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EP33: The Thing About Catherine's Love of Baseball

3/31/2022

 
Take me out to the ball game! This week we're getting sporty as we discuss Catherine Morland's love of baseball. If you have ever imagined a romcom moment for Catherine and Henry involving baseball, this episode is for you.

Selected Sources
  • Block, David. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
  • ———. “The Story of William Bray’s Diary.” Medium, September 5, 2013. https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-story-of-william-brays-diary-ff56a31de58d.
  • Citron, Jo Ann. “Running the Basepaths: Baseball and Jane Austen.” The Journal of Narrative Technique 18, no. 3 (1988): 269–77.
  • Hooper, Simon. “Did Baseball Begin in 18th-Century England?,” CNN, June 9, 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/06/01/lords.museum.baseball.cricket/. 
  • Miriam Webster. “No, Jane Austen Did Not Invent Baseball.” Accessed March 15, 2022. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/who-invented-the-word-baseball.
  • Britannica. “Rounders: English Game.” Accessed March 16, 2022. https://www.britannica.com/sports/rounders.
  • Thorn, John. "The 'Secret History' Of Baseball’s Earliest Days." Interview by Dave Davies. NPR Audio, March 16, 2011. https://www.npr.org/2011/03/16/134570236/the-secret-history-of-baseballs-earliest-days.
  • Wilson, John. “How Jane Austen Played Baseball.” First Things, March 22, 2019. https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/03/how-jane-austen-played-baseball.

EP32: The Thing About Jane's Irish Melodies

3/17/2022

 
Jane Fairfax has recently received a selection of music, and we're here to unpack the significance of that "new set of Irish melodies." Spoiler alert: Frank Churchill has some explaining to do. If you have ever received a mystery gift, this episode is for you.

Thank you to Salonnières for letting us share part of their gorgeous arrangement of "The Last Rose of Summer" as our outro music this week. You can learn more about Salonnières on their website, www.salonnieres.org and find their albums on iTunes.
Selected Sources:
  • Hunt, Una. “The Harper’s Legacy: National Airs and Pianoforte Music.” Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland 6 (2010): 3–53. https://doi.org/10.21427/D7MB3C.
  • Libin, Katheryn L. Shanks. “Music, Character, and Social Standing in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Persuasions 22 (2000): 15–30.
  • McCleave, Sarah. “The Genesis of Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies, 1808–1834.” In Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Paul Watt, Derek Scott, and Patrick Spedding, 47–70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316672037.004.
  • Montagne, Renee, and Miles Hoffman. “The ‘Irish Melodies’ Of Poet Thomas Moore.” Morning Edition. NPR, March 17, 2015. https://www.npr.org/2015/03/17/393530786/the-irish-melodies-of-poet-thomas-moore.
  • Moore, Thomas, and John Allen Stevenson. A Selection of Irish Melodies. Vol. 1. London and Dublin: James and William Power, 1808.
  • Piggott, Patrick. The Innocent Diversion: Music in the Life and Writings of Jane Austen. London: Cleverdon, 1979.

Ep31: The Thing About Marianne's Smelling Salts with guest Dr. Emily C. Friedman

3/10/2022

 
Pull up your fainting couch because have we got a revivifying episode for you! Dr. Emily C. Friedman is here to take us through the olfactory delights of smelling bottles, as well as breaking down what their various scents and applications tell us about characters like Marianne Dashwood and Lady Bertram.

Thank you so much to Emily for joining us for this episode! You can find her on Twitter @friede, on Instagram @ManuscriptFiction, on YouTube @CriticalProf, and at www.ecfriedman.com where you can find information about all of her work.

Also, check out Emily's monograph
 Reading Smell in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, coming out in paperback soon.

Ep30: The Thing About Lydia's Trip to Brighton

3/3/2022

 
Why exactly was Lydia Bennet so eager to visit Brighton and why was Elizabeth so right to be concerned? Brighton was the playground of the wealthy and free-wheeling in Austen's time, and we're here to give you the tour. If you have ever wanted to vacation with royalty, this episode is for you.

​Selected episode sources
  • Cannon, John, and Robert Crowcroft. “Brighton.” In A Dictionary of British History. Oxford University Press. Accessed February 25, 2022. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191758027.001.0001/acref-9780191758027-e-508.
  • Dinkel, J. “The Royal Pavilion.” Historic England. Accessed February 25, 2022. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1380680.
  • Imms, Adrian. “History of the Barracks That Came and Went.” The Argus, October 4, 2016. https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14781207.history-of-the-barracks-that-came-and-went/.
  • Le Faye, Deirdre. Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. 
  • Morrison, Robert. The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Bryon Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern. New York: Norton, 2019.
  • Sakula, Alex. “Doctor Brighton: Richard Russell and the Sea Water Cure.” Journal of Medical Biography 3, no. 1 (February 1995): 30–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/096777209500300105.
  • Royal Pavilion. “Short History of the Pavilion.” Accessed February 25, 2022. https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/short-history-of-the-royal-pavilion/.
  • Weis, Heather. “‘Brighton Possesses All the Requisites ... for Either Amusement or Dissipation’: Frivolity in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.” Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial, October 10, 2013. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/celia_pride/preconference/posters/5.

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