Victorian Legacies

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Dominique Gracia, who had worked on repetitions and revisions, and adaptation theory. We discuss the influence of Sherlock Holmes on modern TV detectives in series such as Sherlock and Vienna Blood. We observe the ways in which we see works through adaptations, and how neo-Victorian works may influence how we think or perceive the nineteenth century. We also discuss hidden stories about Victorian female detectives, and how Holmes' legacy persists today.About my guest: Dominique is an independent scholar who’s currently Chief of Staff for the Director of UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Her research focuses on repetitions and revisions, from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s double-works to the pot-boiling of popular fiction. Her most recent publications focus on early female detectives and Sherlock Holmes’ influence on modern TV detectives, and she is currently writing a collection of Neo-Victorian short stories featuring a Welsh female detective in East London.For more information on Dominique's work, check out the details below:https://exeter.academia.edu/DominiqueGraciaCheck out Dominique's suggestions:Kim Newman - Professor Moriaty: The Hound of the D'UrbervillesAnthony Horowitz - MoriartyNev March - Murder in Old Bombay: A MysteryJ.C. Briggs - The Murder of Patience BrookeHeather Redmond - A Dickens of a Crime SeriesEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Deborah Siddoway, who researches into how the nineteenth century English novel was both informed by and influenced the path of divorce law reform in England. We discuss how all her authors had complex relationships with marriage, and how this is reflected in their works. We also discuss how the no-fault divorce was ended at the time of recording, and how this changes a lot of things for people seeking divorces in England. We discuss her PhD progress, and also her podcast, The Story of Divorce, which tells the story to the background of divorce law in England, and explains the impetus behind the Divorce Act of 1857 finally being passed, making divorce more accessible in England with the establishment of the Divorce Court in London.About my guest: Deborah graduated with a BA and an LLB from Sydney University, and then worked as a legal researcher for the Honourable Justice Beazley of the Court of Appeal of New South Wales, before beginning her career as a dual-qualified solicitor in leading legal firms in both Sydney and London. She was awarded an MA by research in Dickens Studies with the University of Buckingham for her paper entitled The Twisting of the Ring: Dickens, Divorce and the Evolution of his Views on Marriage. She was awarded the 2019 Partlow Prize for her paper ‘Misfortnet Marriages’: Discussing Divorce in Household Words. She commenced her PhD part-time in 2020, where her research examines how the nineteenth century English novel was both informed by and influenced the path of divorce law reform in England, with a focus on the works of authors such as Mary Shelley, the Brontë sisters, Caroline Norton, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins in the context of a specific consideration of the social and legal imperatives leading to the enactment of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, one of the most comprehensive and significant reforms of the archaic system governing the marital relationship of the era. She is a postgraduate representative on the advisory board for the Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies. Her podcast series, The Story of Divorce, tells the stories of the bigamists, the bastards, the feminists, and the fornicators that helped give us the law of divorce that exists in England today.For more information on Deborah's work, check out the details below:Podcast (The Story of Divorce): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-story-of-divorce/id1586957709Gov.uk link on No Fault Divorce: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/blame-game-ends-as-no-fault-divorce-comes-into-forceCheck out Deborah's suggestions:Assassin's Creed: SyndicateKathryn Hughes: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of DecorumHallie Rubenhold: The FiveEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Anna Gasperini, where we discuss her work on children's literature and child nutrition. We discuss how food in children's literature sublimates and represents a lot of things, including 'taboo' subjects. Children's literature was previously seen as unsophisticated in the academy (like fantasy), which segues into a brief chat about Terry Pratchett's Discworld! We then continue to consider how food was linked to the acceptable and unacceptable body and how that notion is constructed in society, reinforced or challenged in children's literature. The greedy child and the mal/nourished child, and how these both are seen as unacceptable within 19th century.Trigger warning for some dark children's literature.About my guest: Dr Anna Gasperini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. She has just completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research project on English and Italian nineteenth-century children’s literature and the history of child nutrition. Her most recent article on the topic, “The ‘Gluttonous Child’ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysis”, has been published OA in the Journal of Victorian Culture. She is the author of Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine, and Anatomy - The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).For more information on Anna's work, check out the details below:Twitter: @AnnaGDreadfulLatest Articles (Full links for these are open access and will be available on our FB page!):“Little Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature in Italian and English”. Modern Languages Open, (1), 2022, p.2. “The ‘Gluttonous Child’ Narrative in Italy and Britain: A Transnational Analysis”. Journal of Victorian Culture, 2022, “‘I know I'm fatter’: hunger and bodily awareness in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden”. Rhesis – International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature. Issue 11.2, 2020. Check out Anna's suggestions:Terry Pratchett - DodgerChristina Rossetti - Speaking LikenessesHugh Cunningham - The Invention of Childhood Sarah Wise - The Italian BoyEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Michelle Ravenscroft, who has recently co-edited the third volume of the popular Talking Bodies series. We chat about our shared experience at Talking Bodies and how Michelle's MA thesis on identity formation in adolescents in the long 19th century literature was turned into a chapter. We also discuss her foundational stages of the PhD project she is working on, on the importance of the Portico Library in Manchester, through readings of The Manchester Man. We also share our love of interdisciplinarity as we debate why the nineteenth century continues to influence and fascinate society today.About my guest: Michelle Ravenscroft is an educational consultant and a second year part-time PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research proposes to interrogate the importance of the Portico Library, Manchester, and the significance of Northern identity and place in the nineteenth-century text The Manchester Man. In her spare-time she enjoys editing book collections, and recently finished co-editing Talking Bodies III for University of Chester Press.For more information on Michelle's work, check out the details below:PGR/ECR Long 19th Century Twitter: @l19thchttps://long19century.wordpress.comTalking Bodies III - https://storefront.chester.ac.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_14&products_id=1067Check out Michelle's suggestions:Isabella Banks - The Manchester Man Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Michelle Reynolds, who researches into representations of the New Woman in fin de siècle illustration. We discuss how the New Woman was featured in art, specifically in illustration. We observe how fairy tales writers like Evelyn Sharp used these to push forward ideas about feminism, reflecting what was in New Woman fiction but aiming these ideas at children. We consider how such tales explored gender identity and dress, coinciding with how the New Woman's dress was seen as a threat to society (alongside demasculinised men and the dandy figure)About my guest: Michelle Reynolds is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. Her thesis looks at the relationship between the New Woman’s emergence and the professionalism of women illustrators at the British fin de siècle as well as the New Woman’s visual representation and how women illustrators contributed to this representation. More broadly, her research interests include art and literature of the long nineteenth century, women artists, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, and fashion. She is currently a Postgraduate Representative for the University of Exeter’s Centre for Victorian Studies and a Board Member for the journal Romance, Revolution and Reform based at the University of Southampton. Michelle also has an upcoming chapter in the Women in Power collection (edited by Dr Fern Riddell, Dr Emma Butcher, and Dr Bob Nicholson). Michelle's chapter will be in Volume 1: "Bodies: Female Agency, Identity and Sex in the 19th Century". This is due to be published by Bloomsbury Academic in early 2023!For more information on Michelle's work, check out the details below:https://centreforvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/arthistory/staff/reynolds/Check out Michelle's suggestions:The Colour Room - movie about Clarice Cliff's lifeThe Electrical Life of Louis Wain - movie about Louis Wain's lifeA Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba BrayThe Story of an African Farm - Olive SchreinerThe Romance of a Shop - Amy LevyEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Clare Stainthorp, who researches into nineteenth-century atheist, secular and agnostic movements, and their periodical culture. We discuss how pamphlets and periodical culture helped not only to provide a space in which like-minded individuals could discuss freethought ideas, but enabled them to form a community and organise events. We discuss notable individuals such as Constance Naden, and also talk about the upcoming freehtought conference. About my guest: Dr Clare Stainthorp is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. She is primarily working on a new project about nineteenth-century atheist, secular, and agnostic movements and their periodicals. Her first book (which came out in 2019) was on the Victorian poet, atheist philosopher, and scientist Constance Naden, about whom she has also published in a range of other academic venues. Clare has co-edited a volume of primary sources titled ‘Disbelief and New Beliefs’ for a Routledge Historical Resource on Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Culture, which came out in 2020. Other strands of her current research include nineteenth-century esotericism and the works of George Egerton, and freethought writing for children; more broadly, she is interested in Victorian women's poetry, the dialogue as a literary form, and interdisciplinarity in nineteenth-century BritainFor more information on Clare's work, check out the details below:https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/stainthorpc.htmlFor details on the Freethought in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Perspectives conference: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/events/freethought/Check out Clare's suggestions:George Egerton - Keynotes (can be freely available via Archives.org)Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Laura Demaude, who is currently finishing her MA dissertation on gaslighting and the Gothic. We discuss how gaslighting is represented in Victorian and Neo-Victorian texts written by female authors (such as Bronte's Jane Eyre). We also note how physical gaslighting was used to influence this effect, especially in the film Gaslight. Our discussion also focuses on the importance of discussing literary representations of gaslighting, especially in the light of the #metoo movement.About my guest: Laura is an MA research student at the University of Lincoln, focusing on how gaslighting and physical lighting work together to oppress women and ‘make’ them into freaks in Gothic literature. She is fascinated by crowd psychology and the ways in which literature can, and does, influence the way we think, as well as in how these influences include and precede the Victorian era.For more information on Laura's work, check out the details below:Twitter: @lattepoweredEmail: ldemaude@lincoln.ac.ukCheck out Laura's suggestions:Sarah Waters' worksLaura Purcell - The Silent CompanionsThe Alienist (TV series) Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Duncan McNulty, founder and provost of the Bartitsu and Antagonistics Forum (BAF) . We discuss how Bartitsu was founded by Barton Wright in the 19th century, how it is presented now within the BAF and other organisations. We consider how the 19th century is still relevant, within pursuits like Bartistu and within steampunk. We discuss the nostalgic element, and how English ideas of colonialism and importance is so ingrained in the English consciousness now. We also reminisce about Duncan's time-travelling wedding! About my guest: Duncan currently runs the Bartitsu & Antagonsitics Forum as well as leading the instruction at the weekly classes. He has the title Provost to denote organisational responsibilities rather than qualifications, he has always claimed to be a first among equals rather than a traditional instructor. Coordinating the efforts of the scholars so that the study group as a whole can continue to learn and advance. Whilst Duncan trained in sports fencing and archery during childhood and through University, his unarmed martial studies began in 2001. Training in Lau Gar Kung Fu and Kick-boxing in Dundee before moving to Newcastle and switching to Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Qi Gong. Believing that Europe’s own martial history was being overlooked he decided to leave Eastern martial arts; turning instead to study Italian Rapier and English infantry sabre.During a weekend symposium Duncan got his first taste of Bartitsu and became hooked. Reading all he could get his hands on and getting anyone to who was willing and able to teach him, he developed a solid grounding in the martial art. In 2012 he gathered a group of like minded individuals together to set up a Bartitsu study group and so the Bartitsu & Antagonistics Forum was born.For more information on Duncan's work with the BAF, check out the links below:About Bartitsu - https://bartitsu.wordpress.com/about-bartitsu/ About Angatonistics - https://bartitsu.wordpress.com/antagonistics/ About Duncan - https://bartitsu.wordpress.com/provost-duncan-mcnulty/The Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BartitsuAntagonisticsForumCheck out Duncan's suggestions:Robert Louis Stevenson - Curious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Professor Yukio Tani - The Art of Ju-Jitsu Alfred Hutton - The Sword and the Centuries or Old Sword Days and Old Sword WaysFranz Anton Mesmer - The Discovery of Animal MagnetismEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Laure Nermel, who is finishing her PhD on Elizabeth Siddal,. We discuss how the Pre-Raphaelites are portrayed in Neo-Victorian fiction (novels, but also TV shows and plays), especially the women who were connected to the movement. We discuss the value of Siddal's work in her own right (not just as a model but as an artist and writer herself).About my guest: After a B.A in English literature at the Sorbonne, Laure went to Cape Town for a study exchange programme as a French tutor. Her Master’s dissertation focussed on Victorian visual arts, which enabled her to publish an article in the Journal des Arts about fairy painting. She completed her education in Museum Studies at the University of Westminster, by participating in several projects at the Musée d’Orsay, the V&A, Tate and the Museum of London. She is now a licensed tour guide specialised in 19th century culture, museum displays and gender issues. Her PhD is on the creative agency of Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal at Lille University. In 2021, she contributed to the writing of the book Pre-Raphaelite Sisters (Peter Lang) and to the issue of the online journal GLAD! dedicated to networks and communities of women artists.Check out Laure's suggestions:Elizabeth Siddal's poetry (2018 edition has 15 full poems, fragments and essays)Elizabeth Siddal - the playJoanne Harris - Sleep, Pale SisterEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Nat Reeve, who is not only keeping busy with a PhD on Elizabeth Siddal, but is a Neo-Victorian novelist! We talk about their debut novel Nettleblack, the first of two novels with Cipher Press. Both books follow the adventures of fictional queer Victorians in an eccentric rural setting. We discuss how the novels came about, and the importance of having queer voices represented in Neo-Victorian works (and supported by queer friendly publishers)About my guest: Nat Reeve is a novelist and PhD candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London, queer reading the unruly landscapes, medieval objects and spectral beings in Elizabeth Siddal’s art and poetry. Their debut novel Nettleblack – a queer neo-Victorian adventure following a runaway heiress and a chaotic group of detectives – will be published by Cipher Press this June, with its sequel following in 2023. They have forthcoming essays in the journal Word & Image and the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters edited collection about Elizabeth Siddal’s queering of medieval iconography.. For more information on Nat's work, check out the links and details below:Nettleblack: https://www.cipherpress.co.uk/shop/nettleblackCheck out Nat's suggestions:Mikchelle Paver - WakenhyrstAmy Dillwyn's works (especially The Rebecca Rioter, Jill, and The Burglary)Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

Episode 16 - Dr Nicole C Dittmer and Sophie Raine - Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic In this episode I'm joined by Nicole and Sophie, who have a forthcoming collection called Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic; or, Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror. We chat about how their individual interests in the Gothic emerged, how they came to work together on their collection, and some tidbits about what we'll read! They also provide fantastic examples of things to watch or read, both modern and 19th century. We also chat about what they think about the enduring fascination with the 19th century.

In this episode I'm joined by Dr Éadaoin Agnew, where we discuss her research into Victorian writers of colour (particularly within India, featuring writers who published in English). We discuss the need for decolonising the curriculum in all areas of the academy, how literary studies is still Western-centric, and how institutional barriers like educational policy problematise efforts to address colonial histories.About my guest: Éadaoin is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for English Literature at Kingston University. She specialises in the Victorian period, and has a particular interest in the literature of the British empire. In both her teaching and research, she assumes a transnational and global approach to the nineteenth-century, although my research focuses largely on the Indian subcontinent. She has produced a scholarly edition of two early nineteenth-century travel texts and is currently working on transnational anti-colonial discourses in fin-de-siècle India. She is also developing a pedagogical project to decolonise the Victorians., the link to the survey is below (Victorian Diversities Research Network) For more information on Éadaoin's work, check out the links and details below:https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-eacuteadaoin-agnew-580/surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8JZCK25 - survey for the Victorian Diversities Research NetworkTwitter: @EadaoinAgnewCheck out Éadaoin's suggestions:Swami Vivekananda - Raja YogaEpisode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

Episode 14 - Dr Oindrila Ghosh - Thomas HardyIn this episode I'm joined by Dr Oindrila Ghosh where we discuss her extensive research on the works of Thomas Hardy. We discuss how her interest in literature began in her education in India, from high school into PhD and beyond. Particularly, we talk about how broadening the academic field to "non-Western" countries is particularly useful in Victorian Studies, and how her experience as an Indian academic has helped her to consider new ways of reading Hardy's work.About my guest: Oindrila is currently Associate Professor, Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University. Her doctoral thesis, awarded by Jadavpur University, was on the Treatment of Motherhood in the Shorter Fiction of Thomas Hardy. She has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust, UK, Short Research Grant twice (2009, 2019), for Pre and Post Doctoral Research respectively. She had been invited twice to Dorchester as Speaker and Session-Chair by the Thomas Hardy Society, UK, at their Biennial Hardy Conferences in 2014 and 2016. She has also been the recipient of the prestigious Frank Pinion Award in 2014 given by the Hardy Society. She was an invited as Speaker on ‘Hardy’s Unpublished Correspondences in the Dorset County Museum’ at the Arts and Humanities Research Council sponsored (AHRC) Workshop on ‘Institutions of Literature’ at the University of York, UK, in December, 2017. She was a Post Doctoral UGC Associate at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in 2016, 2018 and 2019. Apart from a number of notable, and often-cited, essays on Hardy in International journals, she has three edited volumes to her credit: Protean Images: A Study of Womanhood in Victorian Society and Literature (2017) and An Enigma Called Emily: Reassessing Emily Bronte at 200 (2019) and Visitation, Deception and Contestation: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction (2021). She has just been awarded a fellowship at the University of Surrey for 2022-2023. For more information on Oindrila's work, check out the links and details below:https://dhwu.academia.edu/oindrilaghoshCheck out Oindrila's latest publication:Vision, Contestation and Deception Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction)Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Hollie Geary-Jones, where we discuss her PhD project on sex work in 19th century France and England - the differences and similarities in how these people were treated and how they pursued sex work. In particular, we discuss how Hollie's work examines dress, infection (and how sex workers were linked to public health and disease), and performance.TRIGGER WARNING - Discussion of sex work and treatment of sex workersAbout my guest: Hollie Geary-Jones is a PhD candidate and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Chester. Her research is titled: ‘The Nineteenth-Century Sex Worker in Fact and Fiction: Infectious Performance and Dressing the Self’. Her interdisciplinary thesis examines the extent in which French and English sex workers were able to mislead society through clothing, body, and behaviour. Today we’ll be discussing her research and interests. For more information on Hollie's work, check out the links and details below:https://www1.chester.ac.uk/english/research/postgraduate-research-english-students/hollie-geary-jonesTwitter:@HollieGJ1Check out Hollie's recommended sources, which she mentioned in our episode:Any works by Emile Zola - particularly Nana, The Kill, The Ladies' Paradise, GerminalDr Kate Lister - A Curious History of Sex Work Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com

In this episode I'm joined by Chris Woodyard, where we discuss how people in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries dealt with death. How death was depicted and discussed in the press (including crude jokes), the issues surrounding funeral costs and the idea of a respectable funeral. We also discuss how mourning crepe was used for political protest and criminal disguise. We talk about how some funeral practices persist to this day - not all for the better.CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of death, suicide, child deathAbout my guest: Chris Woodyard is an Ohio writer and historian. She took her undergraduate degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from The Ohio State University, where her emphasis was on art history. She is the author of The Victorian Book of the Dead, a book on the popular and material culture of Victorian mourning and death, as well as three volumes of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories. She has given presentations at the Costume Society of America on shroud-makers, Victorian mourning as criminal disguise, and mourning crape as a symbol of protest. She is a member of the Costume Society of America, The Association of Dress Historians, and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Her research interests center on the ephemera of dress, mourning material culture, mortuary practices, death omens, and ghosts. She is at work on the forthcoming A is for Arsenic: A Little Book of Victorian Death. For more information on Chris' work, check out the links and details below:Blog: https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/Facebook: The Victorian Book of the DeadTwitter: @hauntedohiobookPodcast: Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast (available on Apple, Podchaser)Episode Credits:Episode Writer, Editor and Producer: Emma CatanMusic: Burning Steaks (by Stationary Sign) - obtained via EpidemicSoundCheck us out at the following social media pages and websites!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victorianlegaciespodcastTwitter: @victorianlegac1Instagram: @victorianlegaciespodcastWebsite: https://emmacatan.wordpress.com/victorian-legacies-podcast/Email: victorianlegacies@gmail.com