50. Literary Sisters, Twisted & Otherwise
Whether in fiction or in real life, the relationship between literary sisters can range anywhere from the incredibly productive to the—let’s face it—downright psychotic. Join us as we discuss some lesser known literary sisters and reveal next week’s lost lady!
Discussed in this episode:
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on The History of the Nun: Or The Fair Vow-Breaker by Aphra Behn
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
Le Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Jane and Mary Findlater’s Crossriggs
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy high school books
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Anne
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Princess Marthe Bibesco’s The Green Parrot
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons
George Eliot’s Celia and Dorothea Brook in Middlemarch
Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Edith Wharton’s The Bunner Sisters
The Goblin Market,” by Christina Rosetti
The “weird sisters” from Macbeth
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virgina Woolf by Emily Midorikawa