Author Archives: Rabbit Hole Explorer

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Woolf-1-real-finished-audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadVirginia Woolf, most famous woman of this podcast’s world. She’s considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century writers. In fact, even if you don’t know anyone else from this podcast, you’re guaranteed to know of this woman. Her writing is studied at university level, and her life hasContinue reading “Woolf of Writing Part 1 – Ep.27”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Vita-Audio-Episdeo.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadVita Sackville-West is best known today for her love affair with fellow writer Virginia Woolf. However, in their day, it was Vita who was the more popular and well known writer, and not because of her scandalous affair with Violet Trefusis. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Behind the Mask:Continue reading “The Real Life Orlando – Ep.26”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Violet-Episode-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadViolet Trefusis was a famously passionate writerly footnote in the love affair of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West courtesy of the character of Sasha in Woolf’s Orlando, but who exactly was the woman behind the portrait, the woman who famously said, “Across my life only one word will beContinue reading “A Not Shrinking Violet – Ep.25”

Winnaretta Singer funded a wide range of causes, notably a musical salon where her protégés included Debussy and Ravel, and numerous public health projects in Paris, but she also had outraged husbands yell dueling challenges under her windows when she stole their wives.

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Millay-Finished-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadFamous and then forgotten in her own time, Edna St. Vincent Millay is well known today, and you’ve probably heard her poetry before, such as: “My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes and oh my friends—It gives a lovely light!” While primarilyContinue reading ““American Sappho” – Ep.23″

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Loringhoven-Finished-Audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadElsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wore dresses of New York City refuse, got arrested for only wearing a Mexican blanket in public, and once waved a giant dildo around in the streets. She brought dada to the US before the better known movement rose in Zurich in 1916. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read AlongContinue reading “Queen of Dada – Ep.22”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Gellhorn-Finished-Audio-Part-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAfter finally ditching Hemingway and making it through World War II, Martha Gellhorn continued with her career through the Vietnam War and well in the 1990s. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead Yours, for probably always: Martha Gellhorn’s letters of Love & WarContinue reading “Greatest Female War Correspondent Part Two – Ep.21”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Gellhorn-2.0-Finished-Audio-Part-One.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadKnown as the greatest female war correspondent of the 20th century, Martha Gellhorn’s reporting took her from the Great Depression, through the Spanish Civil War and World War II to the Vietnam War. Along the way, she covered other conflicts, wrote novels, and ended up married to Hemingway, whichContinue reading “Greatest Female War Correspondent – Ep.20”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Laura-and-Alice-Finished-audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadWhen it comes to women named Barney in the world of Paris Lesbos, the focus is usually Natalie Barney. However, her mother and sister had their own adventures and scandals from British explorers to nude statues in DC. Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way) Wild Heart: A Life by SuzanneContinue reading “Behind the Amazon – Ep.19”

https://parislesbospodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Otero-FinishedAudio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadCaroline Otero was renowned for dancing and seducing kings as one of the three top courtesans of La Belle Époque France. Her dancing career took her all over Europe and briefly into the opera Carmen. However, she also bet her own ass at the gambling tables of Monte CarloContinue reading “A Real Life Carmen – Ep.18”