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 ‘

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!

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

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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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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 - 

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

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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.

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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

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

Read more about Sor Juana

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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