Victorian Scribblers: Recent Episodes
Courtney Floyd and Eleanor Dumbill
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.
Show 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 Proper Diet For Invalids, Also For A Variety Of Wine-Cups And Epicurean Salads, American Drinks, And Summer Beverages. London: Bentley, 1865 https://archive.org/details/b21526850 —. The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide To The Culinary Art In All Its Branches: Comprising, In Addition To English Cookery, The Most Approved And Recherché Systems Of French, Italian, And German Cookery; Adapted As Well For The Largest Establishments As For The Use Of Private Families. London: Bentley, 1877 (25th edition). https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-95770-33 —. Popular cookery: being a reprint of a pamphlet entitled, "Cookery for the Lancashire operatives, " gratuitously circulated during the cotton famine, in 1863. By an Englishman. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co, 1871. http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100049731949.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-1%2C-146%2C1345%2C2432 —. The Royal Confectioner, English And Foreign: A Practical Treatise On The Art Of Confectionary In All Its Branches, Comprising Ornamental Confectionary Artistically Developed ... Also, The Art Of Ice-Making, And The Arrangement And General Economy Of Fashionable Desserts. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874 https://archive.org/details/b20409473 Lauren Gilbert. Cook at Buckingham Palace: Charles Elme' Francatelli. https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2019/01/cook-at-buckingham-palace-charles-elme.html Catherine Gore (as Albany Poyntz). ‘The French Cook’. Bentley’s Miscellany Jan 1 1842, pp. 606-13 Patricia Bixler Reber. Queen Victoria's chef Charles Elme Francatelli. http://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/queen-victorias-chef-charles-elme.html Colin Smythe. Charles Elmé Francatelli, Crockford’s, and the Royal Connection.https://colinsmythe.co.uk/charles-elme-francatelli-crockfords-and-the-royal-connection/ Mary Ellen Snodgrass. Encyclopaedia of Kitchen History. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2004 Henry Turner Waddy. The Devonshire Club and Crockford’s London: E. Nash, 1919
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Show Notes TL;DL we're hoping to have an episode for you in mid-June!
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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 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
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You should be listening to: Courtney's fiction podcast! The Way We Haunt Now is a lighthearted horror audio drama about friendship, found family, and fighting the narratives that try to define us – even in the afterlife. One of the central characters is Victorian ghost, Frances "Frankie" Matilda Summerson.
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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 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
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You should be listening to: Horse Girls, a podcast in which hosts Alex, Jenna, and Tim take a canter down memory lane to revisit all of those horse girl books they read growing up. Find the pod on Twitter @HorseGirlsCast
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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 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
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You should be listening to: Check out long-time listener Art Kilmer's Bookshelf Odyssey podcast! The podcast can be found at www.bookshelfodyssey.com and you can also find it on YouTube!
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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
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.
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 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 is Born
- 1848 marked the beginning of several revolutions against European monarchies, notably in Sicily, France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire
- April 10 1848 - Chartists gather across the Thames from the Houses of Parliament for a demonstration in which they planned to march en masse to deliver a petition, but police had them trapped and the event ended with a fizzle rather than a bang
- Jul 4 1855 - Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" Is Published
- 1868 - Elizabeth Blackwell establishes a Women's Medical College
- Nov 17 1877 - Charles Darwin received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University During Darwin's honorary degree ceremony, a prankster dangled this stuffed monkey dressed in academic robes from the gallery of the Senate House, which 'excited some mirth'.
- April 1888- February 1891 the Whitechapel Murders were committed by an unidentified person who came to be known as Jack the Ripper
- Sep 23 1889 - Nintendo Founded to produce handmade hanafuda cards
- 1899 - Kate Chopin Publishes "The Awakening"
- Sep 8 1903 - The American Federation Of Labor Grants A Charter To Granite Quarry Workers
- Feb 2 1914 the first film featuring Charlie Chaplin, "Making a Living," is released
- Jan 11 1922 - Researcher John Macleod and chemist James Collip administered the first dose of their newly developed Insulin Injection to 14yo diabetic, Leonard Thompson
George R. Sims Bio George R. Sims was born 2 September 1847 to father, George Sims, and mother, Louisa Amelia Ann Stevenson Sims. He would be the first of the couple’s six children. Between them, they raised their children with the London theater and progressive politics. Louisa was a president of the Women's Provident League and her father, Chartist leader John Dinmore Stevenson, lived with the family.
Sims began writing for in school, where he quickly began to publish poetry and journalism in The College Gazette and later The Welcome Guest, Fun, Weekly Dispatch, and The Referee. For The Referee, he wrote a popular column of miscellany called 'Mustard and Cress' under the pseudonym 'Dagonet' from 1877 until he died. And it is under that pseudonym that he reported, from 1888-1891 on the Whitechapel Murders.
His best-known ballad is “It Is Christmas Day in the Workhouse,” which was often parodied during his lifetime but which struck me as having strong ‘eat the rich’ vibes in a Christmas season marked by the exploitation of wage workers here in the US.
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Thank you for listening! I hope you all have a happy Christmas Eve. Keep an eye on our feed for a second holiday episode from Eleanor. Take care!
Resources https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/86dc0be7-20fa-36d2-8606-be3459167766
Music This episode featured "Deck the Halls (brass arrangement)" performed by Michel Rondeau.
Show 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/work/models/inehrm/Resource/1484/1/images/RitaCetina.pdf https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2017/10/the-yucatan-governor-who-empowered-women/ https://www.naatikmexico.org/womens-rights-in-mexico-a-brief-history/ https://www.measuringworth.com/dollarvaluetoday/?amount=674&from=1879
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 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 Sunshine, Teen Girl Scientist Monthly).
The trailer for Chapter 1 is here!
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss a single episode! And find out more about the show at www.landwhalepod.com
Oh, hey, wanna know why Eleanor declared Melvil Dewey an enemy of the podcast?? CLASSISM, SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, RACISM…THE LIFE OF MELVIL DEWEY
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”
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!
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.
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 on Haiti, Library of Congress
- From the Midway, a podcast miniseries on the Chicago World’s Fair
- A New Yorker article about the Haiti Pavilion at the World’s Fair
- An episode of NPR’s Fresh Air on the Remarkable Life of Frederick Douglass
Learn More about Mary Church Terrell
- National Portrait Gallery portrait and info
- Short PBS video about Church Terrell
- Ms. Magazine article about Church Terrell
- History Chicks podcast part one, part two
- _Unladylike_ profile of Church Terrell
- Church Terrell episode of _Encyclopedia Womanica_
- _Everyday Black History_ podcast episode on Church Terrell
- _Girltrek's Black History Bootcamp_ episode on Church Terrell
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 can subscribe to our RSS feed here.
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. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell.
- Tyina Steptoe. 'Mary Church Terrell (1863-1964)'. Black Past.
- SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) cooperative page for Mary Church Terrell
- US National Archives. Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell with Alison M. Parker.
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.)
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 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 to in the meantime:
- Driving The Green Book
- Cognitive Dissident
- Function with Anil Dash
- 1619
- This whole list of podcasts collated by the folks at Bello Collective
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. 62, No. 3. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.01). You can find Scheherezade on twitter at twitter.com/arete20
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 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. Forging African American Minds: Black Pragmatism, “intelligent labor,” and a new look at industrial education, 1879–1900. American Nineteenth Century History. Mar2016, Vol. 17 Issue 1, p43-73.
Linda M. Perkins. Heed Life's Demands: The Educational Philosophy of Fanny Jackson Coppin_. _The Journal of Negro Education. Vol. 51 Issue 3, p181-190
Christel N Temple. The Cosmology of Afrocentric Womanism. Western Journal of Black Studies. Spring2012, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p23-32. http://0-search.ebscohost.com.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76126380&site=eds-live
Sources not directly used in episode but of interest Bryan Conn & Tara Bynum. Encyclopedia of African-American Writing : Five Centuries of Contribution: Trials & Triumphs of Writers, Poets, Publications and Organizations. (2018)
Kendra R. Parker. Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 : She Bites Back. (2020)
Nazera Sadiq Wright. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. (2016)
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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'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 al.,
- This video on the pronunciation of ci and shi
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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.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
- [The Colored American Magazine] (http://coloredamerican.org/?page_id=548#hopkins)
- [N. King. Teaching Crime Fiction and the African American Literary Canon] (http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67208/1/N%20King%20Teaching%20Af%20Am%20Crime%20Fiction.pdf)
- [Richard Yarborough, JoAnn Pavletich, Ira Dworkin, and Lauren Dembowitz. 'Rethinking Pauline Hopkins: Plagiarism, Appropriation, and African American Cultural Production'] (https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajy014)
The four men elected in 1870 were Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. Delarge, and Robert B. Elliott. Hiram Revels was elected to the Senate in 1869 and seated in 1870. [Oct. 19, 1870: First African Americans Elected to the House of Representatives] (https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/african-americans-house-of-reps/)
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 article Call 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_Podcast
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 (Eleanor) think it is interesting and worth paying attention to but there’s a lot of scientific detail, which may not appeal to everyone. If you are so inclined, we move on from this around the 30 minute mark.
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_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-angria
- Brontë Babe blog: https://brontebabeblog.wordpress.com/juvenilia-a-z/
The third and final part of our biographical coverage of Martin R. Delany.
Transcripts and links coming soon.
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_1812-1885
African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2000) edited by Emanuel S. Nelson
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.76.101
The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
TRANSCRIPT COMING SOON!
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)
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!!)
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Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this advertisement).
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):
Our theme music for this episode was “Deck the Halls,” performed by Michel Rondeau, available under a CC attribution 3.0 license.
Break / transition music for this episode: https://musopen.org/music/611-etudes-op-25/
Bed music used during short story: Podington Bear’s Dark Water (CC attribution 3.0): https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Fathomless_-_Ambient
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/illustration-from-the-star-by-h-g-wells
https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-Wells
Some context on the word “Hottentot”: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 Immortal
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hi 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 …
E 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, …
In 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 …
In 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 …
MS 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 …
MS 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 …
Adaptations 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
IMPORTANT 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Episode 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 …
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.
In 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 …
Episode 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 …
… [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 …
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 …
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 …
Happy 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 …
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 …
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 …
Hi 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 …
UPDATE: 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 …
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? …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Scholars 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 …
EPISODE 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 …
“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, …
In 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 …
Show 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 …