Lost Ladies of Lit
A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers. You can support Lost Ladies of Lit by visiting https://www.patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
Lost Ladies of Lit
Latest Episodes
Josephine Tey — The Daughter of Time with Jennifer Morag Henderson
Considered one of the greatest crime novels of all time, Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time flipped 450 years of British history on its head by re-examining Richard III’s purported involvement in the murder of his two young nephews, ...
Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira — A Prodigy’s Meteoric Rise… and Murder
“Mommy Dearest” meets 1930s Spain in this episode’s exploration of a young woman conceived and raised by her single mother to be a prodigy and prototype of the “perfect woman.” Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira more than lived up to her mother’s ...
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry—The Tale of the Rose with Sara Kippur
Though her high-flying literary husband took center-stage, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry was more than just the metaphorical “rose” in his novella The Little Prince. She was a writer and artist in her own right, with a gift for storytellin...
Clara S. Foltz, María Ruiz de Burton and the Land Wars That Stymied Them Both
In this follow-up to last week’s episode, Amy explores the connection between legal pioneer Clara Foltz, California’s first female attorney, and our previous “lost lady,” María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. After fighting to change state laws so that ...
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton — Who Would Have Thought It? with Quite Literally Books
The first Mexican-American woman novelist to be published in English, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton chose a surprising subject matter—East Coast high society—for her first novel, Who Would Have Thought It? She was uniquely qualified to s...