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Vulgar History: Regency Era

We're in our Regency Era and just finished Mary Shelley Month, and Claire Clairmont REFUSES TO BE IGNORED. We're revisiting the story of this iconic woman, whose story feels even more meaningful now that we've learned about her (kind of) stepmother Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as more about the Regency Era in which Claire made her mark.
Plus, our guest Lesley McDowell's book Clairmont is now available in North America!! (It wasn't when we first recorded this a bit ago). 
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Mary Shelley's Scandalous Sister, Claire Clairmont (Revisited)

Ever since the novel was invented, women have used it as a platform for sharing ideas about sexual consent. In her new book Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel, Dr. Zoë McGee reveals how Jane Austen and other women writers from this time used their stories to try to change society's mind about rape culture - and to reassure survivors they were not alone.
Zoë joins us today to talk about how her research revealed a quiet feminist movement that still resonates today. Because every novel about marriage is also a novel about consent.
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The Regency Era and Consent

It's (American) Thanksgiving, so here's a special American History episode! In this, you can hear my discussion with Dr. Jane Kamensky, President and CEO of Monticello/The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
We talk about how Monticello strives to continually engage visitors with the complex history of enslavement, how Monticello honours Sally Hemings, how Monticello plans to celebrate America's upcoming 250th anniversary, and also we learn answers to burning questions like: is Monticello haunted?? And: can you get mac and cheese there?
Learn more about Monticello at <a href="https://monticello.org/">monticello.org</a>


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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, and America's 250th Anniversary

<a href="https://www.patreon.com/collection/1825387?view=expanded">Click here to watch this episode as a video!</a>
The Ladies of Llangollen, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were Regency-era Irish women who ran off to Northern Wales to live their cottagecore lesbian domestic dream. 
To discuss their adventurous youth and middle-aged Hobbit eras is superstar history podcaster and content creator Katie Charlwood from Who Did What Now!
<a href="https://whodidwhatnowpod.com/">Learn more about Katie and Who Did What Now!</a>
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Regency Era Cottagecore Lesbians: The Ladies of Llangollen

Regency Era heiresses are a part of most Jane Austen novels, as women with fortunes men want to marry into. Some of these fortunes were from old family money, but many of them were new wealth founded on human exploitation on Caribbean plantations.
Our guest, Dr. Miranda Kaufmann, reveals what she's found in her research about heiresses as well as the stories of the people the heiresses enslaved.
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Regency Era Heiresses and the History of Enslavement

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Anne Lister was many things: secret sex diarist, land-owner, mountain climber, womanizer, power lesbian. How did she find a way to thrive during the patriarchal Regency Era, and what does her life story mean to today's queer community?
We're joined by returning guest Kit Heyam and new guest Sarah Wingrove to dish all about Anne Lister's wild life and legacy.
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Anne Lister: Regency-Era Power Lesbian

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of England's best-loved and most-read authors. This year is the 250th anniversary of her birth in December 1775, and her works are as popular as they ever were. But her own story is far less known than that of her heroines. So we're here today to learn all about Jane Austen.
Our guest this week is Paula Byrne, one of the world's leading Jane Austen experts. Paula's new book, Six Weeks by the Sea, is a novel that imagines Jane Austen in love herself.
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Jane Austen: The Life of a Regency Era Literary Icon

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Vulgar History: Regency Era trailer

Mary Shelley famously wrote Frankenstein while on a summer-long sleepover party with her husband, sister, and her husband's friend, Lord Byron.
To close out Mary Shelley Month, it's time for a deep dive on Lord Byron. Joining us is podcast legend Emily Edwards (from F***bois of Literature and Ticklish Business fame).
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Mary Shelley Month: Lord Byron, The Original F***boi of Literature

Mary Shelley is still most famous for writing FRANKENSTEIN, and with good reason! Her story was adapted into a play shortly after it was first published, and has been adapted and retold nonstop ever since.
Horror author Claire Fitzpatrick joins us to talk about Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and what makes this story so timeless.
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Mary Shelley Month:  Why Frankenstein Still Matters

It's Mary Shelley Month, which requires us to revisit this classic Vulgar History episode about Mary Shelley: Goth Queen, Mom Friend. And honestly, it hits different now that we know more about her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft.
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The Wild Life of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein

In last week's episode, Mary Wollstonecraft decided to head over to Paris as the French Revolution was turning into The Terror, just for the vibes. This week, we learn what she did when she got there (and which of our faves she ran into!), and what happened next.
Trigger warning: discussion in this episode includes depression, suicidal ideation, and attempted suicide.
Next time: we get into the story of Wollstonecraft's daughter, Mary Shelley!!
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Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (part two)

Mary Shelley's influence can be felt in countless feminist body horror novels written in the past two hundred years. But how many of those books are about anatomical wax figures who come to life to KILL THE MEN WHO PREYED UPON THEM??
Allison Rushby's novel Slashed Beauties is about just that. We talk about the real (grotesque) history behind her novel, how Mary Shelley inspired her, and how she researched the lives of 18th-century sex workers. Plus: what's her next novel about??
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#293

Mary Shelley's Scandalous Sister, Claire Clairmont (Revisited)

#292

The Regency Era and Consent

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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, and America's 250th Anniversary

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Regency Era Cottagecore Lesbians: The Ladies of Llangollen

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Regency Era Heiresses and the History of Enslavement

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Anne Lister: Regency-Era Power Lesbian

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Jane Austen: The Life of a Regency Era Literary Icon

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Vulgar History: Regency Era trailer

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Mary Shelley Month: Lord Byron, The Original F***boi of Literature

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Mary Shelley Month: Why Frankenstein Still Matters

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The Wild Life of Mary Shelley, Author of Frankenstein

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Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (part two)

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Mary Shelley Month: Slashed Beauties, with Allison Rushby