This week, we celebrate Spinster September by discussing spinster lit with special guest Nora. We chat about spinster tropes and stereotypes, ways in which the term is evolving, and dig into why these women appeal to so many of us. And, of course, we each share some of our favorite examples from literature.
Shownotes
Books
South Riding, by Winifred Holtby
The Rector’s Daughter, by F.M. Mayor
Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym
The Son, by Philipp Meyer
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz
The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
Providence, by Anita Brookner
A Start in Life, by Anita Brookner *I said Look at Me in the episode, but A Start in Life is the novel I was referring to*
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore
Whereabouts, by Jhumpa Lahiri
Lolly Willowes, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
Fair Play, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal
Journal of a Solitude, by May Sarton
The Magnificent Spinster, by May Sarton
At Seventy, by May Sarton
At Eighty-Two, by May Sarton
After the Stroke, by May Sarton
Plant Dreaming Deep, by May Sarton
The Dead, by James Joyce
Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Cassandra at the Wedding, by Dorothy Baker
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