Literary nerds rejoice! This week, we have another history/literature episode, looking at sex work in Victorian poetry with Emily Calleja.
We’re talking about how sex workers were portrayed, what that can tell us about women’s real-life frustrations, and how it impacted the suffrage movement.
Emily just finished her Master’s in Nineteenth Century Studies—Congratulations, Emily! 🎉🎉🎉
A symptom of a society that is failing to care for it's future has the predictable results. And I remember when younger, Rickets and Scabies being scare words from the old days with measles on their way out.
But a combination of disinterest from the neo-Victorians (yes Rees-Mogg, we see you) and hysteria over vaccinations will get many in the coming years.
This week we are mythbusting corsets with biological anthropologist Dr Rebecca Gibson — what they do to the body, why men wanted to ban them, what period dramas get wrong, and why they may actually be feminist!
The letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle opens a window onto the lives of two of the Victorian world’s most accomplished, perceptive, & unusual inhabitants