Season 1 Episode 3: Leaving Their Mark
Hosted By Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung
With Guests Deborah Lutz, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, and Talia Schaffer
Three leading voices in Victorian studies join us to talk about how Victorian women left their mark, both literally and figuratively.
Transcript
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Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Learn more about Deborah Lutz’s research.
Explore the Bienecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and find George Eliot’s copy of Wordsworth’s The Prelude: Beinecke Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 963, Box 56.
Learn more about Lorraine Janzen Kooistra’s research.
Explore Lorraine Janzen Kooistra’s COVE Digital Edition of Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf. Edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra et al., 2018.
Check out “Clemence Housman’s ‘The Were-Wolf’” at Victorian Things.
Read Lorraine Janzen Kooistra’s “Doubles and Doubling Back: On (Re)Reading Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf.” Victorian Review blog, 2019.
Learn more about Talia Schaffer’s research.
Read Mrs. Oliphant et al.’s Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign: A Book of Appreciations. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
Learn about Talia Schaffer’s book Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction. Princeton University Press, 2021.
Read Talia Schaffer’s “Victorian Feminist Criticism: Recovery Work and the Care Community.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018.
Read a short biography of “Mrs. Alexander” via Project Gutenberg.
Check out “Mrs. Alexander’s Mark” at Victorian Things.
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.
Laurence and Clemence Housman. “Rol’s Worship.” The Were-Wolf, 1896 (detail).