Wiggin Mary Cholmondeley Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Emma by Jane Austen Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

We're back with all new episodes on Jan. 30, 2024. Join us for a wonderfully funny and poignant conversation about life, death, and motherhood with award-winning writer Hilma Wolitzer. Her short stories, most of them originally appearing in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, were re-discovered by her daughter, bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and published last summer in a new collection earning great critical acclaim. Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket has received rave reviews from authors like Elizabeth Strout, Lauren Groff, and Tayari Jones and was named an NPR Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Discussed in this episode: Today A Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) Ending by Hilma Wolitzer All That Jazz (1979 film) An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer Meg Wolitzer Elizabeth Strout Lauren Groff Tayari Jones Gail Godwin Lost Ladies of Lit Episode with Anne Zimmerman on M.F.K. Fisher Maurice Sendak Jane Austen Anatole Broyard The Lost Daughter (2021 film) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer The Saturday Evening Post Downton Abbey “Sometimes I Tell Myself” by Hilma Wolitzer Other People’s Houses by Lore Segal Her First American by Lore Segal Small Moments by Nancy Huddleston Packer Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Join us as we discuss Mary McCarthy’s best-known work, The Group, published in 1963. An instant hit, it remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years and follows eight friends over the course of seven years following their graduation from Vassar College in 1933. It was banned in Australia, Ireland, and Italy for its frank discussion of topics ranging from sex and contraception to lesbianism and mental illness. Discussed in this episode: Lost Ladies of Lit Patreon Wait List Norman Mailer’s review of The Group Trailer for Sidney Lumet’s film adaptation of The Group Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 112 on Rona Jaffe’s The Best of Everything Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 142 on Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 138 on Ursula Parrott’s Ex Wife Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 10 on A Falling Out Among Friends (Willa Cather’s feud with Dorothy Canfield Fisher) Lost Ladies of Lit episode No. 159 on Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens Vassar Daisy Chain Mary McCarthy’s The Group The Groves of Academe The Company She Keeps Memories of a Catholic Girlhood The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt Feud with Lilian Hellman Imaginary Friends by Nora Ephron Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

In this week’s bonus episode, we dig into the poem “Thanksgiving” by lost lady Lydia Maria Child. AND we remain ever thankful for you, our listeners! Discussed in this episode: Lydia Maria Child: A Radical American Life by Lydia Moland “The Thanksgiving Poem” The Paul Curtis House The Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child The Mother’s Book by Lydia Maria Child An Appeal in Favor of the Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child Flowers for Children: Part 2 “1900 House” television show Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 63 on M.F.K. Fisher How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

Novelist 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 Céspedes Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes Muriel Rukeyser poem “Kathë Kollwitz” Hell or High Water by Joy Castro Flight Risk by Joy Castro Island of Bones by Joy Castro One Brilliant Flame by Joy Castro The Truth Book by Joy Castro “Burning It Down” by Joy Castro Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Margery Latimer Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Miriam Karpilove Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Lorraine Hansberry Literary scholar Merve Emre Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter Mercé Rodoreda Elena Ferrante Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Kate Chop Support the Show. For episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Discuss episodes on our Facebook Forum. Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast