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The Spare Change Library
The dime novel and popular literature podcast.
Episodes
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: The Printed Image (part 1): The Day's Doings
This episode features Mike Sgier (Distinctive Collections Coordinator) to talk about the technical process of engraving and the (often silent) historical producers of the dynamic illustrations that illuminate periodicals including: 'Days Doings', 'Golden Argosy', and 'The Pen and Pencil'. Hosted…
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: Groom of the Tomb: Gamifying the Book
This episode explores the popular genre of gamebook stories. Demian Katz (Director of Library Technology at Villanova) joins us to talk about his original gamebook, Groom of the Tomb, followed by a live-playthrough demonstration with guest Rebecca Oviedo (Distinctive Collections Archivist).…
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: "What's in a Dime Novel?" (part 2 of 2): Revisiting the Edward T. LeBlanc interviews
This episode unpacks some of the issues surrounding Dime Novel bibliography discussed in the 1982 Edward T. LeBlanc interviews conducted by Dime Novel scholar Lydia Schurman. Over 40 years later, questions such as ‘How do we define the genre Dime Novel’ are still pertinent today. Dime Novel…
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: "What's in a Dime Novel?" (part 1 of 2): Revisiting the Edward T. LeBlanc interviews
This episode unpacks some of the issues surrounding Dime Novel bibliography discussed in the 1982 Edward T. LeBlanc interviews conducted by Dime Novel scholar Lydia Schurman. Over 40 years later, questions such as ‘How do we define the genre Dime Novel’ are still pertinent today. Dime Novel…
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: Fortune Telling in Mystery Magazine: "The Oracle"
This episode features readings from Mystery Magazine followed by a discussion of one of the magazine’s most mysterious topics: Fortune Telling. One of the earliest examples of the ‘crime pulp’ genre, Mystery Magazine published a total of 216 issues from November 1917 to July 1927.
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: Be Honest and True: Golden Days Puzzle Poems
This episode explores a very personal ‘Villa Nova’ connection to reader-submitted puzzle poems from Golden Days for Boys and Girls (c. 1880-1907). It features interviews with Rebecca Oviedo (Distinctive Collections Archivist) and Demian Katz (Director of Library Technology at Villanova) as well…
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapters XXXIX and XL
This week, in the conclusion of our story, we learn a little more of the fates of our friends (and enemies).
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXVIII
This week: a memorable end for a memorable villain.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXVII
This week: a thrilling rescue -- but is it in time?
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXVI
This week, Mr. Shelton and Mr. Lawrence go on an important mission!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXV
A fatal Christmas Eve is approaching; this week, we learn more of what it holds for Lily Lawrence.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXIV
This week, the topic on everyone's lips and minds is an impending wedding.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXIII
This week, Mr. Shelton continues his investigations, getting ever closer to the terrible truth.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXII
This week, Lancelot Darling and Mrs. Vance share an awkward adventure with a startling outcome.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXXI
What could be more exhilarating than a moonlight sleigh ride with Lancelot Darling?
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXX
This week, Lily is whisked from one prison to another!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXIX
This week, Fanny's luck finally begins to change.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXVIII
This week, we continue to learn of Lily's most recent tribulations.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXVII
After some time away, we return to Lily Lawrence and learn of her latest trials.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXVI
This week, Fanny reveals many important facts to Mr. Shelton.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXV
Mr. Shelton is about to make a series of disturbing discoveries!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXIV
This week: a furious battle that defies description!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXIII
Today, Mrs. Vance is having rather a bad day.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXII
This week, Mr. Shelton's investigations lead him to more clues, a new friend, and quite a few glasses of water.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XXI
This week, Mr. Shelton, the famous detective, finds his trail warming up!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XX
Lancelot Darling is about to receive the latest in a series of unpleasant surprises....
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XIX
This week, chapter XIX allows us to spend a melancholy evening with Lily Lawrence.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XVIII
This week, chapter XVIII, in which we learn more about the delightful home life of the Leverets.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter XVII
We spend this week in the company of Mrs. Vance.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapters XV and XVI
This week, we spend time with Lily's fiendish captors and learn more of her present fate.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapters XIII and XIV
In this week's double episode, the mystery of Lily's apparent death deepens for her loved ones, and a detective is consulted.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapters XI and XII
In this double episode, we follow Lily's continued struggles in captivity.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter X
This week, Lily learns the horrifying source of the strange noises haunting her cell.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter IX
Following last week's perilous adventures, Lily finds herself in new quarters this week.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter VIII
In this week's action-packed installment, Lily learns first-hand about some of the many dangers surrounding her.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter VII
After a few weeks with Lily and her persecutors, we return to Lancelot Darling and the Lawrence household to see how her loved ones are holding up.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter VI
This week's episode features the first meeting between two dangerous women: scheming widow Mrs. Vance and the gold-hungry Haidee Leveret!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter V
In the latest installment of Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller's The Bride of the Tomb, Lily Lawrence learns of her terrible fate!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter IV
Last week, the shocking disappearance of Lily Lawrence's body was discovered. This week, we visit with the conspirators!
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter III
This week, our hero, Lancelot Darling, has an urgent request for the father of his lost fiancé, Lily Lawrence.
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Professor M's Lecture Series: Eddie LeBlanc in conversation with Lydia Schurman, Episode 1
In a conversation recorded in August, 1982, scholar and bibliographer Edward T. LeBlanc talks to Lydia Schurman about the definition of "dime novel."
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter II
Our story continues with a visit to the funeral of beautiful suicide Lily Lawrence, and the plot rapidly thickens! Stay tuned every Thursday for more twists and turns.
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Mittie's Storytime: The Bride of the Tomb, Chapter I
Our new podcast kicks off with the first chapter of Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller's The Bride of the Tomb, a tale of romance and mystery first serialized in the New York Family Story Paper in 1881. Stay with us for all 40 installments -- more adventure every Thursday (except major holidays)!
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