Tea or Books? #113: Do We Like Literary Retellings? and South Riding vs Ruth

Elizabeth Gaskell, Winifred Holtby, and more – welcome to episode 113! In the first half of this episode, we look at literary retellings – by which we mean authors using fairy tales or Greek mythology or basically whatever we fancy

Elizabeth Gaskell, Winifred Holtby, and more – welcome to episode 113!

In the first half of this episode, we look at literary retellings – by which we mean authors using fairy tales or Greek mythology or basically whatever we fancy including in this very loose definition. It feels like a topic we’ve done before, but apparently we haven’t?

In the second half, we compare two doorstoppers – South Riding by Winifred Holtby and Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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The books and authors we discuss in this episode:

Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors by Lisa Appignanesi

The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Ulysses by James Joyce

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Longbourn by Jo Baker

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns

A Wild Swan and other stories by Michael Cunningham

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Anthony Trollope

Lady Audley’s Secret by M.E. Braddon

Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner

A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen