Transcript

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Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Learn more about Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge’s work.  

View images of the layette pincushion discussed in this episode here.

Explore the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection of layette pincushions.  

Read Chapter One of  David Copperfield along with Lisa and keep an eye out for pincushion references!

Check out Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge’s book The Plot Thickens: Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier.

To keep up with Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge’s Great Expectations project, check out their twitter account: @c19_pregnancy.

Learn more about Vicky Mill’s research. 

Explore the Foundling Museum’s 2015 exhibition “The Fallen Woman” or download the exhibition guide for an overview of the exhibition and suggested readings. 

Check out the London Metropolitan Archives.

View images of Ann Gidding’s petition.  

Learn more about Karen Bourrier’s work. 

View some examples of Victorian hidden mother portraits. 

View the photograph of Dinah Craik and her daughter Dorothy, discussed by Karen Bourrier, here.  

Check out Karen Bourrier’s books The Measure of Manliness: Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel and Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik.

Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.

Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.