She Speaks Volumes

Perspectives on the Witch Trials

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes is created by Daniella Sorrentino

CREDITS:

Voice-Actors + Narrators

Margaret Alice Murray, excerpts from witchcraze read by Verna Sorrentino

Scottish Witches: Marnie Thompson, JP Wright, Susan Harden

Joan of Arc: @katsuky

Interviews with:

Yvonne Owens

Dr Liz Williams

LINKS TO PURCHASE or READ BOOKS REFERENCED: detailed bibliography below.

Witch Cults in Western Europe

Witchcraze

Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art

Miracles of Our Own Making

Research

BBC Bitesize. “Case Study: James vi and the North Berwick Witch Hunt.” Accessed May 29, 2023. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj77xbk/articles/zmr6hcw.

Dictionaries of the Scots Language. “Dictionary of the Scots Language,” n.d. https://dsl.ac.uk/.

King, James, G B Harrison, and James Carmichael. King James the First, Daemonologie (1597) : Newes from Scotland, Declaring the Damnable Life and Death of Doctor Fian, a Notable Sorcerer Who Was Burned at Edenbrough in Ianuary Last (1591). San Diego, Ca: Book Tree, 2002.

Llewellyn Barstow, Anne . Witchcraze : A New History of the European Witch Hunts. New York, N.Y.: Harperone, 1994.

Murray, Margaret Alice. The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, 1921.

Owens, Yvonne. Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art : The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien. London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

saint-joan-of-arc.com. “Joan of Arc: Trial of Condemnation Searchable Transcipt,” n.d. https://saint-joan-of-arc.com/trial-condemnation.htm.

Williams, Liz. MIRACLES of OUR OWN MAKING : A History of Paganism. S.L.: Reaktion Books, 2021.

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and female friendship

Feral Culture Lab — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes: A primer for a millennia of often neglected writings by female philosophers, artists, and scientists.

created by Daniella Sorrentino

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S2:E2: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and Female Friendship.

Excerpts from The Hearing Trumpet are ready by Verna Sorrentino

This episode is based on The NYRB edition of The Hearing Trumpet published in 2021.

The Hearing Trumpet was written in the 1950s, and was originally published in 1974.

Listen to the SSV episode on Carrington's Down Below

FROM WIKIPEDIA: Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011[1]) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s.[2] Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.[3][4] read more

Research Links:

Leonora Carrington's - Art work: https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonora-carrington
Museo Leonora Carrington: https://www.leonoracarringtonmuseo.org
Article about Carrington and Varo: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/leonora-carrington-7615/love-friendship-rivalry-surreal-friends

Books I used for research:

Learn More:

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Down Below: Leonora Carrington - surrealism + feminism

Feral Culture Lab — Fri, 20 May 2022 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes: Season 2 Episode 1.

Down Below: Leonora Carrington - surrealism + feminism

Down Below written by Leonora Carrington published by NYRB 2017 (originally published 1972).

Excerpts read by: Verna Sorrentino.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/down-below?variant=29716648135

Leonora Carrington was born in April 6, 1917 in Lancashire, England, and died May 25th, 2011 in Mexico City. She studied art in London, and in Italy. In 1937 Carrington moved to Paris, and was a central figure in surrealist circles. She lived in Sant Martin d’Ardeche with her lover Max Ernst before fleeing to Spain as the Nazi’s encroached on France. In Madrid she was involuntarily committed to an asylum. After her treatment she managed to evade being sent to a sanatorium in South Africa by her parents. She married Renato Leduc and moved to Mexico City, where she would live for most of the rest of her life. A complete biography is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#Mexico

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Rags. Petrol. Matches. Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas.

Feral Culture Lab — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0700

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She Speaks Volumes: The Primer for 500 years of feminist philosophy, history

Season 1 Episode 8: Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf.

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino for the Feral Culture Lab: feralculturelab.com , dsorrentino.com

Virginia Woolf is voiced by Fiona Thraille: https://thraille.weebly.com

In this episode we are listening to excerpts from the essay Three Guineas written by Virginia Woolf in 1938. Three Guineas is a satirical book length essay written as England is on the brink of World War 2. The essay is in response to a letter she has received asking her for a donation towards peace efforts, and posing the question, ‘how can women help prevent war?

For this episode I used:

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas published by Penguin Classics - April 2019 Introduction by: by Michèle Barrett

Listen to the She Speaks Volumes episode: A Room of One’s Own

I also Used the following sites as references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939

https://www.bl.uk/people/virginia-woolf

http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk

Credit to:

SFX:

freesound.org

00489 Aircraft Run 2 - Robinhood76

https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/62049/

O1777 machine gun - Robinhood76

https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/96376/#

Military-alarm - kizilsungur

https://freesound.org/people/KIZILSUNGUR/sounds/96973/#

Music:

https://www.soundstripe.com

Sweata Weatha - Dresden, The Flamingo

https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/10379

The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Emma Goldman

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:00:00 -0700

When the failure of modern dictatorship and authoritarian philosophies becomes more apparent and the realization of failure more general, Anarchism will be vindicated.

~ Emma Goldman

She Speaks Volumes: Season 1 Episode 7

Emma Goldman, The Most Dangerous Woman in America.

Episode created by: Daniela Sorrentino, for Feral Culture Lab

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Living My Life Volume 1 - written By Emma Goldman

Published by Dover Publications, New York, 1970.

Emma Goldman is voiced by: Halia Hirniak.

Emma Goldman was born June 27th 1869 in Kovno in the Russian Empire. She died May 14th 1940 in Toronto Ontario, Canada. In her almost 70 years she witnessed, often firsthand, World War 1, the early part of World War 2, the Russian Revolution, The Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of the American Trade Unions, the depression, and the rise and rise of capitalism. she fought for workers rights, wealth distribution long before it was a thing, campaigned for birth control and the rights of women. At heart she was an anarchist, and idealist and most surprisingly a romantic. Yet she was called the most dangerous woman in America...but dangerous for who?

For research and references I also used:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

https://jwa.org/womenofvalor/goldman

The interview with Ruth Kinna is the bonus episode. Her books can be found here:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/128925/ruth-kinna.html

And an essay here

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/professor-ruth-kinna-the-theory-and-practice-of-anarchism

Check out the Anarchist Library for tons of essays and publications on anarchy, including the works of Emma Goldman.

MUSIC:

Dresden, The Flamingo; An Old Fashioned Magic Show:

https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/12943

SFX

Inchadney: Northsea. https://freesound.org/s/587759/

Plantmonkey: Gulls on the isles of Sicily; https://freesound.org/s/377107/

Canardo55: Herring Gull 1: https://freesound.org/s/538016/

The Cage of Obscene Birds: Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Feral Culture Lab — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes: The Primer for 500 years of feminist philosophy, history

Season 1 Episode 6: In the Cage of Obscene Birds: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino for the Feral Culture Lab: feralculturelab.com , dsorrentino.com

Harriet Jacobs is voiced by Portia Cue, VoiceOnCue.com

To support the podcast please donate at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/FeralCulture

For this episode I used two editions:

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Penguin Books, London, Eng 2000

Jacobs Harriet, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, (Enlarged Edition), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, and London Eng. 2009

I also used the following web-pages as references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Jacobs

https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/before-and-after-civil-war

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_narrative

https://www.britannica.com/art/slave-narrative

Here is the link ton the slave narratives from the Federal Writers Project in the Library of Congress:

https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

BIO: Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery around 1813, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, is her auto-biography, her own account of her life in slavery, and the harrowing years, decade she spent on the run, after her escape.

“You may believe what I say; for I write only that whereof I know. I was twenty-one years in that cage of obscene birds. I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks.” Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

MUSIC:

Swing Low Sweet Chariot: written by Wallace Willis, c1865, performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/artists/563

Oh, Freedom: writer unknown. c1865 performed by Antioch Mass Choir, licensed via soundstripe. https://app.soundstripe.com/songs/13065

Sound Effects:

Rain on a Summer Day

"Vlatko Blažek Varaždin, Croatia e-mail: vlatkoblazek@gmail.com

http://www.freesound.org/people/VlatkoBlazek/"

Pendulum Clock: Janacp

https://freesound.org/people/janacp/sounds/253997/

night-montepio-frogs-crikets-and-night-birds : Globofonia

https://freesound.org/people/Globofonia/sounds/587720/

Vindication of the Rights of Woman: the foundation of modern feminism

Feral Culture Lab — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes, the primer for over 500 years of feminist philosophy, history, and writing is produced by the Feral Culture Lab

Written and created by Daniella Sorrentino.

Mary Wollstonecraft is voiced by Fiona Thraille

In this episode we are listening to excerpts from the book that would lay the foundation of western feminism, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, written by Mary Wollstonecraft, and originally published in 1792.

Episode extracts from Project Gutenberg edition

Research from the Penguin Classic edition.

Mary Wollstonecraft was born April 27, 1759 in Spitalfields, now part of London’s East End. Instability in the family’s finances, and her father’s drunken rages prompted her to seek employment outside of London as soon as she was able. She worked first as a ladies companion in Bath, and as governess in Ireland, she also briefly started her own school. Finding none of these careers suitable she returned to London to embark on a career as a writer. ‘The first of a new genus’, she would write in a letter to her sister.

A complete list of her works can be found in the bibliography on her wikipedia entry.

Music:

Mandoline Concerto in C, Vivaldo (1729) from the Internet Archive

La Marseillaise, (1792 ) Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, from Wikimedia Commons

Soundscape source credits:

"Rain on Windows, Interior, B.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

"Wind, Realistic, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

“Dry Thunder”, by JusKiddink of Freesound.org

She Speaks Volumes - Trailer

Feral Culture Lab — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 09:00:00 -0700

A brief introduction to the She Speaks Volumes podcast.

Learn more at: shespeaksvolumes.ca

Volume 2-Living My Life Emma Goldman

Feral Culture Lab — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 09:00:00 -0700

Thank for listening to She Speaks Volumes, a primer for 500 years of feminist writings.

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This episode is an excerpt from Emma Goldman's autobiography Living My Life - Vol 2.

Anarchist Emma Goldman was called the most dangerous woman in America, she emigrated from Russia at the age of 17, the Romanov's were still in power. By the time she was 20 she was an active member of the New York anarchists movement and was speaking at union and worker rallies. Through her life Goldman fought against injustices and for the cause of anarchy, through the union movements, conscription and birth control in the US, the rebuilding of a new Russia after the revolution, fighting against conscription and militarism leading up to World War 1. She was also an avid student and lecturer on modern theatre.

Read her books an essays for free at Project Gutenberg

and articles by and about Emma Goldman at The Anarchist Library

Read her biography on Wikipedia here.

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ANARCHY - what does it stand for?

Feral Culture Lab — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes - a primer for 500 years of feminist writing.

Feral Culture Lab

written and produced by Daniella Sorrentino

This Episode, #8 explores what anarchy is through an excerpt of Emma Goldman's essay 'Anarchy: What it Really Stands For - Anarchy and an interview with the author of several books on anarchy including The Government of No One, the Theory and Practice of Anarchism Ruth Kinna, professor of political philosophy at Loughborough University.

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism can and should be purchased at a local bookstore but you can read about it here.

Here is a list of anarchist resources:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/anarchism/

https://www.paperrevolution.org/library/

More Christine de Pizan-The Book of The City of Ladies

Feral Culture Lab — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes:

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino

Marilynn Desmond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University. She (co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn), Myth, Montage and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea. 2003, and is the author of "Christine de Pizan: gender, authorship and life-writing," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature 2008, p. 123-135. I will post a bibliography for her on my website. Show notes will be updated to reflect this.

Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore -

To comment email: hello@shespeaksvolumes.ca OR https://www.facebook.com/FeralCulturePodcasts

Visit the website for more information on Christine de Pizan and the authors in the series.:

www.shespeaksvolumes.ca

A Reluctant Nun; provocateur and feminist Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes, the primer for over 500 years of feminist history, and philosophy is produced by Feral Culture Lab - feralculturelab.com

Created by Daniella Sorrentino - dsorrentino.com

Excerpts in this episode are from Poems, Protest and a Dream, published in 1997 by Penguin Random House. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.

Sor Juana is voiced by Paola Poucel

Music: Madre la de los primores - written and composed by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Performed by the L.A. Camerata, directed by Marylin Winkle

You can watch a YouTube video of the performance here.

‘ Like in much of Europe Sor Juana’s career options would have been limited to wife, whore, or nun.’

In this episode we are listening to excerpts from a letter “Response to the Most Illustrious Poet Sor Fillotea’ written by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the 17th century Mexican poet, philosopher, playwright, composer, nun and feminist. Sor Juana was born just outside of Mexico City in 1648. A brilliant and opinionated nun, one who has powerful political allies was seen as an existential threat by the patriarchal Church. Sor Juana is particularly aware that being a woman is no small part of the repercussions from her Athenagoric letter. Throughout her letter she asserts that the inherent misogyny within the church is hypocritical, and misguided.

“considering the total antipathy I had toward matrimony, the convent was the least disproportionate and ( most honourable decision I could make” Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz - from Response to the Most Illustrious Poet Sor Fillotea

Dialogue on the Nature of Love

Feral Culture Lab — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700

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The text I used for Part 1 of episode 3 is:

Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tulia d'Aragona translated by Rinaldina Russel and Bruce Merry, published by The Chicago University Press as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series.

I used music from Youtube audio library: Yonder Hill and Dale by Aaron Kenny

Guests this episode:

Fabian Deuchert,

Jessica North O'Connell: Great Goddess Alive - Aboutgreatgoddessalive.com

Terry Van Roon

REVAMP Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, Tullia d'Aragona

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700

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Episode #3: Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tulia d’Aragona

Published by University of Chicago Press as part of The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/OVIEME.html

Edited and Translated by Rinaldina Russell, and Bruce Merry.

Music from Free Music Archive:

Lady in Waiting [Instrumental] by Kathleen Martin

Excerpts from Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart performed by MIT Symphony Orchestra Soprano: Emily Marvosh from the Album An Opera Evening.

Tullia d’Aragona read by Vita Wulff:

Benedetto Varchi rad by Tomaso Thellung: http://www.tomasothellung.blog/

Poet, philosopher, and Courtesan Tullia d’Aragona was born in Rome at the height of the Renaissance to Giulia Campana, herself a courtesan. This was a golden era for the courtesan that waned over Tullia’s life as the church extended its reach and influence over Italian states one by one.

Read more about Tullia d’Aragona here: http://www.projectcontinua.org/tullia-d-aragona/

The Dialogue on the Infinity of Love is one of a few surviving examples of Tullia d’Aragona’s work. The Dialogue as a literary form has a long history; the first examples date back to the third millennia BCE from the Mahabrata, and to Plato in the west. The dialogue is a literary form rendered by way of a conversation between two or more people. Plato’s The Symposium being the most well-known dialogue and perhaps the first to address the subject of love. A subject which was which was explored in numerous dialogues in the Renaissance period. Of all the dialogues we know of from the Mahabrata onwards, only the Dialogue on the Infinity of Love was written by a woman and explores a feminine view on the subject of love and desire.

Listen to the other podcasts in this series:

PT 2: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

Feral Culture Lab — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes:

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino

Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore -

To comment email: hello@shespeaksvolumes.ca OR https://www.facebook.com/FeralCulturePodcasts

Visit the website for more information on Christine de Pizan and the authors in the series.:

www.shespeaksvolumes.ca

PT 1: REVAMP: Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:00:00 -0700

She Speaks Volumes: a primer for 500 years of feminist history, and philosophy

Created by: Daniella Sorrentino. Feral Culture Lab - feralculturelab.com

Episode 2: The Book of the City of Ladies:

Written by Christine de Pizan - 1405

Excerpts read by: Leanne Woodward: https://www.leannenarrates.com

Two translations of The Book of the City of Ladies were used to create this episode:

The excerpt is from the Penguin 1999 edition, translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/352/35288/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies/9780141907581.html

My notes, and the blog posts were based on the translation by Earl Jeffrey Richards published by Persea Books in 1998

https://www.perseabooks.com/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

PLEASE: whenever possible support your local bricks and mortar bookstore

Christine de Pisan: Christine de Pisan, (born 1364, Venice [Italy]—died c. 1430), prolific and versatile French poet and author whose diverse writings include numerous poems of courtly love, a biography of Charles V of France, and several works championing women.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christine-de-Pisan

The British Library has a digitized copy of The Book of the City of Ladies, illuminated by Christine de Pizan. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-book-of-the-city-of-ladies

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A Room of One's Own part 2

Feral Culture Lab — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:00:00 -0700

A discussion about a Room of One's Own and exploring if women have achieved equality in writing and publishing with Brooke Warner, publisher at She Writes Press and author of Write on, Sisters!

SSV Re-Vamp: A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf V2

Feral Culture Lab — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:00:00 -0700

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

Here are links to Brooke's websites, and to her amazing TedX talk. If you haven't seen it watch it.

Green-Light Revolution TedX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a0w4KgWyP8&feature=youtu.be

She Writes Press: https://shewritespress.com

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