HIATUS ENCORE: G.E. Trevelyan — Appius and Virginia with Brad Bigelow

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Woman yearns for child, adopts orangutan instead. Disaster ensues. That's the premise of Gertrude Trevelyan's wonderfully bizarre 1932 novel, Appius and Virginia. We're joined in this encore episode by guest Brad Bigelow, whose obsession with obscure books was celebrated in the 2016 New Yorker profile “The Custodian of Forgotten Books.”
Discussed in this episode:
Appius and Virginia by G.E. Trevelyan (neglectedbooks.com/?p=5804)
Every Which Way But Loose (imdb.com/title/tt0077523) (1978 Film)
Black Mirror (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror)
The Twilight Zone (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone)
NeglectedBooks.com (neglectedbooks.com)
“The Custodian of Forgotten Books” (The New Yorker) (newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-custodian-…)
His Monkey Wife by John Collier (amazon.com/His-Monkey-Wife-Married-Chimp/dp/09…)
Dorothy Richardson (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Richardson)
May Sinclaire (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Sinclair)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon)
Room by Emma Donohue (amazon.com/Room-Novel-Emma-Donoghue/dp/0316098…)
Bear by Marian Engel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(novel))
Oxford’s Lady Margaret Hall (lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Newdigate Prize (britannica.com/art/Newdigate-Prize)
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (amazon.com/Room-Ones-Own-Virginia-Woolf/dp/161…)
Hot-House by G.E. Trevelyan (neglectedbooks.com/?p=6657)
“If She Was a Bloke, She’d Still Be In Print” (The Guardian) (theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/10/if-she-was-a…)
Virginia Faulkner (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Faulkner)
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode 41 on Edith Lewis with Melissa Homestead (lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/41-edith-lewis-amp…)

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