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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 patreon.com/c/LostLadiesofLit339.
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Rosemary Tonks — The Bloater with Rebecca Perry
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We’re honored to welcome 2026 Booker Prize finalist Rebecca Perry, author of the remarkable debut novel May We Feed The King, as a guest this week to discuss one of her favo
Emily Hahn — No Hurry to Get Home with Julia Cooke
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) From bushwhacking through the Congo to smoking opium in Shanghai, Emily “Mickey” Hahn turned her need for adventure into captivating copy for The New Yorker, which published
Women Diarists with Betsy Rubiner
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Chronicles, confidantes, confessionals. Diaries have historically served all these purposes and more, allowing women to speak out in a world that sometimes preferred they ke
The Gospel of Mary with Sarah Parkhouse
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) First surfacing in 1896 at a marketplace in Cairo, scraps of ancient papyrus left scholars gobsmacked by the discovery: a fragmented account of Mary Magdalene in conversatio
Celia Fremlin — The Hours Before Dawn with Emily Midorikawa
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) “Things that go bump in the night…?” Try sleep-deprived mothers, for starters. British author Celia Fremlin recognized the terrors of trying to hold it together while caring
ENCORE: Mary MacLane — I Await the Devil's Coming with Cathryn Halverson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We're concluding our own "Hot Girl Summer" with the writer Mary MacLane, a defiant and wildly egotistical 19-year-old resident of Butte, Montana, whose confessional diary im
ENCORE WITH UPDATE: Brigid Brophy — The King of a Rainy Country
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) If Brigid Brophy’s The King of a Rainy Country had a soundtrack, it might include the soft patter of rain on a garret window, jazz drifting from a smoky cafe, the hum of a V
ENCORE: Lucy Irvine — Castaway with Francesca Segal
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Our "sweltering summer" series continues this week with a re-play of a truly wild desert-island memoir. When Lucy Irvine answered a classified ad to play Girl Friday to a re
ENCORE: Miles Franklin — My Brilliant Career
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) This week we're revisiting an Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — which originally captured Kim and Amy’s fancy back in 2024. Published in 1901 an
ENCORE: Jane White —Quarry with Helen Hughes
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) We're celebrating summer with another sultry, almost-suffocating novel from our podcast vaults, one clearly written with William Golding's Lord of the Flies in mind. When Ja
ENCORE WITH UPDATE! Ruth Prawer Jhabvala — Heat and Dust with Brigitte Hales
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) With Counterpoint Press's new editions of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's work (including her Booker-Prize winning novel Heat and Dust and a new short story collection Disinheritance
Nettie Jones — Fish Tales with Hannah Eko
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) First published in 1983 after being championed by Toni Morrison, Nettie Jones’s Fish Tales recounts one woman’s trauma-filled, hedonistic quest for personal freedom amidst a
Josephine Tey — The Daughter of Time with Jennifer Morag Henderson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) 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
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry—The Tale of the Rose with Sara Kippur
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) 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 w
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton — Who Would Have Thought It? with Quite Literally Books
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) 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 nov
Juanita Harrison—My Great, Wide, Beautiful World with Cathryn Halverson
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Determined from a young age to escape the Jim-Crow South and see new places, Mississippi native Juanita Harrison managed, as a working-class Black woman, to cultivate her ow
Magda Szabó — Abigail with Deborah H. Sussman
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) A literary icon in her native Hungary, Magda Szabó was relatively unknown to English-speaking readers until recent translations of her work opened the door to her powerful s
Mary Elizabeth Braddon — Lady Audley's Secret with Kristine Huntley
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Pass the smelling salts! Readers of the Victorian Era eagerly (or furtively) set scruples aside to read Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley’s Secret —
ENCORE and updates! Elizabeth Garver Jordan — The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Stories with Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Her Life in Ink, a brand new biography by Sharon Harris about Elizabeth Garver Jordan, provides a good reason to plunder our podcast vault this week to revisit an episode ab
Hazel Hawthorne — Salt House with Allison Bass-Riccio and Livia Tenzer
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) “Queen of the Dunes” Hazel Hawthorne was a Cape Cod legend who wrote about The Road nearly two decades before her one-time tenant, Jack Kerouac. A uniquely feminine precurso
From Jane Austen to Zadie Smith — Advice from Women Writers for a More Productive 2026 (Encore Presentation)
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this encore presentation, Kim and Amy take stock by dusting off a "New Year’s" episode from 1921, sharing secrets of what makes their writing partnership work and turning
Virginia Faulkner — Willa Cather Champion, with Brad Bigelow
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Virginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic American literature. A young flapper who made an authoria
Katharine Lee Bates — "Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride"
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Before penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so invisible) labor tackled by an unsung Christmas hero
Djuna Barnes — Nightwood with Margaret Vandenburg
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Dark and disturbing, yet strangely redemptive, Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist masterpiece Nightwood left even its greatest champion, T.S. Eliot, a bit bewildered. Guest Marga
Malachi Whitaker — And So Did I with Valerie Waterhouse
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Likened to a fresh Yorkshire breeze, Malachi Whitaker’s year-in-the-life memoir And So Did I, published in 1939, is a quirky spirit-quest juxtaposing wry humor and contempla
The Sitting Room: A Treasure Trove of "Lost Ladies"
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this special episode, Kim and Amy recount their recent visit to The Sitting Room, a unique library and literary salon in Sonoma, CA, dedicated to women's literature. Trip
Rosalind Ashe — Moths with Lisa B. Kröger
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Republished this year by Valancourt books, Rosalind’s Ashe’s 1976 gothic thriller Moths is a spine-chilling tale of supernatural seduction featuring a femme fatale who lures
Radclyffe Hall — The Well of Loneliness with Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) Often called “the lesbian Bible,” Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness has been sparking debate for nearly a century. Banned in the UK after an infamous obscen
Jessica Mitford — The American Way of Death with Mimi Pond
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) In this follow-up to our 2021 episode on Nancy Mitford, we’re turning the spotlight on her younger sister, Jessica (a.k.a. “Decca”) Mitford, an activist and journalist whom
HIATUS ENCORE: Miriam Karpilove with Jessica Kirzane
Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1353874/fan_mail/new) With her witty and self-deprecating takes on dating and the single life, the narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s Diary of a Lonely Girl: Or the Battle Against Free Love is the 19
