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Lost Ladies of Lit

Amy Helmes & Kim Askew

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. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visitinghttps://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.

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🔒 200. A Bicentennial Backward Glance

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2024/07/09

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Reflecting back on four years of literary “lost ladies,” Amy celebrates our 200th episode with a quirky list of yearbook superlatives to help jog your memory about some of our favorite titles, including the books “Most Likely to Make You Eat Your Vegetables,” “Most Likely to Up Your Selfie Game,” and “Most Likely to Make You Want to Delete All Your Dating Apps.” We mark this milestone with gratitude to our listeners, guests and patrons for helping...

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199. Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career)

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2024/07/02

Send us a Text Message.An Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in 1901 and written when author Miles Franklin was only eighteen years old, My Brilliant Career became an instant classic of Australian literature and still delights readers with its feisty heroine, Sybylla Melvin, and its realistic depiction of Australian life and lingo at the turn of the 20th century. In our discussion of the novel and its fil...

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🔒 Lost Ladies Meet AI

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2024/06/25

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Things get weird on the show this week as Amy and Kim commune with some ladies of literature from beyond the veil… with a little bit of help from ChatGPT. Check out our “interview” with Restoration-era author and playwright Aphra Behn, then find out what happens when we play around with prompts for Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. The experience leaves our hosts more grateful than ever for real-life guests!For episodes and show no...

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Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Lost Lady of Translation —...

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2024/06/18

Send us a Text Message.You may think you’ve never read anything by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, but if you’ve read any Thomas Mann, there’s a good chance you’ve seen her handiwork. Lowe-Porter was a writer and translator whose greatest (but largely unsung) success came in the form of translating 22 monumental works by the German literary giant. Her English translations of Mann’s work proved pivotal in his being awarded the Nobel Prize in 1929. A new novel tells her hidden story, and its author, J...

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🔒 7 Middagh Street — The House of Literary Misfits

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2024/06/11

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Writers Carson McCullers and W.H. Auden, literary editor George Davis, composer Benjamin Britten and burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee... once upon a time they all lived together in a house in Brooklyn Heights, an early 1940s version of the sitcom "Friends," only this one populated by an ever-changing mix of creative geniuses. Amy explains more about this merry (and often inebriated) band of misfits and their communal living arrangement in this week's...

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Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie...

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2024/06/04

Send us a Text Message.Guest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May. Known for her groundbreaking work in comedy, screenwriting, directing, and acting, May rose to fame as part of the iconic comedy duo Nichols and May. Despite her significant contributions to films like "Tootsie" and "The Birdcage," she often chose to remain uncredited, creating an air of mystery around her achievements. Carrie Courogen provides ...

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🔒 A Urinal, a "Punk" Baroness and a Dinner Party

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2024/06/02

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Marcel Duchamp created one of the most influential works of art in the 20th century. Or did he? There are some who theorize that a woman — “proto-punk” poet and Dada-ist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven — is the true genius behind the groundbreaking “Fountain” urinal sculpture that rocked the art world in 1917. Learn more about this attention-seeking baroness and the potential evidence linking her to this iconic artwork in this week’s episode. And sta...

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Kim and Amy Catch Their Book Breath

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2024/05/21

Send us a Text Message.In this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Radclyffe Hall. Amy introduces a quirky new business idea inspired by silent disco and Shakespeare, and we invite listeners to text feedback using a new ‘text us’ feature. Plus, we tease upcoming episodes, including one on screenwriter Elaine May, and announce exclusive bonus content for Patreon members. Tune in fo...

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🔒 Lost Ladies and Their Pet Monkeys

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2024/05/14

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Inspired by Barbara Comyns, who lived with an unusual assortment of pets over the years, this bonus episode explores female authors who owned pet monkeys. Amy discusses Virginia Woolf and her Nazi-disarming marmoset Mitz, Nellie Bly’s fez-wearing travel companion, McGinty, and other primates who captured the hearts of some lesser-known women writers, including Miles Franklin, Mickey Hahn, Emily Carr and Clarice Lispector. For episodes and sho...

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Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and...

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2024/05/07

Send us a Text Message.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...

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🔒 Ina Eloise Young, Lost Lady of Sports Reporting

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2024/04/30

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Inspired by watching Caitlin Clark play in this year’s NCAA tournament, Amy is feeling uncharacteristically “sporty” in this week’s bonus episode. She’ll dive into the history of Ina Eloise Young, America’s first female sports editor at a daily newspaper whose coverage of the 1908 World Series so impressed other newspapermen covering the games that she was immediately named an honorary member of the newly-formed Baseball Writers Association. Ina’s...

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35:54

Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal

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2024/04/23

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🔒 The "Ex-pat" Life with Anne Boyd Rioux

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2024/04/16

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Have you ever wanted to hit the “pause” button on your life and simply start over? In 2022, Anne Boyd Rioux did just that, making the bold and audacious decision to leave her job as a tenured English professor, sell all her earthly possessions and embark on a European adventure. In this episode, Anne talks to Amy about her decision to reset her life and find a new way of being in the world. Find out what Anne has learned about herself in the cours...

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Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux

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2024/04/09

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🔒 The Viennese Waltz — Dance Revolution!

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2024/04/02

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.In this episode Amy explores the history of the 19th-century dance craze that made political leaders nervous, religious leaders aghast, dance instructors insecure and the masses primed for revolt! From Johann Strauss Jr.'s "pop star" status to popular representations in film, we're covering everything you ever wanted to know about the "Forbidden Dance" — the waltz — and its political and cultural significance!For episodes and show notes, visit: L...

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Speranza, a.k.a Oscar Wilde’s Mom

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2024/03/26

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Whose Line is it Anyway? Elizabeth Taylor vs....

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2024/03/25

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🔒 Elizabeth Taylor Vs. Elizabeth Taylor (Full-length...

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2024/03/19

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.FULL LENGTH EDITION!!! In our first-ever "Game Show Edition" of the podcast, McNally Editions editor Lucy Scholes joins us to talk about the TWO Elizabeth Taylors! Lucy collaborated with Pushkin Press Classics on the short story collection A Different Sound, in which midcentury British novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Taylor features. In addition to discussing Taylor's writing, we'll also confab on Roger Lewis's Erotic Vagrancy, the dishy...

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Emilie Loring —Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender

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2024/03/12

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🔒 Lost Ladies at the Academy Awards

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2024/03/05

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Fasten on those Harry Winston jewels! With Oscar night approaching, Patreon members get “red carpet” access as Amy takes a look back at some of the films honored by the Academy over the decades which were written (or co-written) by women. Women’s representation in screenwriting categories at the Oscars has been a bit underwhelming. (Case in point: from 1940 through 1985 only three women took home a statue in the Best Original Screenplay category!)...

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