Lost Ladies of Lit
By Amy Helmes & Kim Askew
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Episodes: 186
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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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Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet’s Daughter with Avril Horner
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May 07, 2024 |
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Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Speranza, a.k.a Oscar Wilde’s Mom
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Whose Line is it Anyway? Elizabeth Taylor vs. Elizabeth Taylor
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Emilie Loring —Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Angela Milne — One Year’s Time with Simon David Thomas
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Carolyn Wells — Murder in the Bookshop with Rebecca Rego Barry
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Zelda Fitzgerald — Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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HiATUS ENCORE: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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HIATUS ENCORE: Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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HIATUS ENCORE: The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Hiatus Replay: Maud Hart Lovelace — The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Mary McCarthy’s The Group Turns 60
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Lydia Maria Child and the “Thanksgiving” Poem
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Women Who Illuminated Manuscripts
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Christine de Pizan — The Book of the City of Ladies with Kathleen B. Jones
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Cita Press & Sui Sin Far with Juliana Castro Varón and Victoria Namkung
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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An England Travelogue
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Sylvia Townsend Warner — Lolly Willowes with Sarah Watling
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Back to School Prof Edition
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Susan Taubes — Divorcing with Rosemary Kelty
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Hollywood’s Golden Age (for Women)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Ismat Chughtai - The Quilt and Other Stories with Tania Malik
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Anne Askew’s Unyielding Spirit
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Janet Lewis — The Wife of Martin Guerre with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Episode 151: Elspeth Barker — O Caledonia
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Smart — By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept with Rosemary Sullivan and Maya Gallus
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Murasaki Shikibu — The Tale of Genji
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Winnifred Eaton — Cattle with Mary Chapman
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Mercy Otis Warren — Revolutionary Scribe
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Jane White — Quarry with Helen Hughes
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Unlikely Children’s Authors
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Theodora Keogh — Street Music with Maud Newton
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life with Nava Atlas
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Miriam Karpilove — Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love with Jessica Kirzane
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May 30, 2023 |
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Hard-Knock Life Memoirs
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May 23, 2023 |
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The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
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May 16, 2023 |
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Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Turns 40
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May 09, 2023 |
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Ursula Parrott — Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
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May 02, 2023 |
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Jenny Diski and Doris Lessing
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Pauline E. Hopkins — Of One Blood with Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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“Dirty” Books
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Lost Ladies of Music with Leah Broad
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Han Suyin — Winter Love
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Twins In Fiction
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Katrina Trask and the Ghosts of Yaddo
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Elinor Glyn — Three Weeks with Hilary A. Hallett
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford — Molly Bawn with Jessica Callahan
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Marthe Bibesco — The Green Parrot with Lauren Cerand
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Hiatus Replay: Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Victorian Parlour Games
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Our Covid Binges
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Dorothy Richardson — Dawn’s Left Hand with Scott McCracken and Brad Bigelow
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Thanksgiving-ish Books and Films
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Elsie Robinson with Allison Gilbert
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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America’s First Female Mayor
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Rona Jaffe — The Best of Everything with Josh Lambert
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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May Agnes Fleming — The Midnight Queen with Brian Busby
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Anne Hampton Brewster — St. Martin’s Summer with Etta Madden
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Lola Ridge with Terese Svoboda
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Cabinets of Curiosities & The Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Helen Cromwell — Good Time Party Girl with Christina Ward
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Odds & Ends
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Miriam Michelson — The Superwoman with Lori Harrison-Kahan
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Laura Valentine -- The Secret Shakespeare Editor
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Margaret Kennedy — Troy Chimneys
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Sylvia Beach and Ulysses
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Mabel Walker Willebrandt — First Lady of Law
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Lost Ladies of Art with Sara Woster
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Debora Vogel — Acacias Bloom with Juliette Bretan
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Merchant Ivory Fan Club
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Special Bonus Episode: Penelope Mortimer — Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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A Very Brief History of the Proust Questionnaire
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Literal Beach Reads
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Tess Slesinger — The Unpossessed with Paula Rabinowitz and Peter Davis
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May 31, 2022 |
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Maud Wagner — Lost Lady of Tattoo Art
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May 24, 2022 |
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Kay Dick — They with Lucy Scholes
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May 17, 2022 |
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Books in the Vein of Downton Abbey
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May 10, 2022 |
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Mary Taylor — Miss Miles with Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
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May 03, 2022 |
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Quilt-Making As a Feminist, Political Act
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Dorothy Evelyn Smith — O, the Brave Music with Simon Thomas
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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The Polarizing Ambiguities of Motherhood in Books
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Frances Harper — Iola Leroy with Dr. Koritha Mitchell
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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The Gillian Beer Fan Club
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Daisy Fellowes — Sundays with Leigh Plessner
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Lost Ladies of Aviation
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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A Short History of Carousels
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Dorothy B. Hughes — The Expendable Man
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Go Ask Alice James
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Gene Stratton-Porter — A Girl of the Limberlost with Sadie Stein
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Fowl is Fair
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Margery Latimer — We Are Incredible with Joy Castro
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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The Happy New Year Episode -- Bennington Podcast, Books We Read, and More!
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Virginia Cowles — Looking for Trouble with Judith Mackrell
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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“The Wicked Editor’s Christmas Dream” by Alice Mary Vince
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Much Better than CATS — Esther Averill’s Jenny and the Cat Club
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving”
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Simone de Beauvoir — The Inseparables with Lauren Elkin
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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The Preserved Girl-Corpse of Ancient Rome
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Monster, She Wrote with Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Swiping Right (and Left) in the Regency Era
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Ouida — Moths
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Dare Wright and The Lonely Doll Series
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Emma Wolf — Other Things Being Equal with Sarah Seltzer
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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It’s Our One-Year Anniversary Episode!
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Rosamond Lehmann — Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Literary Sisters, Twisted & Otherwise
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Aphra Behn — The History of a Nun with Dr. Sarah Raff
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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For Whom The Bell Rings -- Backpacks and Boarding Schools
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Let Genius Burn — Louisa May Alcott
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Disaster to the Wench with Nina Berry & Brenda Pontiff
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Lorraine Hansberry — A Raisin in the Sun with Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Mary Astell — The First Feminist
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Edith Lewis & Willa Cather with Melissa Homestead
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Judith Love Cohen — a.ka. Jack Black’s Mom
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Nancy Mitford — The Pursuit of Love/Love In a Cold Climate with Laura Thompson
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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The American Guide Series
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Celia Thaxter — A Picturesque Poet Turns to Crime Writing
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May 25, 2021 |
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Maud Hart Lovelace - The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein
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May 18, 2021 |
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Anna Komnene — Europe's First Female Historian
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May 11, 2021 |
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Peg Bracken — The I Hate to Cook Book with Helene Siegel
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May 04, 2021 |
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All For the Love of Libraries
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Martha Gellhorn
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Jocelyn Playfair — A House in the Country
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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A Short History of Riding Side Saddle
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Charmian Kittredge London with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dear Film Industry, Please Consider Adapting These Books by Women
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford—Molly Bawn with Jessica Callahan
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Gilded Age
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Marthe Bibesco — The Green Parrot with Lauren Cerand
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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A Real Life Lady Whistledown
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Marjorie Hillis — Live Alone and Like It with Joanna Scutts
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Rosa Bonheur — Lost Lady of Art
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Louise Fitzhugh — Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody and Laura Mazer
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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On Books We Love... and Books We Hate
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Stella Gibbons — Nightingale Wood
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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From Jane Austen to Zadie Smith — Advice from Women Writers for a More Productive 2021
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Kate Douglas Wiggin — The Birds’ Christmas Carol
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Nathalia Crane — The Janitor’s Boy and Other Poems
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Somewhere In Time On Anne’s Mackinac Island
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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A Falling Out Among Friends — Willa Cather and Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Home-Maker
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Gossip & Heartbreak in the Letters of Emily Eden
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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If Books Could Talk
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Simone Schwarz-Bart - The Bridge of Beyond
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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What's In a Name?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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E.M. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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We Went, We Saw, We Concord
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Monica Dickens - Mariana
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Welcome to Lost Ladies of Lit! A 50 Second Trailer
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Sep 01, 2020 |