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Jul 16, 2024 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew |Ann Schlee |E.M. Forster
Pack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rhine Journey, newly republished by McNally Editions.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew |Henry David Thoreau |Carolyn Wells
A pioneer of the detective/mystery genre who began writing locked-room mystery novels a decade before Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells was a turn-of-the-twentieth century celebrity who counted Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Mark Twain among her many famous friends and fans. Guest Rebecca Rego Barry, whose new book is The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells: Investigations Into a Forgotten Mystery Author, joins us to discuss Wells and her 1936 detective novel, Murder in the Bookshop.
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Feb 10, 2024 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
AMY HELMES: Thank you for listening to Lost Ladies of Lit for access to all of our future bonus episodes and to help support the cause of recovering forgotten women writers, join our Patreon community, visit lostladiesoflit.com and click Become a Patron to find out more. KIM ASKEW: Welcome to Lost Ladies of Lit, the podcast dedicated to dusting off forgotten women writers. I'm Kim Askew, here with my co-host, Amy Helmes, who is not a big fan of mystery novels, listeners.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
Learn more about the feminist open source publisher cita press and An Immortal Book: Selected Writings of Sui Sin Far, a curated collection of short fiction and nonfiction by the pioneering writer, Sui Sin Far (also known as Edith Maude Eaton), one of our past "lost ladies." A journalist and writer of Chinese and British descent who moved to the U.S, Sui Sin Far wrote about what it was like to live as a Chinese woman in a white America.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
Originally drafted in 1939, the Prohibition-era gangster novel The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur remained unpublished for nearly 40 years. Le Sueur used the intervening decades to transform her work into a beautifully-written, powerful narrative, focusing on the lives of marginalized women in Depression-era America.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
When 'Divorcing' was first published in 1969, the critic Hugh Kenner penned a review for the New York Times that dismissed its author, Susan Taubes, as 'a quick-change artist donning the garments of other writers.' Tragically, merely days after the review's publication, Taubes took her own life. However, in recent years, there has been a profound reassessment of her work.
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Aug 22, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
Ismat Chughtai was one of the boldest and most outspoken writers of her day. Her cleverly-crafted short story “The Quilt” sparked a years-long obscenity trial, but it also helped establish her as a writer who wasn’t afraid to shine a light on taboo subjects and speak frankly about women’s experiences both in the traditional and modern Indian world. Our guest is author Tania Malik whose most recent book, Hope You Are Satisfied, is a suspense-story set in Dubai.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew |Elizabeth Smart
When Elizabeth Smart’s 1945 poetic prose novel “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept” was reissued in 1966, Angela Carter called it "Madame Bovary blasted by lightning," and Morrissey has since credited Smart’s writing as having influenced his lyrics for The Smiths. This week’s guests are biographer Rosemary Sullivan and documentary filmmaker Maya Gallus, both authorities on Smart’s fascinating life and work.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
In today’s mini, we look into the fascinating life of Mercy Otis Warren, a hidden wordsmith of American history and the first female reporter of the American revolution. Armed with a pen as her weapon, Warren wrote scathing satirical plays that ignited the revolution and documented the birth of a nation.
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May 2, 2023 | 
lostladiesoflit.com | Kim L. Askew
This is the Jazz Age novel we should have read in high school! Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife was an instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, and it’s inspired by her own experience as a young divorcée and flapper in New York. Guest Marsha Gordon’s new biography of Parrott, Becoming the Ex-Wife, arrives in bookstores at the same time as a reissue of the dazzling novel from McNally Editions. Links: Ex-Wife by Ursula ParrottBecoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha GordonThe Great Gatsby by F.
