82. The Polarizing Ambiguities of Motherhood in Books
Olivia Colman in The Lost Daughter
In this week’s mini episode on “unnatural mothers,” we discuss classics such as Anna Karenina and The Awakening and more contemporary works, including Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood and Rachel Cusk’s memoir A Life’s Work.
Discussed in this episode:
Lost Ladies of Lit episode with Hilma Wolitzer
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer
“I Was Only Being Honest” by Rachel Cusk (The Guardian)
The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on A Girl of the Limberlost with Sadie Stein
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Nancy Mitford with Laura Thompson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
“What an Ugly Child She Is” by Elena Ferrante (The New Yorker)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Daisy Fellowes with Leigh Plessner
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Ouida and Moths
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on E.M. Delafield and Diary of a Provincial Lady
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Maker