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Victorian Scribblers

Victorian Scribblers is a podcast about the nineteenth-century writers time forgot, from Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the mother of detective fiction) to Marie Corelli (queer science-fiction writer extraor... Read more

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Hiatus Announcement

Hiatus Announcement

Link to our read-along details (the full text of this announcement is included there): http://victorianscribblers.com/qu... Read more

31 Mar 2020

5mins

Ranked #2

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S2:E22 – The Trollope Who Stole Christmas

S2:E22 – The Trollope Who Stole Christmas

E Hi Listeners! Welcome to Episode 13 – The Trollope Who Stole Christmas! If you’ve ever heard of a novelist by the name... Read more

25 Dec 2018

47mins

Ranked #3

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S2:E18 – MS Episode 7 – Visualizing the Victorians

S2:E18 – MS Episode 7 – Visualizing the Victorians

MS 7 – Visualizing the Victorians Hi all, welcome to the seventh episode of our Summer 2018 mini series, Victorian Adapt... Read more

31 Aug 2018

17mins

Ranked #4

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S1:E9 – The Scribblers Who Created Christmas (Part One)

S1:E9 – The Scribblers Who Created Christmas (Part One)

Episode 5 – The Scribblers who Created Christmas Charles Dickens is perhaps the most famous writer of the Victorian era,... Read more

25 Dec 2017

1hr 18mins

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S3:E4 – Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)

S3:E4 – Episode 15 – Mary Shelley (Part Three)

Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, rape, the death of c... Read more

27 Sep 2019

1hr 25mins

Ranked #6

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S1:E3 – Newspaper Novels

S1:E3 – Newspaper Novels

Scholars used to think that the 3 volume novel (or triple decker) was the most prominent form of novel publication in th... Read more

18 Oct 2017

18mins

Ranked #7

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S2:E10 – MS Episode 1 – What is Adaptation?

S2:E10 – MS Episode 1 – What is Adaptation?

  Summer 2018 Mini-Series: Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians   Mini-Series Episode 1 – What is Adaptation?... Read more

6 Jul 2018

29mins

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S3:E6 – Mary Shelley’s Writing

S3:E6 – Mary Shelley’s Writing

The texts read in this episode can be found at: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (University of Adelaide) History of a Six W... Read more

24 Oct 2019

1hr 10mins

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S1:E4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Part One)

S1:E4 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Part One)

DISCLAIMER: the audio quality on this episode is not great. I hit a sharp learning curve and didn’t anticipate the editi... Read more

18 Oct 2017

1hr 11mins

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S2:E1 – Season Two Intro: Fannies and Trollopes

S2:E1 – Season Two Intro: Fannies and Trollopes

Happy New Year, listeners!   Last March, I took the plunge and launched Victorian Scribblers. My first year podcasting h... Read more

26 Jan 2018

28mins

Ranked #11

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S2:E7 – Frances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part Two)

S2:E7 – Frances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part Two)

  In Part Two of episode 8, we finish reading Frances Milton Trollope’s “The Butt,” which you can read in full for free ... Read more

4 May 2018

1hr 8mins

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S1:E2 – Wilkie's Writing

S1:E2 – Wilkie's Writing

EPISODE 2 – WILKIE’s WRITING “Our words are giant when they do us an injury, and dwarves when they do us a service.” 2 p... Read more

18 Oct 2017

1hr 7mins

Ranked #13

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S2:E15 – MS Episode 5 – What are Neo-Victorian and Steampunk, Anyway?

S2:E15 – MS Episode 5 – What are Neo-Victorian and Steampunk, Anyway?

Hi everyone, welcome back to our ongoing summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians, this ... Read more

17 Aug 2018

34mins

Ranked #14

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S1:E6 – Braddon's Writing (Part One)

S1:E6 – Braddon's Writing (Part One)

Episode 4 Part One: Process and ‘Herself’ Ch. 1-2   6 August 1887, article titled “Miss Braddon at Home” in the Cardiff ... Read more

27 Oct 2017

50mins

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S3:E2 – Mary Shelley (Part One)

S3:E2 – Mary Shelley (Part One)

RESOURCES Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon. Frank... Read more

30 Aug 2019

41mins

Ranked #16

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S2:E3 – Frances Milton Trollope (Part Two)

S2:E3 – Frances Milton Trollope (Part Two)

In Part One, we left our intrepid adventurer aboard a ship and on the way to Frances Wright’s Nashoba Commune in Tenness... Read more

9 Mar 2018

1hr 4mins

Ranked #17

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S2:E17 – MS Episode 6 – Victorians on Television

S2:E17 – MS Episode 6 – Victorians on Television

Adaptations mentioned: Daniel Deronda on IMDB Daniel Deronda on the BBC’s website Middlemarch on IMDB North and South on... Read more

24 Aug 2018

23mins

Ranked #18

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S2:E4 – Frances Milton Trollope (Part Three)

S2:E4 – Frances Milton Trollope (Part Three)

… [Continued from Part Two] During this time, Fanny falls ill and, though she eventually recovers, her eyesight is signi... Read more

14 Mar 2018

33mins

Ranked #19

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S1:E5 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Part Two)

S1:E5 – Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Part Two)

1852: we know she started acting. Now, I mentioned this briefly in the Wilkie Collins bio episode, but to the Victorian ... Read more

18 Oct 2017

1hr 11mins

Ranked #20

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S2:E6 – Frances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part One) REVISED

S2:E6 – Frances Milton Trollope’s Fiction (Part One) REVISED

In this episode, we reconstruct Fanny’s writing process (to the best of our ability) and read some of her short fiction.... Read more

27 Apr 2018

1hr 25mins

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