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Victorian ScribblersCharles Elmé FrancatelliShow Notes Eleanor and Courtney discuss the life of cookery revolutionary, Charles Elmé Francatelli. Transcript here. Sources Charles Elmé Francatelli. A Plain Cookery Book For The Working Classes. London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1867 https://archive.org/details/plaincookerybook0000fran —.The Cook's Guide And Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant : A Practical Treatise On English And Foreign Cookery In All Its Branches, Containing Plain Instructions For Pickling And Preserving Vegetables, Fruits, Game, &C, The Curing Of Hams And Bacon, The Art Of Confectionery And Ice-Making, And The Arrangement Of Desserts, With Valuable Directions For The Preparation Of Pr...2022-09-3033 min

Victorian ScribblersMay 2022 Episode DelaysShow Notes TL;DL we're hoping to have an episode for you in mid-June! Support Victorian Scribblers by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/victorian-scribblers 2022-05-2703 min

Victorian ScribblersTimeline: 1851-1860Show 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 Dumas’s publications The Oxford (or High Church) Movement Read The Lifted Veil at the George Eliot Archive Read open access scholarship about The Lifted Veil on George Eliot Scholars Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi page, or recu...2022-03-2538 min

Victorian ScribblersEliza ActonShow 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 Eliza Acton (would not recommend tbh) Elizabeth Ray’s “Acton, Eliza (1799-1859)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. and this article in The Guardian Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi page, or recurring donations to our...2022-02-2548 min

Victorian ScribblersTimeline: 1836-1850Show 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 Legislation on Victorian Web Pickwick Papers and the Development of Serial Fiction on Victorian Web Cliffhangers on Victorian Web Stats from At the Circulating Library Eleanor’s entry on Factory Acts Support the show via one-time contributions on our ko-fi...2022-01-2821 min

Victorian ScribblersVictorian Scribblers TrailerShow 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 2022-01-2100 min

Victorian ScribblersA Cup o' Kindness for Auld Lang SyneShow 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.2021-12-3151 min

Victorian ScribblersAll I Want for Christmas is Improved Working Conditions for AllShow 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 its author, English journalist, poet, dramatist, and novelist George R. Sims. But first! let’s take a quick trip around the world in George R. Sims’s lifetime: Around the World Feb 11 1847 - Thomas Edison i...2021-12-2415 min

Victorian ScribblersRita Cetina GutiérrezShow Notes Tres de Marzo Ya 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 trova las niñas del Instituto también le pagan tributo de gratitud y de amor Sources https://www.decimononicas.com/cetina-rita https://distintaslatitudes.net/archivo/sobre-rita-cetina-gutierrez-madre-simbolica-del-feminismo-en-yucatan https://www.lajornadamaya.mx/opinion/83810/rita-cetina-gutierrez-pedagoga-feminista-que-dejo-huella-en-yucatan https://inehrm.gob.mx...2021-11-2634 min

Victorian ScribblersThe Land Whale Murders Chapter 1: Eel That Heaven AllowsWe 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 House of Sunshine, Radio Free Mushroom America, Margaret’s Garden) and directed by James Oliva (What’s the Frequency), with original music by Matt roi Berger (Fall of the House of S...2021-11-0527 min

Victorian ScribblersE. Pauline JohnsonShow 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”2021-10-0839 min

Lit SlashingMary Shelley - Unauthorised HobgoblinEpisode 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 2021-08-0311 min

Victorian ScribblersLit Slashing SupercutShow 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!2021-07-301h 16

Lit SlashingThoreau - Selfish PhilosophyEpisode 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 Thoreau And a tweet thread that followed Find out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co 2021-07-2710 min

Lit SlashingThoreau - Selfish PhilosophyEpisode 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. Tweet number on about Thoreau And a tweet thread that followed Find out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co 2021-07-2710 min

Lit SlashingCharles Dickens: Strange and ImprobableEpisode 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 2021-07-2009 min

Lit SlashingAnthony Trollope: A Source of RegretEpisode 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 out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co 2021-07-1309 min

Lit SlashingFrances Milton Trollope: Petty and PeevishEpisode 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/jar/lit-slashing Find out more at https://lit-slashing.pinecast.co 2021-07-0608 min

Lit SlashingThomas Hardy: As Cheerless as a TombEpisode 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-slashing 2021-06-2900 min

Victorian ScribblersA Conversation about Anne Brontë with Robin InbodenShow 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.2021-06-2500 min

Lit SlashingFergus Hume: Sinks a Syndicate with His StyleEpisode 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-first-century souls, leave us a review or tell a friend! Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/lit-slashing 2021-06-2205 min

Lit SlashingWilkie Collins: Not Socialist EnoughEpisode 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-slashing 2021-06-1500 min

Lit SlashingEmily and Anne Brontë: Too GothicEpisode 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/jar/lit-slashing 2021-06-0800 min

Lit SlashingWilliam Wordsworth: Longer, Weaker, and TamerEpisode 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/lit-slashing 2021-06-0107 min

Victorian ScribblersMary Church Terrell (Part Two) 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_ The World’s Fair, Frederick Douglas, and Paul Dunbar The Poetry Foundation’s page on Paul Laurence Dunbar Get Lit podcast episode on Paul Laurence Dunbar A Pamphlet of Frederick Douglass’s Lecture...2021-05-2800 min

Lit SlashingEdward Bulwer-Lytton: An Illegitimate DramatizerEpisode 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/jar/lit-slashing 2021-05-2514 min

Victorian ScribblersOur New Project: Lit SlashingShow 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 can subscribe to our RSS feed here.2021-05-1402 min

Lit SlashingTrailerEpisode 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 other podcast, Victorian Scribblers. Support Lit Slashing by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/lit-slashing 2021-05-1102 min

Victorian ScribblersMary Church Terrell (Part One)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 in the Capital of the United States'. Mary Church Terrell. A Colored Woman in a White World Library of Congress holdings for Church Terrell Bobby L. Lovett 'Memphis Riots: White Reaction to Blacks in Memphis, May 1865-July 1866' Tennessee Historical Quarterly 38:1 (1979), pp. 9-33 Alison M. Parker. U...2021-04-3045 min

Victorian ScribblersIsa BlagdenShow 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.)2021-04-0437 min

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode - A Conversation about Aimée Duc with Margaret Sönser Breen and Nisha KommattamShow 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?2021-03-1949 min

Victorian ScribblersAnnouncement: Delayed EpisodeShow 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 recommended podcasts that you can listen to this Black History Month. Thanks for listening! (Music: Haydn, String Quartet II in B Minor performed by Steve's Bedroom Band) What to listen...2021-02-2600 min

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode – A Conversation about Isa Blagden with Scheherezade KhanShow 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. 62, No. 3. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.01). You can find Scheherezade on twitter at twitter.com/arete20 2021-01-2900 min

Victorian ScribblersChristmas with Fanny Jackson CoppinShow 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 to Foremothers for Strength: A Brief Biography of the Colored Woman’s League. _Women's Studies. Sep 2018, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p609-616_.__ Geraldine J. Clifford. Those Good Gertrudes : A Social History of Women Teachers in America. (2016) James Levy...2020-12-2500 min

Victorian ScribblersGu TaiqingIn 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's life and writings. Grant, Beata. "The Poetess and the Precept Master: a Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing," in Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music: Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema, edited by Michel Hockx, et...2020-11-2756 min

Victorian ScribblersPauline HopkinsSources 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.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hopkins-pauline-elizabeth-1859-1930) [Library on Congress. The Grand Army of the Republic] (https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/gar/) [Robert C. Hayden. African Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years] (https://archive.org/details/africanamericans00hayd_0) William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. Documenting the American South Additional resources ...2020-10-3045 min

Victorian ScribblersSeason Four IntroDescription 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 article Call for participants The books mentioned in this episode are: Akala's Natives Janna Thompson's Should Current Generations Make Reparations for Slavery? 2020-09-2541 min

Victorian ScribblersHiatus AnnouncementLink 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_Podcast 2020-03-3105 min

Victorian ScribblersMartin R. Delany’s WritingTranscript 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 (Eleanor) think it is interesting and worth paying attention to but theres a lot of scientific detail, which may not appeal to everyone. If you are so inclined, we move on from this around...2020-02-2847 min

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode – A Conversation with Isabel GreenbergIn 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_9781419732683/ U.K. listeners can find GlassTown here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1115589/glass-town/9781787330832.html Some resources about the Brontë juvenilia: British Library “The History of Angria” https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/bront-juvenilia-the-history-of-angriaBrontë Babe bl...2020-02-2846 min

Victorian ScribblersMartin R. Delany (Part Three)The third and final part of our biographical coverage of Martin R. Delany. Transcripts and links coming soon.2020-02-1450 min

Victorian ScribblersMartin R. Delany (Part Two)ResourcesGerry 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_1812-1885African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2000) edited by Emanuel S. Nelson 2020-02-0758 min

Victorian ScribblersMartin R. Delany (Part One)ResourcesWhy 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 regalia: https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.76.101The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.htmlTRANSCRIPT COMING SOON!2020-01-3137 min

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode – Interview with Jo TurnerAn 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) figureimg data-attachment-id="1613" data-permalink="http://victorianscribblers.com/podcast/bonus-episode-interview-with-jo-turner/9d7661ef-cb0e-4d38-ae74-fa4dccb5598c_1_105_c/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/victorianscribblers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/9D7661EF-CB0E-4D38-AE74-FA4DCCB5598C_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=768%2C1024" data-orig-size="768,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{aperture:1.8,credit:,camera:iPhone 11,caption:,created_timestamp:1578410691,copyright:,focal_length:4.25,iso:500,shutter_speed:0.03030303030303,title:,orientation:0}" data-image-title="9D7661EF-CB0E-4D38-AE74-FA4DCCB5598C_1_105_c" data-image-description=""...2020-01-1749 min

Victorian ScribblersEpisode 19 – Marie Corelli’s WritingShow 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 Living? (according to this advertisement).2020-01-1042 min

Victorian ScribblersBeautiful Star of … Apocalypse?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 lyricist George Cooper in 1890): figure /figure Our theme music for this episode was “Deck the Halls,” performed by Michel Rondeau, available under a CC attribution 3.0 license. Break / trans...2019-12-2545 min

Victorian ScribblersMarie Corelli (Part Three)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 Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure of Automatic Writing”: https://archive.org/stream/revelationsofspi00farriala/revelationsofspi00farriala_djvu.txt Joanna Turner’s …2019-12-2050 min

Victorian ScribblersMarie Corelli (Part Two)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 Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure …2019-12-201h 02

Victorian ScribblersMarie Corelli (Part One)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-marie-romania-papers RESOURCES: Branch article about Wilde’s trial: link here Great resource for Corelli …2019-11-2958 min

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode – NAVSA Data Caucus 2019 2019-11-2451 min

Victorian ScribblersMary Shelley’s WritingThe 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 Immortal 2019-10-241h 10

Victorian ScribblersMary Shelley (Part Four)2019-10-111h 06

Victorian ScribblersEpisode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, rape, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is …2019-09-271h 25

Victorian ScribblersMary Shelley (Part Two)Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is struggling …2019-09-131h 21

Victorian ScribblersMary Shelley (Part One)RESOURCES Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon. Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Johanna M. Smith Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing …2019-08-3041 min

Victorian ScribblersSeason Three IntroHi listeners! Welcome to Season Three! You can access a PDF transcript below, and I’ve included links to things we mentioned during the episode below: George Eliot Archive At the Circulating Library Science Fiction List Darko Suvin’s article on Victorian Science Fiction Margaret Cavendish’s The …2019-08-1639 min

Victorian ScribblersThe Trollope Who Stole ChristmasE Hi Listeners! Welcome to Episode 13 – The Trollope Who Stole Christmas! If you’ve ever heard of a novelist by the name of Trollope before listening to this season, chances are it was Anthony. The middle child of Frances Milton and Thomas Anthony Trollope, …2018-12-2547 min

Victorian ScribblersFrances Eleanor Trollope’s WritingIn this episode, we read Frances Eleanor Trollope’s chapter of the collaborative novel, The Fate of Fenella (1892). The edition that Courtney owns is from Valancourt Books, the edition that I (Eleanor) own is actually from Solis Press. I thought I should flag this up before I …2018-11-3043 min

Victorian ScribblersFrances Eleanor TrollopeShow notes coming soon!2018-11-161h 08

Victorian ScribblersBonus Episode – NAVSA 2018In this episode, you’ll hear excerpts from presentations on the NAVSA panel in which I participated as well as MIDIs of two nineteenth-century songs! Thanks to Miranda Butler for bringing us together to organize the panel, Kate Nesbit and Shannon Draucker for their amazing papers …2018-10-2635 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 8 – Wrap-UpMS 8 – Wrap-Up –YouTube adaptations Middlemarch – Neo-Victorian series set at college. Dorothea is a bi STEM student who is documenting the lives of her friends. She eventually falls for a genderbent Ladislaw. Carmilla – Neo-Victorian. Four seasons and a movie! Quite different …2018-09-1455 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 7 – Visualizing the VictoriansMS 7 – Visualizing the Victorians Hi all, welcome to the seventh episode of our Summer 2018 mini series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians. In this episode I’m going to talk about comics and graphic novels which either adapt Victorian stories or present original …2018-08-3117 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 6 – Victorians on TelevisionAdaptations mentioned: Daniel Deronda on IMDB Daniel Deronda on the BBC’s website Middlemarch on IMDB North and South on IMDB North and South on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (series) on IMDB War and Peace (series) on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (film) on IMDB …2018-08-2423 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 5 – What are Neo-Victorian and Steampunk, Anyway?Hi everyone, welcome back to our ongoing summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians, this is Courtney and I’m recording solo today. Over the course of the next thirty or so minutes, I’m going to sketch out the definitions of Neo-Victorian and Steampunk …2018-08-1734 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 4 – Victorian Art Adaptations (Part Two)Dr. Wager and I continue our conversation about Victorian Art / Art Adaptations. Things we mentioned: Poison Wallpaper William Morris Archive William Morris’s News From Nowhere Thomas Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller’s Slow Print Jennifer Green-Lewis’s Framing the Victorians Daniel Novak’s Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century …2018-08-1046 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 4 – Victorian Art Adaptations (Part One)Hi everyone, welcome to episode four of our summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians! Today we’re going to chat about art adaptations, though I have a feeling I’m going rogue by using that term in regard to art at all. Here to …2018-08-0337 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 3 – William Morris and the Kelmscott PressIMPORTANT NOTE: We experienced some technical difficulties in recording this episode and at times Ben’s audio is missing or corrupted. I (Eleanor) have done my best to clean this up but please bear with us on this! Welcome to the third episode of our 2018 …2018-07-2741 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 2 – Victorian Medievalism (Part Two)Around the World in the Medieval Period 525 – Anno Domini calendar invented 529-34 – Code of Justinian issued 590 – Gregory the Great becomes pope 618 – the Tang Dynasty begins in China (in one folklore tradition, this is the dynasty in which Mulan …2018-07-2039 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 2 – Victorian Medievalism (Part One)Introduction: Welcome to the second episode of our 2018 mini-series, “Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians”! Today, we’re going to talk about Victorian Medievalism, focusing on poetry. As mentioned in the first episode of the mini-series, the Victorians adapted all sorts of things, from Greek …2018-07-1336 min

Victorian ScribblersMS Episode 1 – What is Adaptation? Summer 2018 Mini-Series: Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians Mini-Series Episode 1 – What is Adaptation? The sun is shining, the skies are blue, it’s warm and everybody wants to be outside. It’s summertime, and what better opportunity to talk about…adaptations? [Cricket …2018-07-0629 min

Victorian ScribblersTom and Theodosia’s Writing 2018-06-291h 15

Victorian ScribblersTom and Theodosia (Garrow) Trollope REVISEDEpisode 9 – Thomas Adolphus Trollope and Theodosia Garrow Trollope In episodes 7 and 8 we covered Frances Milton Trollope’s life and work. Today we’re turning to her son and first daughter-in-law. Thomas Adolphus Trollope begins his memoir (which he explicitly states is not intended …2018-05-2547 min

Victorian ScribblersFrances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part Two) In Part Two of episode 8, we finish reading Frances Milton Trollope’s “The Butt,” which you can read in full for free at this link. 2018-05-041h 08

Victorian ScribblersFrances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part One) REVISEDIn this episode, we reconstruct Fanny’s writing process (to the best of our ability) and read some of her short fiction. This episode was revised; the original version I (Courtney) released was an earlier file. Corrections: Thomas Anthony did publish something: A Treatise on the Mortgage …2018-04-271h 25

Victorian ScribblersRectors, Vicars, and CuratesEpisode 7.5 – Rectors, Vicars, and Curates (or, what’s up with all this religious terminology?) Some important dates: 1454 or 5 – Johannes Gutenberg printed the Gutenberg Bibles putting religion and literacy into the hands of the public! (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenbergbible/) 1517 – Martin Luther’s 95 Theses …2018-03-3023 min

Victorian ScribblersFrances Milton Trollope (Part Three)… [Continued from Part Two] During this time, Fanny falls ill and, though she eventually recovers, her eyesight is significantly weakened. But Fanny has begun writing what is to be the first of many books: Domestic Manners. Her experiences also influence her opinions about America …2018-03-1533 min

Victorian ScribblersFrances Milton Trollope (Part Two)In Part One, we left our intrepid adventurer aboard a ship and on the way to Frances Wright’s Nashoba Commune in Tennessee to try to improve her life. Let’s find out more about her voyage! Before we do, though, I need to make a …2018-03-091h 04

Victorian ScribblersFrances Milton Trollope (Part One)Welcome to the first full episode of season two: Episode 7 – Frances Milton Trollope Best known now as the mother of successful Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, Frances, or Fanny as she was more usually called, was a literary force in her own right. She’s …2018-02-2343 min

Victorian ScribblersSeason Two Intro: Fannies and TrollopesHappy New Year, listeners! Last March, I took the plunge and launched Victorian Scribblers. My first year podcasting had its ups and downs, of course. Ask almost any podcaster and they’ll tell you there’s a steep learning curve if you want to get involved …2018-01-2628 min

Victorian ScribblersThe Scribblers Who Created Christmas (Part Two)So, Gaskell’s story of the prodigal son, who returns to rob the parents who believe he is dead is much closer to Dickens’s theme than he may have realised and, as Fran Baker points out “much more disturbing than any supernatural haunting.” As I said …2017-12-291h 03

Victorian ScribblersThe Scribblers Who Created Christmas (Part One)Episode 5 – The Scribblers who Created Christmas Charles Dickens is perhaps the most famous writer of the Victorian era, he’s also a key player in the Victorian creation of Christmas and especially Christmas stories. A Christmas Carol is obviously a mainstay of Christmas plays …2017-12-251h 18

Victorian ScribblersBONUS EPISODE: Live from NAVSA 2017Hi listeners, This episode was recorded live at the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in Banff, Alberta. I was joined by Alison Hedley (@HedleyAlison), Tom Stuart (@tmatthewstuart), and Miranda Butler (@mirandactl), and we chatted about favorite Victorian writers, research projects, and more. Miranda …2017-11-2420 min

Victorian ScribblersBraddon's LegacyUPDATE: Anna would like to clarify that the Braddon centenary conference, in which the Braddon Association participated, was organized by Anne-Marie Beller of Loughborough University in the UK. Hi listeners! In today’s episode, I (Courtney) chat with a friend of mine (Anna Brecke) about Braddon’s …2017-11-2427 min

Victorian ScribblersBraddon's Writing (Part Two)Episode 4 (Part Two): “Herself” chs 3-5 & discussion Shout-out to new Patron, Lyn Baines! Thank you for helping make this podcast possible! Special halloween sound effects recorded by Daniel Simion, CC license here. I did some digging about the game bezique: instructions here. Do you play? …2017-10-3159 min

Victorian ScribblersBraddon's Writing (Part One)Episode 4 Part One: Process and ‘Herself’ Ch. 1-2 6 August 1887, article titled “Miss Braddon at Home” in the Cardiff Times and South Wales Weekly News. Based on her archives, we also know that she kept working journals where she recorded observations, descriptions, …2017-10-2750 min

Victorian ScribblersMary Elizabeth Braddon (Part Two)1852: we know she started acting. Now, I mentioned this briefly in the Wilkie Collins bio episode, but to the Victorian mind, actors were all loose and not respectable. A young lady who took up acting was, by society’s estimate, a RUINED young lady.But Braddon’s …2017-10-181h 11

Victorian ScribblersMary Elizabeth Braddon (Part One)DISCLAIMER: the audio quality on this episode is not great. I hit a sharp learning curve and didn’t anticipate the editing problems I’d run into. In Ep 3 (Part Two), the quality is a bit better–in Episode 4 and beyond the quality is back to …2017-10-181h 11

Victorian ScribblersNewspaper NovelsScholars used to think that the 3 volume novel (or triple decker) was the most prominent form of novel publication in the Victorian era. It was certainly the most bourgeoisie, middle-class status symbol form of the book in the nineteenth century. But for most of …2017-10-1818 min

Victorian ScribblersWilkie's WritingEPISODE 2 – WILKIE’s WRITING “Our words are giant when they do us an injury, and dwarves when they do us a service.” 2 parts: PROCESS & PROSE PROCESS: –19 out of 23 novels serialized in periodicals –newspapers and/or “magazines” which ranged from the types …2017-10-181h 07

Victorian ScribblersWilkie Collins“Our words are giant when they do us an injury, and dwarves when they do us a service.” I. WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS II. Historical Context: a. 1824 — George IV is 4 yrs in to his 10 yr reign, having succeeded his mentally unstable father, …2017-10-1859 min

Victorian ScribblersNot Jane AustenIn which I take on Jane Austen…and provisionally outline what actually counts as “Victorian.” Fortify yourselves, because I put on my ranting pants. DISCLAIMER: in this episode, I state that Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1902. In fact, she died in 1901. So, the correct date …2017-10-1809 min

Victorian ScribblersIntroShow Notes: As promised, a quick overview of non-academic, but informative and entertaining podcast episodes about Victorians / Writers. The History Chicks (a podcast I love and highly recommend): Queen Victoria (part one here, part two here) Lewis Carroll Beatrix Potter I’m sure this isn’t an all-inclusive …2017-10-1704 min