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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Link to “The Star”: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_35TITLE 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=uvfhOgpDRxIJudy 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_-_Ambienthttps://www.bl.uk/collection-items/illustration-from-the-star-by-h-g-wellshttps://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-WellsSome context on the word “Hottentot”: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987
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”DownloadEpisode 19 Transcript: Download~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this advertisement).
An informal chat with Jo Turner, a PhD student at Loughborough University studying Marie Corelli. Jo can be found on twitter at @coppertapestryThe Sorrows of Satan (Film)
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!
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
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.
