Show notes coming soon! Find the PDF of “The Happy Life” below. (I’m aware this PDF is not screen reader accessible and am working on remedying that!!)

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Reference to Mr. Mallock: possibly W. H. Mallock, author of Is Life Worth Living? (according to this advertisement).

Link to “The Star”: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/27365/27365-h/27365-h.htm#Page_35

TITLE OF EPISODE IN REFERENCE TO: 

“Beautiful Star of Bethlehem” performed by:

• Rhonda Vincent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGLS5BnLZc 
• The Judds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfhOgpDRxI

Judy Garland singing “The Star of the East” (written by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890): 

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Our theme music for this episode was “Deck the Halls,” performed by Michel Rondeau, available under a CC attribution 3.0 license.

Break / transition music for this episode: https://musopen.org/music/611-etudes-op-25/

Bed music used during short story: Podington Bear’s Dark Water (CC attribution 3.0): https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Fathomless_-_Ambient

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/illustration-from-the-star-by-h-g-wells

https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-G-Wells

Some context on the word “Hottentot”: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987 

RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure of Automatic Writing”: https://archive.org/stream/revelationsofspi00farriala/revelationsofspi00farriala_djvu.txt Joanna Turner’s …

RESOURCES: Branch article on Oscar Wilde’s trials: https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=andrew-elfenbein-on-the-trials-of-oscar-wilde-myths-and-realities Nick Birch’s website / blog: http://mariecorelli.org.uk/ Resource about one of Corelli’s ghostly appearances: https://www.leslieflint.com/the-cook-sisters-collection Article about Marie Corelli: https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/11/a-metaphysical-history-of-marie-corelli/ Robyn Hallim’s dissertation on Corelli: https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/handle/2123/521/adt-NU20030623.11115902whole.pdf;jsessionid=3DEEEDCF17AF0722BBA2A58AD54D1186?sequence=2 Book titled Revelations of a Spirit Medium which cites Corelli’s article, “Spiritualism: An Exposure …

Things we mentioned in this episode: The Victorian Data conference: https://data-caucus.herokuapp.com/ This Victorian authors / penguin height comparison: The Queen of Romania, a secret Victorian Scribbler? See details here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Wied and here https://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/queen-marie-romania-papers RESOURCES: Branch article about Wilde’s trial: link here Great resource for Corelli …

The texts read in this episode can be found at: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (University of Adelaide) History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (Gutenberg) The Mortal Immortal

Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, rape, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is …

Content Warning: This episode includes mentions and discussion of suicide, miscarriage, infidelity, the death of children, and the death of a spouse. It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month (https://www.nami.org/Get-Involved/Awareness-Events/Awareness-Messaging), and we just wanted to highlight that, if you or someone you know and love is struggling …

RESOURCES Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon. Frankenstein : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Johanna M. Smith Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing …

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In this episode, you’ll hear excerpts from presentations on the NAVSA panel in which I participated as well as MIDIs of two nineteenth-century songs! Thanks to Miranda Butler for bringing us together to organize the panel, Kate Nesbit and Shannon Draucker for their amazing papers …

MS 8 – Wrap-Up   –YouTube adaptations Middlemarch – Neo-Victorian series set at college. Dorothea is a bi STEM student who is documenting the lives of her friends. She eventually falls for a genderbent Ladislaw. Carmilla – Neo-Victorian. Four seasons and a movie! Quite different …

MS 7 – Visualizing the Victorians Hi all, welcome to the seventh episode of our Summer 2018 mini series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians. In this episode I’m going to talk about comics and graphic novels which either adapt Victorian stories or present original …

Adaptations mentioned: Daniel Deronda on IMDB Daniel Deronda on the BBC’s website Middlemarch on IMDB North and South on IMDB North and South on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (series) on IMDB War and Peace (series) on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (film) on IMDB …

Hi everyone, welcome back to our ongoing summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians, this is Courtney and I’m recording solo today. Over the course of the next thirty or so minutes, I’m going to sketch out the definitions of Neo-Victorian and Steampunk …

Dr. Wager and I continue our conversation about Victorian Art / Art Adaptations. Things we mentioned: Poison Wallpaper William Morris Archive William Morris’s News From Nowhere Thomas Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller’s Slow Print Jennifer Green-Lewis’s Framing the Victorians Daniel Novak’s Realism, Photography, and Nineteenth-Century …

Hi everyone, welcome to episode four of our summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians! Today we’re going to chat about art adaptations, though I have a feeling I’m going rogue by using that term in regard to art at all. Here to …

IMPORTANT NOTE: We experienced some technical difficulties in recording this episode and at times Ben’s audio is missing or corrupted. I (Eleanor) have done my best to clean this up but please bear with us on this! Welcome to the third episode of our 2018 …

Around the World in the Medieval Period 525 – Anno Domini calendar invented 529-34 – Code of Justinian issued 590 – Gregory the Great becomes pope 618 – the Tang Dynasty begins in China (in one folklore tradition, this is the dynasty in which Mulan …

Introduction: Welcome to the second episode of our 2018 mini-series, “Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians”! Today, we’re going to talk about Victorian Medievalism, focusing on poetry. As mentioned in the first episode of the mini-series, the Victorians adapted all sorts of things, from Greek …

  Summer 2018 Mini-Series: Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians   Mini-Series Episode 1 – What is Adaptation?   The sun is shining, the skies are blue, it’s warm and everybody wants to be outside. It’s summertime, and what better opportunity to talk about…adaptations? [Cricket …

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