37. Elizabeth Stoddard — The Morgesons with Rachel Vorona Cote

Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac, and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard’s brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.

Discussed in this episode

The Morgesons by Elizabeth Stoddard

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote

 The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

James Russell Lowe

Nathanial Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry James

George Eliot

Bull Run

Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard

Temple House by Elizabeth Stoddard

Ramona Quimby

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot

“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti 

 Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco on Lost Ladies of Lit

St. Cecilia

“Tell It Slant” in VQR by Rachel Vorona Cote

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