118. The Woman of Colour: A Tale with Leigh-Michil George
The Woman of Colour: A Tale, Broadview Press edition
Published anonymously six years prior to Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—yet largely ignored for two centuries—the Regency-era epistolary novel The Woman of Colour: A Tale is the only one of its kind to feature a racially-conscious Black heroine at its center. Dr. Leigh-Michil George, a lecturer in the English Department at Geffen Academy at UCLA, joins us to discuss the novel and its historical importance as well as its influence on Regency-era television adaptations of Sanditon and Bridgerton.
Discussed in this episode:
The Woman of Colour: A Tale by Anonymous (Broadview Press)
Sanditon (PBS)
Bridgerton (Netflix)
Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
“Black People in Britain During the Regency” (National Portrait Gallery)