HIATUS ENCORE: The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George

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Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is the only one of its kind to feature a racially-conscious Black heroine at its center. Dr. Leigh-Michil George, a lecturer in the English Department at Geffen Academy at UCLA, joins us to discuss the novel and its historical importance as well as its influence on Regency-era television adaptations of Sanditon and Bridgerton.
Discussed in this episode:
The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press) (broadviewpress.com/product/the-woman-of-colour)
Dr. Leigh-Michil George (geffenacademy.ucla.edu/list-detail?pk=139570)
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield_Park)
Sanditon (pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/sanditon) (PBS)
Bridgerton (netflix.com/title/80232398) (Netflix)
Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn (juliaquinn.com/series/bridgertons)
Sanditon by Jane Austen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanditon)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice)
Elizabeth Bennett (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bennet)
Caroline Bingley (janeausten.fandom.com/wiki/Caroline_Bingley)
Netherfield Park (janeausten.fandom.com/wiki/Netherfield_Park)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica
“Black People in Britain During the Regency” (National Portrait Gallery) (npg.org.uk/learning/digital/history/abolition-…)
“The Abolition of Slavery in Britain” (Historic UK) (historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Abo…)
Olivia Carpenter (University of York) (york.ac.uk/english/our-staff/oliviacarpenter)
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