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Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the nineteenth-century writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (queer science-fiction writer extraordinaire) and beyond. Hosted by Dr. Courtney Floyd, a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and print culture, and Dr. Eleanor Dumbill, a specialist in Victorian literature and publishing.
A weekly micro-podcast bringing you history’s most notorious bad, backhanded, & brutal reviews of literary classics. By Eleanor Dumbill & Courtney Floyd. New Episodes every Tuesday.
Show Notes Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the early to mid-Victorian period. Transcript here. Resources for this episode included: Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia Timeline of Victorian Legislation on Victorian Web Stats from At the Circulating Library Alexandre D…
Show Notes Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Eliza Acton. Transcript here. Read Eliza Acton's Work UPenn's Online Books Page featuring all digitized editions of her work Poems (1826) Modern Cookery (1845) Resources for this episode included: Asa Briggs. Victorian Things Sheila Hardy. The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of E…
Show Notes In the season five premiere, Courtney and Eleanor discuss some of the major historical events, writers, and genres that shaped the beginning of the Victorian period. Transcript here. Resources for this episode included: Sally Mitchell’s Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia Richard Altick’s Victorian People and Ideas Timeline of Victorian L…
Show Notes A long overdue trailer as we set out on season five. Music: String Quartet no. 2 in B minor - II. Minuetto moderato, performed by Steve's Bedroom Band
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S4:E12 – A Cup o' Kindness for Auld Lang Syne
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Show Notes The story featured in this episode is Mrs Ranford's New Year's Dinner. Read along.If you want to read more about William and Mary Howitt, their Quakerism, and work on behalf of the poor, there's a good overview from the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire.
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S4:E11 – All I Want for Christmas is Improved Working Conditions for All
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Show Notes In the tradition of our annual holiday episodes, I’ve gone a little wild with the title of today’s episode. Today, I’ll read you a Christmas Ballad titled “It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was first published in the 1870s and which floats around with several variant titles.Before that, though, I’ll share a mini biography of i…
Show Notes Tres de MarzoYa Cepeda, el hombre ilustre que nos legara en herencia la Libertad y la Ciencia fuentes de ventura y paz consagra con noble anhelo para eternizar su gloria a su querida memoria cantos de felicidad. Escuchad… Su augusto nombre por doquier repite el eco… Todo el pueblo yucateco honra hoy al libertador y en dulce y sentida tro…
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S4:E9 – The Land Whale Murders Chapter 1: Eel That Heaven Allows
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We still need to get you last month's episode! It's coming! But in the meantime, we have a WHALE of a tale to share: episode one of The Land Whale Murders! _The Land Whale Murder_s is a Gilded Age comedic alternate history podcast about murders, birders, and a missing whale. The show is written by Jonathan A. Goldberg (writer of The Fall of the Hou…
Show Notes CW: Racially motivated violence and death, alcohol-related violence, settler violence, residential schools, suicide “A Strong Race Opinion: On the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction”
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S1E11 - Mary Shelley - Unauthorised Hobgoblin
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Mary Shelley. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Find out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co…
Show Notes Eleanor and Courtney have been swamped, so they offer you this supercut of their spinoff podcast, Lit Slashing, in lieu of an episode this month. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe to here: https://pnc.st/s/lit-slashing. Check out litslashing.carrd.co for transcripts, links to social media, and more!…
Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Henry David Thoreau. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers.Tweet number on about ThoreauAnd a tweet thread that followed Find out more at https:…
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S1E9 - Charles Dickens: Strange and Improbable
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Find out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co
Episode Notes This week, we're slashing The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/lit-slashing Find ou…
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S1E7 - Frances Milton Trollope: Petty and Peevish
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Frances Milton Trollope The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/…
Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Thomas Hardy. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/lit-sl…
Show Notes In this episode, we interview Professor Robin Inboden, who edited the recent Broadview edition of _Agnes Grey_. Also check out Robin's book recommendation, Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life.
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S1E5 - Fergus Hume: Sinks a Syndicate with His Style
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Fergus Hume. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. And if you have any of the elementary emotions left in your nineteenth- ... erm ... twenty-f…
Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Wilkie Collins. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/lit-…
Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Emily and Anne Brontë. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/j…
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S1E2 - William Wordsworth: Longer, Weaker, and Tamer
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing William Wordsworth. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/…
in this episode, we wrap up our coverage of the life of Mary Church Terrell! (Courtney here, apologizing for the random thumps. We were in hour two of recording and I apparently had the fidgets. :/) Resources Used and Mentioned Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World Code Switch episode about redlining P. Djèlí Clark's _Ring Shout_ Th…
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S1E1 - Edward Bulwer-Lytton: An Illegitimate Dramatizer
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Episode Notes This week, we're slashing Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The transcript for this episode can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/ja…
Show Notes Hey Listeners, check out our new project: Lit Slashing, a weekly micro podcast bringing you history’s most notorious bad, backhanded, and brutal reviews of literary classics, coming May 25th, 2021. The transcript for this trailer can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co. You c…
Episode Notes This is Lit Slashing, a weekly micro podcast bringing you history’s most notorious bad, backhanded, and brutal reviews of literary classics, coming May 25th, 2021. The transcript for this trailer can be found here. Follow us on Twitter @LitSlashingPod and check out our website litslashing.carrd.co Check out Courtney and Eleanor's othe…
Show Notes This episode carries a general content warning for discussion of racism. Timestamps for other potentially triggering content:08:15 - 08:45 (suicide)09:40 - 10:00 (rape)13:40 - 15:15, 15:50 - 16:15 (racist police and gun violence) Sources US National Archives page for Mary Church Terrell Mary Church Terrell. 'What It Means to be Colored i…
Show Notes In this episode, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of poet, novelist, and dog-lover, Isa Blagden! (With Courtney's apologies for the episode's lateness. All she can say is: pandemic brain.)
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Bonus Episode - A Conversation about Aimée Duc with Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam
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Show Notes We talk to Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha Kommattam, the editors of a new Broadview Press edition of Aimée Duc's Are They Women?
Show Notes Hi Listeners, this is just a brief announcement to let you know that our next episode will be delayed. Like many of you, we are struggling with this ongoing global pandemic. (laughs) Uhhhh. yeah. yeah. But, we've got some cool things in the works. They're coming soon. Fret not. In the meantime, check the show notes for a list of highly r…
Show Notes In this episode, we talk to Scheherezade Khan, a masters student at the University of Ottawa, about Isa Blagden and how we can decolonise our approach to Victorian literature. The paper we discussed is Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong. 'Introduction: Undisciplining Victorian Studies' in Victorian Studies Vol…
Show Notes The music used in this episode's break is Charles Wood's 'Ding Dong Merrily on High', performed by Steve's Bedroom Band. Sources Fanny Jackson-Coppin. Reminiscences of School Life; and Hints on Teaching. Digitised by the University of North Carolina. Cassandra Waggoner. ‘Fannie Jackson Coppin (1837-1913). Blackpast Robin Brooks. Looking …
In Episode 24, Courtney and Eleanor chat about the life and work of renowned Chinese ci and shi poet, Gu Taiqing. Transcript coming soon! Sources for this episode: The Oxford Encyclopedia Women in World History Wang, Yanning. Reverie and Reality : Poetry on Travel by Late Imperial Chinese Women. Geng, Changqin. Mirror, dream and shadow : Gu Taiqing…
Sources for this episode: Lois Brown. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution Hanna Wallinger. Pauline E. Hopkins: A Literary Biography Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance [The Pauline Hopkins Society] (http://www.paulinehopkinssociety.org) [Black Past article on Hopkins] (https://www.bla…
Description Courtney and Eleanor chat about what they've been up to during hiatus / quarantine and what they're hoping to accomplish in Season Four! Things we mentioned:Eleanor's articleCall for participants The books mentioned in this episode are: Akala's Natives Janna Thompson's Should Current Generations Make Reparations for Slavery?…
Link to our read-along details (the full text of this announcement is included there): http://victorianscribblers.com/quarantine-read-along/ Link to a podcast that is heroically providing Covid-19 updates (thanks Erins!): http://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/ Find us on Twitter: @VS_PodcastBy admin
Transcript coming soon. The texts read in this episode are True Patriotism and The Attraction of Planets. You can read True Patriotism, along with other information related to Delany on the website of Moonstone Arts Center. The Attraction of Planets can be found on Hathitrust. Note. Some listeners may want to skip The Attraction of Planets. I (Elea…
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Bonus Episode – A Conversation with Isabel Greenberg
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In this episode, we chat with illustrator and writer, Isabel Greenberg, about her new book, Glass Town, and the Brontës. You can find Isabel on Twitter: @isabelgreenberg, on Instagram, and on her website: https://www.isabelgreenberg.co.uk/ U.S. listeners can find Glass Town here on March 3rd: https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/glass-town_978141973…
The third and final part of our biographical coverage of Martin R. Delany. Transcripts and links coming soon.By admin
Resources Gerry Butler. ‘MARTIN ROBISON DELANY (1812-1885)’ Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/delany-major-martin-robison-1812-1885/ Encyclopedia Virginia entry on Delany https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Delany_Martin_R_1812-1885 African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2000) edited by E…
Resources Why There’s a West Virginia: https://daily.jstor.org/why-theres-a-west-virginia/ Frank A. Rollin. Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany: Sub-assistant commisioner bureau relief of Refugees, Freedmen, and of Abandoned Lands, and Late Major 104th US Coloured Troops. Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868. Portrait of Delany in military regali…
An informal chat with Jo Turner, a PhD student at Loughborough University studying Marie Corelli. Jo can be found on twitter at @coppertapestry The Sorrows of Satan (Film)
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S3:E11 – Episode 19 – Marie Corelli’s Writing
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Show notes coming soon! Find the PDF of “The Happy Life” below. (I’m aware this PDF is not screen reader accessible and am working on remedying that!!) “The Happy Life”Download Episode 19 Transcript: Download ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Li…
Link to “The Star”: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_35 TITLE OF EPISODE IN REFERENCE TO: “Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” performed by: Rhonda Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGLS5BnLZc The Judds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfhOgpDRxI Judy Garland singing “The Star of the East” (written by New York lyrici…
RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie C…
RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie C…
Things we mentioned in this episode: The Victorian Data conference: https://data-caucus.herokuapp.com/ This Victorian authors / penguin height comparison: The Queen of Romania, a secret Victorian Scribbler? See details here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Wied and here https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/queen-m…
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The texts read in this episode can be found at: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (University of Adelaide) History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Gutenberg) The Mortal ImmortalBy Eleanor Dumbill
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