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? 

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Episode 22 - Season Four Intro

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

Hiatus Announcement

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.…

Episode 21 – Martin R. Delany’s Writing

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…

Episode 20 – Martin R. Delany (Part One)

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!!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this…

Episode 19 – Marie Corelli’s Writing

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 18 – Beautiful Star of … Apocalypse?

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…

Episode 17 – Marie Corelli (Part Two)

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

Episode 16 – Mary Shelley’s Writing

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…

Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)

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…

Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Two)

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…

Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part One)

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…

Episode 14 – Season Three Intro

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,…

Episode 13 – The Trollope Who Stole Christmas

Episode 11 – Frances Eleanor Trollope

Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the nineteenth-century writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (lesbian science-fiction writer extraordinaire) and beyond. Hosted by Dr. Courtney Floyd, a specialist in nineteenth-century literature and print culture, and Eleanor Dumbill, a PhD Candidate in Victorian literature and publishing. New episodes on the last Friday of each month.

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