Alcott Nieriker's guest appearances

Alcott Nieriker

C19: America in the 19th Century

What'sHerName

Let Genius Burn

Harriet Jacobs

Emily Dickinson

James Barry

Herman Melville

Wangari Maathai

Sophie Blanchard

Edmonia Lewis

Charles Chesnutt

Helen Stephens

Maria Sibylla Merian

Annie Londonderry

Keri Leigh Merritt

Claudia Jones

Mary Stuart

Bessie Margolin

OwlTail

Meet Lauren Stern: a researcher interested in social and material history. She has been a staff member at Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House since 2006, where she has worked to bring New England history alive through summer camps, museum tours, and living history programs. In this episode, Lauren discusses her experiences at Orchard House as well as her research on the life of May Alcott Nieriker. As an expert in historical fashion, Lauren also discusses the fashion trends during the decades of Louisa May Alcott's adulthood, from Victorian sleeve trends and bustles, to corsets and the Alcott's involvement in dress reform.Lauren is also a dance historian and performer with the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, where she gets to wear all those ball dresses she makes. She blogs about her research and experiments at plaidpetticoats.blogspot.com, and makes short-form dance history videos on tiktok (@plaidpetticoats). She has also made her own pickled limes.In addition to Lauren's personal website, she recommends the following resources: https://twistedpreservation.com/ https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/search/collection/fashionhttps://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/archival_objects/284321

Meet Lauren Stern: a researcher interested in social and material history. She has been a staff member at Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House since 2006, where she has worked to bring New England history alive through summer camps, museum tours, and living history programs. In this episode, Lauren discusses her experiences at Orchard House as well as her research on the life of May Alcott Nieriker. As an expert in historical fashion, Lauren also discusses the fashion trends during the decades of Louisa May Alcott's adulthood, from Victorian sleeve trends and bustles, to corsets and the Alcott's involvement in dress reform. Lauren is also a dance historian and performer with the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers, where she gets to wear all those ball dresses she makes. She blogs about her research and experiments at <a href="http://plaidpetticoats.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">plaidpetticoats.blogspot.com</a>, and makes short-form dance history videos on tiktok (@plaidpetticoats). She has also made her own pickled limes. In addition to Lauren's personal website, she recommends the following resources: <ul><li><a href="https://twistedpreservation.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twistedpreservation.com/</a> </li><li><a href="https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/search/collection/fashion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/search/collection/fashion</a></li><li><a href="https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/archival_objects/284321" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/archival_objects/284321</a></li></ul>

Louisa in Style: Conversation with Lauren Stern about May Alcott Nieriker and Historical Dress

May Alcott failed spectacularly countless times before becoming a great artist. Immortalized by her sister as the vain, vivacious Amy in Little Women, the real youngest “March” sister, May, was a conscientious, creative, and courageous artist whose enthusiastic energy lifted everyone around her. Travel with Katie to Orchard House, where the Alcotts lived 175 years ago, and see the world as May saw it: beautiful, joyful, and full of possibility.Guest Jan Turnquist is the executive director of Orchard House, and director and co-executive producer of the Emmy award-winning documentary Orchard House: Home of the Little Women.Music featured in this episode includes music by Wayne Jones, Late Night Feeler, Esther Abrami, Aaron Kenny, and Sir Cubworth.Want to help us “make history”? Become a Patron or Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May Alcott failed spectacularly countless times before becoming a great artist. Immortalized by her sister as the vain, vivacious Amy in Little Women, the real youngest “March” sister, May, was a conscientious, creative, and courageous artist whose enthusiastic energy lifted everyone around her. Travel with Katie to <a href="https://louisamayalcott.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orchard House</a>, where the Alcotts lived 175 years ago, and see the world as May saw it: beautiful, joyful, and full of possibility.Guest Jan Turnquist is the executive director of <a href="https://louisamayalcott.org/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orchard House</a>, and director and co-executive producer of the Emmy award-winning documentary <a href="http://kanopy.com/video/orchard-house-home-little-women" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orchard House: Home of the Little Women.</a>Music featured in this episode includes music by Wayne Jones, Late Night Feeler, Esther Abrami, Aaron Kenny, and Sir Cubworth.Want to help us “make history”? Become a <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatshernamepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Patron</a> or <a href="https://whatshernamepodcast.com/donate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Donate</a> here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

THE LITTLE WOMAN May Alcott Nieriker

May Alcott Nieriker is mostly remembered as a footnote in a famous family: the daughter of Bronson Alcott and the inspiration for Amy March in her sister Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. But Alcott Nieriker was a writer and an accomplished painter who studied in Paris and was described by John Ruskin as “the only artist worthy to copy Turner.” This episode emerges from the the conference “Recovering May Alcott Nieriker’s Life and Works,” which was held at the Université Paris Diderot on June 28, 2018. What work can be done through research, teaching, and even historical fiction to bring her to the fore? Here Azelina Flint (University of East Anglia) and her students Poppy Henson and Emelia Platt introduce listeners to May Alcott Nieriker and interview novelist Elise Hooper, author of The Other Alcott (2017), Marlowe Daly-Galeano (Lewis Clark State College), Lauren Hehmeyer (Texarkana College), and John Matteson (John Jay College, CUNY). This episode was created by Flint and produced by Chris Timms (Essex University) with post-production help from Mark Sussman.

S02E03 | The Real Amy March: Recovering May Alcott Nieriker's Life and Works