Author Archives: Rabbit Hole Explorer

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Final-Bryher-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBryher, 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 maleContinue reading “The One-Woman Funding Committee- Ep. 48”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Finished-Heap-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadJane 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 ofContinue reading “Power Behind the Magazine – Ep.47”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Georgette-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadGeorgette 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 withContinue reading “The Sidelined Singer – Ep.46”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Final-Margaret-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhile 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 peopleContinue reading “The Broke Patron – Ep.45”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Noel-Finished-Audio-2.0.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA 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 tryContinue reading “A Merry Widow – Ep.44”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-Solita-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadShe 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 toContinue reading “Rebel Turned Perpetual Secretary – Ep.43”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Janet-Ready-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadGenêt – 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 AlongContinue reading “Letters from Paris – Ep.42”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Final-Olga-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOlga 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 fromContinue reading “Italianate Ambiguity – Ep.41”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Monnier-F-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadYou 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. SourcesContinue reading “Shakespeare Accomplice – Ep.40”

https://media.blubrry.com/parislesbospodcast/parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Sylvia-Audio-V1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadYou’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 toContinue reading “Godmother of Literary Paris – Ep.39”