She Speaks Volumes S1-E1: A Room of One’s Own
This is a re-vamp of the original episode
A Room of One’s Own written by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Originally published by Hogarth press. This edition published by Penguin Random House
Also available at Gutenberg: http://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/woolfv-aroomofonesown/woolfv-aroomofonesown-00-h.html
Excerpts read by: Fiona Thraille
Episode Glossary:
The Verneys: A prominent British family that left a legacy of letters and papers detailing life until 1693. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verney_family_of_Middle_Claydon
The Hutchinsons: I am not sure….
Cleopatra: Queen of the Ptolemaic Region: 51–30 BC - VW is referencing Shakespeare’s tragedy: Anthony and Cleopatra.
Lady MacBeth: From Shakespeare’s Macbeth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Macbeth
Rosalind: From Shakespeare’s As You Like It. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_(As_You_Like_It)
Clytemnestra: raped and forced into marriage by the tyrant Agamemnon, she avenged herself and the death of her eldest daughter Iphigenia by murdering him with the help of her lover Aegisthus.
Antigone: In Greek mythology Antigone is the daughter of Jocasta and her son Oedipus (Oedipus Rex), VW’s reference is most likely to the play and charchter in Sophocles play Antigone.
Phaedra: Cretan princess, half-sister of the Minotaur. Phaedra falls passionately in love with her stepson Hippolytus, but it is unrequited. Phaedra tells her husband Theseus that Hippolytus tried to rape her and Theseus calls in a favour from Posiedon who summons a bull from the sea that scares his horse and kills Hippolytus.
Cressida: refers most likely to Shakespeare’s Cressida, from the play Troilus and Cressida, which is based on the Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato, a telling of a Trojan legend originally by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cressida
Desdemona: From Shakespeare’s play Othello: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desdemona
The Duchess of Malfi: A play by John Webster premiered 1614, about the Italian aristocrat Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanna_d%27Aragona,_Duchess_of_Amalfi
Millamant: from the play The Way of the World by William Congreve, a restoration comedy that premiered in 1700. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_World
Clarissa: The main character in the novel ‘Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady’ by Samuel Richardson, named as one of the top 100 novels in the English language, published in 1748.
Becky Sharp: main character in Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery, published 1847. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Sharp
Anna Karenina: Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina
Emma Bovary: from Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary’
Madame de Guermantes: From Proust’s ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ also known as ‘In Search of Lost Time.
Joanna Bailie: 1762-1851, Baillie was a Scottish poet and playwright, widely popular and critically acclaimed in her lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Baillie#Reputation_and_legacy
Mary Russell Mitford: 1787 - 1855, successful poet, playwright and dramatist, and friend of Jane Austen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Russell_Mitford
Jane Austen: 1775 - 1817, one of the most enduringly popular writers in the English language, author of Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Lady Susan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen
Emily Brontë: 1818 - 1848 (pen name Ellis Bell) poet and author of Wuthering Heights.
Currer Bell (pen name of Charlotte Brontë) poet and author of Jane Eyre
George Sand (pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin), writer, feminist, and novelist. A list of her many works can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand#In_film
George Eliot: (pen name of Mary Ann Evans) Poet, novelist and journalist. A list of works can be found here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot but include Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and Mill on the Floss.
She Speaks Volumes is produced by Feral Culture lab
S1:E1 - Written and Directed by: Daniella Sorrentino
Excerpt read by: Fiona Thraille
Part 2 guest: Brooke Warner
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Green-Light Revolution TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0w4KgWyP8&feature=youtu.be
She Writes Press: https://shewritespress.com
Brooke Warner: http://brookewarner.com
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