Margaret Drabble — The Millstone with Carrie Mullins

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Margaret Drabble’s 1965 novel The Millstone offers a nuanced portrayal of single motherhood in 1960s London. Author Carrie Mullins, whose 2024 nonfiction work The Book of Mothers explores literary depictions of motherhood, joins us to discuss Drabble’s fearless protagonist, Rosamund. Together, we explore how The Millstone captures the joys and burdens of motherhood, and how Drabble’s sharp, ahead-of-its-time portrayal speaks to contemporary readers.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood (us.macmillan.com/books/9781250285065/thebookof…) by Carrie Mullins
The Millstone (amazon.com/Millstone-Penguin-Decades-Margaret-…) by Margaret Drabble
A Touch of Love (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Touch_of_Love_(1969_film)) starring Sandy Dennis and Ian McKellan
A.S. Byatt (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt)
Cambride Ladies Dining Society (akennedysmith.substack.com)
Lost Ladies of LitEpisode No. 139 (lostladiesoflit.com/transcripts/139-nora-ephro…)on Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Little Women (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Women) by Louisa May Alcott
“Little Women” and the Marmee Problem (newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/little-…)
The Color Purple (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple) by Alice Walker
Pride & Prejudice (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice)by Jane Austen
Madame Bovary (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Bovary) by Gustave Flaubert

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