37. Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote
Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac, and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard’s brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.
Discussed in this episode:
The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard
Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Temple House by Elizabeth Stoddard
Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot
“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti
Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte