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What Not, Rose Macaulay’s 1918 wild and witty speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics, influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our guest is literary historian Kate Macdonald, who wrote the first collection of scholarly essays on Macaulay and spearheads the publishing company Handheld Press.For episodes and show notes, visit:  LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit.  Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew.  Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

What Not, Rose Macaulay’s 1918 wild and witty speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics, influenced Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Our guest is literary historian Kate Macdonald, who wrote the first collection of scholarly essays on Macaulay and spearheads the publishing company Handheld Press.For episodes and show notes, visit: <a href="https://www.lostladiesoflit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LostLadiesofLit.com</a> Follow us on instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/lostladiesoflit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@lostladiesoflit</a>. Follow Kim on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/kaskew" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@kaskew</a>. Sign up for our newsletter: <a href="https://www.lostladiesoflit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LostLadiesofLit.com</a> Email us: <a href="https://www.lostladiesoflit.com/contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast</a>

Rose Macaulay — What Not with Kate Macdonald

This week John and Andy are joined by super-librarian Nancy Pearl, possibly the only librarian in the world to have their own action figure, to discuss Rose Macaulay's gloriously eccentric family saga Told by an Idiot. John has been reading Sally Bayley's acclaimed bibliomemoir Girl With Dove, while Andy waxes lyrical over Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning novel Less (and has a surprise in store...) This episode was recorded in the library at the recent Stoke Newington literary festival.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)9'04 - Less by Andrew Shaun Greer, 17'44 - *Unnamed Memoir* by Sally Bailey, 32'04 Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week John and Andy are joined by super-librarian Nancy Pearl, possibly the only librarian in the world to have their own action figure, to discuss Rose Macaulay's gloriously eccentric family saga Told by an Idiot. John has been reading Sally Bayley's acclaimed bibliomemoir Girl With Dove, while Andy waxes lyrical over Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer-winning novel Less (and has a surprise in store...) This episode was recorded in the library at the recent Stoke Newington literary festival.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)9'04 - Less by Andrew Shaun Greer, 17'44 - *Unnamed Memoir* by Sally Bailey, 32'04 Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at <a href="http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted</a> where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit <a href="http://www.backlisted.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.backlisted.fm</a>*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/backlisted</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Told by an Idiot by Rose Macaulay

"The Towers of Trebizond" by Rose Macaulay (56:07)

"The Towers of Trebizond" by Rose Macaulay