Season 1 Episode 6: Paper Worlds
Hosted By Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung
With Guests Alice Crossley, Hannah Field, Paisley Mann, and Deborah Wynne
From valentines to wallpaper, this episode explores the creative ways that Victorians interacted with paper.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Learn more about Alice Crossley’s research.
Explore the Museum of London’s Valentine’s Card Collection (Jonathan King Collection).
Read Alice Crossley’s JVC blog essay on Victorian valentines.
Learn more about Hannah Field’s research.
Examine Kate Greenaway’s Design for Nursery Wallpaper in Victorian Things.
Check out the living wallpaper in the Glyndebourne Opera’s production of L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Learn more about Paisley Mann’s research.
Check out these photographs of nineteenth-century and present-day French newspaper kiosks.
Read an abstract of Paisley Mann’s article on late Victorian guidebooks for women travelling to Paris.
Learn more about Deborah Wynne’s research.
Check out Deborah Wynne’s blog, Textile Stories.
Read Deborah Wynne’s article on Dickens and rags recycling in the Victorian period.
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.
Charlotte Brontë's "Little Book," 1830. The Brontë Society.