New episodes beginning Feb 7. This episode originally aired in June 2021. 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 StoddardToo Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)James Russell LoweNathanial HawthorneHerman MelvilleEdgar Allan PoeHenry JamesGeorge EliotBull RunTwo Men by Elizabeth StoddardTemple House by Elizabeth StoddardRamona QuimbyJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteDorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti  Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteThe Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco on Lost Ladies of LitSt. Cecilia“Tell It Slant” in VQR by Rachel Vorona CoteFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast