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Lost Ladies of Lit — 250 episodes
The Gospel of Mary with Sarah Parkhouse
Celia Fremlin — The Hours Before Dawn with Emily Midorikawa
ENCORE: Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
ENCORE WITH UPDATE: Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
ENCORE: Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
ENCORE: Miles Franklin — My Brilliant Career
ENCORE: Jane White —Quarry with Helen Hughes
ENCORE WITH UPDATE! Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
Nettie Jones — Fish Tales with Hannah Eko
Josephine Tey — The Daughter of Time with Jennifer Morag Henderson
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry—The Tale of the Rose with Sara Kippur
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton — Who Would Have Thought It? with Quite Literally Books
Juanita Harrison—My Great, Wide, Beautiful World with Cathryn Halverson
Magda Szabó — Abigail with Deborah H. Sussman
Mary Elizabeth Braddon — Lady Audley's Secret with Kristine Huntley
ENCORE and updates! Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Stories with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Hazel Hawthorne — Salt House with Allison Bass-Riccio and Livia Tenzer
From Jane Austen to Zadie Smith — Advice from Women Writers for a More Productive 2026 (Encore Presentation)
Virginia Faulkner — Willa Cather Champion, with Brad Bigelow
Katharine Lee Bates — "Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride"
Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg
Malachi Whitaker — And So Did I with Valerie Waterhouse
The Sitting Room: A Treasure Trove of "Lost Ladies"
Rosalind Ashe — Moths with Lisa B. Kröger
Radclyffe Hall — The Well of Loneliness with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death with Mimi Pond
HIATUS ENCORE: Miriam Karpilove with Jessica Kirzane
HIATUS ENCORE: Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
HIATUS ENCORE: Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
HIATUS ENCORE: Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Else Jerusalem — Red House Alley with Translator Stephanie Gorrell Ortega
Edna O'Brien — The Country Girls with Edan Lepucki
Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
Jessie Redmon Fauset — Plum Bun with Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper
E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand with Rose Neal
ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
Angela Carter — The Bloody Chamber
Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Penning Patriotism — Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful"
Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie
Frances Wright — A Few Days in Athens with Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust
Katharine S. White — Shaping The New Yorker, with Amy Reading
Literary Jewelry with Leigh Batnick Plessner
Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass
Hiatus Replay: Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song
Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro
Zitkála-Šá — "The School Days of an Indian Girl" with Jessi Haley and Erin Marie Lynch
Christina Rossetti — Speaking Likenesses with Bond & Grace's Ayana Christie
Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins
Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Sanora Babb — Whose Names Are Unknown with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Eliza Haywood — The Female Spectator and Betsy Thoughtless with Kelly J. Plante
Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
HIATUS ENCORE: M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman
Sigrid Schultz — “The Dragon from Chicago” with Pamela Toler
HIATUS ENCORE: Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser
Hiatus Encore: The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
HIATUS ENCORE: Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
Ann Schlee (Rhine Journey) with Sam Johnson-Schlee and Lucy Scholes
Miles Franklin (My Brilliant Career)
Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Lost Lady of Translation — with Jo Salas
Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie Courogen
Kim and Amy Catch Their Book Breath
Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet’s Daughter with Avril Horner
Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux
Speranza, a.k.a Oscar Wilde’s Mom
Whose Line is it Anyway? Elizabeth Taylor vs. Elizabeth Taylor
Emilie Loring —Uncharted Seas with Patti Bender
Angela Milne — One Year’s Time with Simon David Thomas
Carolyn Wells — Murder in the Bookshop with Rebecca Rego Barry
Zelda Fitzgerald — Save Me the Waltz with Stephanie Peebles Tavera
HiATUS ENCORE: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
HIATUS ENCORE: Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick
HIATUS ENCORE: The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
Hiatus Replay: Maud Hart Lovelace — The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein
Hiatus Replay: Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
Hiatus Replay: Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith
Hiatus Replay: Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson
Hiatus Replay: Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
Mary McCarthy’s The Group Turns 60
Lydia Maria Child and the “Thanksgiving” Poem
Alba de Céspedes — Forbidden Notebook with Joy Castro
The Women Who Illuminated Manuscripts
Christine de Pizan — The Book of the City of Ladies with Kathleen B. Jones
Cita Press & Sui Sin Far with Juliana Castro Varón and Victoria Namkung
Meridel Le Sueur — The Girl with Rosemary Hennessy
An England Travelogue
Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson
Verbal Faux Pas and Mondegreens
Sylvia Townsend Warner — Lolly Willowes with Sarah Watling
Back to School Prof Edition
Susan Taubes — Divorcing with Rosemary Kelty
Hollywood’s Golden Age (for Women)
Ismat Chughtai - The Quilt and Other Stories with Tania Malik
Anne Askew’s Unyielding Spirit
Janet Lewis — The Wife of Martin Guerre with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Episode 151: Elspeth Barker — O Caledonia
Elizabeth Smart — By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept with Rosemary Sullivan and Maya Gallus
Murasaki Shikibu — The Tale of Genji
Winnifred Eaton — Cattle with Mary Chapman
Mercy Otis Warren — Revolutionary Scribe
Jane White — Quarry with Helen Hughes
Unlikely Children’s Authors
Theodora Keogh — Street Music with Maud Newton
Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life with Nava Atlas
Miriam Karpilove — Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love with Jessica Kirzane
Hard-Knock Life Memoirs
The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Turns 40
Ursula Parrott — Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon
Jenny Diski and Doris Lessing
Pauline E. Hopkins — Of One Blood with Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney
The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald
Jane and Anna Maria Porter with Devoney Looser
“Dirty” Books
Minae Mizumura — A True Novel with Lavanya Krishnan
Lost Ladies of Music with Leah Broad
Han Suyin — Winter Love
Twins In Fiction
Margaret Oliphant — Hester with Perri Klass
Katrina Trask and the Ghosts of Yaddo
Elinor Glyn — Three Weeks with Hilary A. Hallett
Hiatus Replay: Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote
Hiatus Replay: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford — Molly Bawn with Jessica Callahan
Hiatus Replay: Marthe Bibesco — The Green Parrot with Lauren Cerand
Hiatus Replay: Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung
Hiatus Replay: Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux
Victorian Parlour Games
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
Our Covid Binges
Dorothy Richardson — Dawn’s Left Hand with Scott McCracken and Brad Bigelow
Thanksgiving-ish Books and Films
Elsie Robinson with Allison Gilbert
America’s First Female Mayor
Rona Jaffe — The Best of Everything with Josh Lambert
May Agnes Fleming — The Midnight Queen with Brian Busby
Medical Treatment of Women and Mothers with Alena Dillon
Anne Hampton Brewster — St. Martin’s Summer with Etta Madden
Lola Ridge with Terese Svoboda
Cabinets of Curiosities & The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Helen Cromwell — Good Time Party Girl with Christina Ward
Odds & Ends
Miriam Michelson — The Superwoman with Lori Harrison-Kahan
Laura Valentine -- The Secret Shakespeare Editor
Margaret Kennedy — Troy Chimneys
Sylvia Beach and Ulysses
Nora May French with Catherine Prendergast
Mabel Walker Willebrandt — First Lady of Law
Heterodoxy with Joanna Scutts
Lost Ladies of Art with Sara Woster
Debora Vogel — Acacias Bloom with Juliette Bretan
Merchant Ivory Fan Club
Special Bonus Episode: Penelope Mortimer — Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
A Very Brief History of the Proust Questionnaire
Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald
Literal Beach Reads
Tess Slesinger — The Unpossessed with Paula Rabinowitz and Peter Davis
Maud Wagner — Lost Lady of Tattoo Art
Kay Dick — They with Lucy Scholes
Books in the Vein of Downton Abbey
Mary Taylor — Miss Miles with Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
Quilt-Making As a Feminist, Political Act
Dorothy Evelyn Smith — O, the Brave Music with Simon Thomas
The Polarizing Ambiguities of Motherhood in Books
Hilma Wolitzer — Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
Ukrainian Poet Lesya Ukrainka’s The Forest Song
Frances Harper — Iola Leroy with Dr. Koritha Mitchell
The Gillian Beer Fan Club
Daisy Fellowes — Sundays with Leigh Plessner
Lost Ladies of Aviation
Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
A Short History of Carousels
Dorothy B. Hughes — The Expendable Man
Go Ask Alice James
Gene Stratton-Porter — A Girl of the Limberlost with Sadie Stein
Fowl is Fair
Margery Latimer — We Are Incredible with Joy Castro
The Happy New Year Episode -- Bennington Podcast, Books We Read, and More!
Virginia Cowles — Looking for Trouble with Judith Mackrell
“The Wicked Editor’s Christmas Dream” by Alice Mary Vince
Lucia Berlin — A Manual for Cleaning Women with Mimi Pond
Much Better than CATS — Esther Averill’s Jenny and the Cat Club
M.F.K. Fisher — How to Cook a Wolf with Anne Zimmerman
Louisa May Alcott’s “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving”
Simone de Beauvoir — The Inseparables with Lauren Elkin
The Preserved Girl-Corpse of Ancient Rome
G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow
Monster, She Wrote with Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger
Ida Craddock with Amy Sohn
Swiping Right (and Left) in the Regency Era
Ouida — Moths
Dare Wright and The Lonely Doll Series
Emma Wolf — Other Things Being Equal with Sarah Seltzer
It’s Our One-Year Anniversary Episode!
Rosamond Lehmann — Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes
Literary Sisters, Twisted & Otherwise
Aphra Behn — The History of a Nun with Dr. Sarah Raff
For Whom The Bell Rings -- Backpacks and Boarding Schools
Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson
Let Genius Burn — Louisa May Alcott
Edna Ferber — So Big with Dr. Caroline Frick
Disaster to the Wench with Nina Berry & Brenda Pontiff
Lorraine Hansberry — A Raisin in the Sun with Dr. Soyica Diggs Colbert
Mary Astell — The First Feminist
Edith Lewis & Willa Cather with Melissa Homestead
Judith Love Cohen — a.ka. Jack Black’s Mom
Nancy Mitford — The Pursuit of Love/Love In a Cold Climate with Laura Thompson
The American Guide Series
Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote
Celia Thaxter — A Picturesque Poet Turns to Crime Writing
Maud Hart Lovelace - The Betsy-Tacy High School Books with Sadie Stein
Anna Komnene — Europe's First Female Historian
Peg Bracken — The I Hate to Cook Book with Helene Siegel
All For the Love of Libraries
Amy Levy — Reuben Sachs with Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith
Martha Gellhorn
Jocelyn Playfair — A House in the Country
A Short History of Riding Side Saddle
Charmian Kittredge London with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Dear Film Industry, Please Consider Adapting These Books by Women
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford—Molly Bawn with Jessica Callahan
The Gilded Age
Marthe Bibesco — The Green Parrot with Lauren Cerand
A Real Life Lady Whistledown
Marjorie Hillis — Live Alone and Like It with Joanna Scutts
Rosa Bonheur — Lost Lady of Art
Louise Fitzhugh — Harriet the Spy with Leslie Brody and Laura Mazer
On Books We Love... and Books We Hate
Stella Gibbons — Nightingale Wood
From Jane Austen to Zadie Smith — Advice from Women Writers for a More Productive 2021
Sui Sin Far — Mrs. Spring Fragrance with Victoria Namkung
Kate Douglas Wiggin — The Birds’ Christmas Carol
Nathalia Crane — The Janitor’s Boy and Other Poems
Somewhere In Time On Anne’s Mackinac Island
Constance Fenimore Woolson — Anne with Anne Boyd Rioux
A Falling Out Among Friends — Willa Cather and Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Home-Maker
Gossip & Heartbreak in the Letters of Emily Eden
Emily Eden - The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House
If Books Could Talk
Simone Schwarz-Bart - The Bridge of Beyond
What's In a Name?
E.M. Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
We Went, We Saw, We Concord
Monica Dickens - Mariana
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