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Paris Lesbos is a monthly podcast of less known figures in history, mostly spanning from La Belle Epoque Paris to the Cold War Era.
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Once a known Russian poet censored under the Soviets, Sophia Parnok is best remembered for one affair with another Russian poet, and not for the following: dying from a tumultuous other love affair, writing librettos, or even her own poetry. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Tsvetaeva by Viktoria Schweitzer Sophia Parnok: The Life and WorkContinue reading "Russia’s Sappho – Ep.58"
You’d think we wouldn’t find a way to detour through the Russian Revolution and find a connection to Natalie Barney in the same episode, but you’d be wrong. In the life of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, we do just that amid a background of economic ups and downs and the question of ‘do I giveContinue reading "From Russia to Paris and Back – Ep.57"
Lucie Delarue Mardrus once inspired a perfume mixed just for her, while a millionaire had a fortune’s worth of rose essence dumped in the wake of her ship one time she left port. Despite touring, lecturing, and meeting royalty, she is best known today for one line: “In the smell of an apple I heldContinue reading "The Forgotten Poet – Ep.56"
Isadora Duncan, often called the “mother of modern dance”, was known for taking inspiration from ancient Greece, scandalizing the US and Europe, and ending in a tragic accident eerily similar to that of her children. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth My Life by Isadora Duncan Wild Heart: AContinue reading "Mother of Modern Dance – Ep.55"
Famous rivalries are not a new phenomenon. At the end of the 19th century, Eleonora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt graced the world stage, and according to critics, theatrically dueled over it. While similar, their acting styles and their stories differed, though some rumors have dogged both their biographies. Come find out why. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read AlongContinue reading "The Italian Bernhardt – Ep.54"
What do you think happens when a woman ambulance driver returns from the Great War only to find herself stuck on a diary farm? Be honest, you didn’t expect her to start a British fascist organization, but that’s what Rotha Lintorn-Orman ended up doing. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s FascistContinue reading "Took the Uniform Too Far – Ep.53"
Mary Sophia Allen is known as a suffragette turned pioneer policewoman in the UK, but she swerved onto a detour unlike many of her compatriots from the fight for women’s right to vote. Concerned with communism, nudity, and a narrowed focus on a subset of victims of human trafficking, she became a fascist in spiteContinue reading "The Tip of the Fashy Lesbian Iceberg -Ep. 52"
Radclyffe Hall is best remembered for The Well of Loneliness and the obscenity trials it spawned. This was in addition to supporting same-sex marriage despite hypocrisy. Yet, it could be argued that this all nearly didn’t come to pass until an older woman got a philandering heiress to quit hunting and put pen to paper.Continue reading "The Sapphic Apologist – Ep. 51"
Introvert scandal, exotic menageries as jewelry, costumes that put Lady Gaga to shame, and a resemblance to Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven’s antics, Luisa Casati had them all. Born an heiress and destined for a boring life as the wife of an Italian noble who loved hunting more than her, Luisa created a life that wouldContinue reading "Imagine if She had Instagram – Ep.50"
So, you’re wondering how HD got that moniker? And no, we’re not talking about high definition television. HD, also known as Hilda Doolittle, was an Imagist poet and novelist. She’s known more in connection to other writers like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and for an unfortunate kink incident involving early psychologist Havelock Ellis.Continue reading "The Goddess of Imagism – Ep.49"
Bryher, whose real name was Annie Winifred Ellerman, was known in her lifetime for her historical novels after World War II. Today, many know her in relation to the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) for saving her from Spanish Flu through to their collaboration in POOL and marrying H.D.’s male lovers for the polycule. Sources (Used/Consulted/ReadContinue reading "The One-Woman Funding Committee- Ep. 48"
Jane Heap is most remembered for being the one-time partner of Margaret Anderson, founder of the magazine the Little Review. However, she didn’t spring forth in Chicago fully formed like Athena from Zeus’ head. She did, in fact, have a life before and after Margaret, who she sort of shared custody of Margaret’s nephews with.Continue reading "Power Behind the Magazine – Ep.47"
Georgette Leblanc is mainly known as the estranged “wife” of the Belgian poet Maurice Maeterlinck, but our audience will remember her as Margaret Anderson’s lover and the woman whose singing made Janet Flanner want to throw herself into the Seine. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck by Georgette Leblanc Four LivesContinue reading "The Sidelined Singer – Ep.46"
While a writer herself, Margaret Anderson stubbornly refused the label, even from her friends, just as she stubbornly refused to ever admit she might be wrong. However, she did write numerous editorials for the Little Review, so that should ring a bell more than her ability to convince people to give her what she wantedContinue reading "The Broke Patron – Ep.45"
A side character in the podcast’s universe, Noel Murphy is better known for being one of Janet Flanner’s girlfriends rather than her work during WWII. Its probably due to a life of just chilling while dealing with her girlfriend’s other girlfriend dragging her into conversations with mystics who try to guess her bowel movements justContinue reading "A Merry Widow – Ep.44"
She escaped her restrictive childhood home and gate kept inheritance by eloping to the Philippines and escaped the Philippines’ marriage by fleeing out a window in the dead of night. Rather than through her own writing, you probably have heard of today’s lady in passing, mostly in relation to Janet or perhaps in relation toContinue reading "Rebel Turned Perpetual Secretary – Ep.43"
Genêt – the pen name of the famous New Yorker’s Letter from Paris. It’s Janet Flanner’s best work, but a fifty year work history is not what she wanted to be remembered for. She probably didn’t want to be remembered for her complicated love life either. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Genêt: A Biography ofContinue reading "Letters from Paris – Ep.42"
Olga de Meyer: a woman of maddening ambiguity. We hear of her as artist’s muse, fencer, writer, possible illegitimate child of King Edward VII, and drug addict chasing her youth to the grave. We hear stories of her from others’ lips, but do we have anything of her from her own? Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along theContinue reading "Italianate Ambiguity – Ep.41"
You may have heard of her in connection to Sylvia Beach last episode. Yes, this time it’s Adrienne Monnier, the French bookstore owner across the street from Shakespeare and Company. We dive into the French side of the scene and the other side of the Beach-Monnier-Freund love triangle. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) The VeryContinue reading "Shakespeare Accomplice – Ep.40"
You’ve probably heard the name Sylvia Beach in sentences about Hemingway, Joyce, and other famous men. You’ve probably even heard of her in publishing Ulysses. You may not have heard of her blow up with Joyce over her publishing rights during a piracy scandal or of her relationship to fellow lending bookshop owner Adrienne Monnier.Continue reading "Godmother of Literary Paris – Ep.39"
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