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N.J. (Nancy) Mastro's avatar

I can't wait to listen to both of these podcasts. I am always looking for new podcasts to follow. I listen to them while I walk, so I go through a lot of them!

I am not familiar with either one of these, but now that I have subscribed, I will enjoy hearing you as well as the many other interviews they offer. Thanks for sharing!

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Keri Lynn Engel's avatar

So glad you enjoyed it, Nancy! Anne is such a pleasure to talk to! I have a couple of cool upcoming interviews in the editing stage for the new Amazing Women In History podcast and I'm sure I'll be talking to Anne again soon, I hope you enjoy 😊

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N.J. (Nancy) Mastro's avatar

I hope so... I could listen to her for hours. Good luck with your new venture! It sounds excting. I've added your podcast to my podcast player. I listen to a lot of them, so I was happy to find a new one to add to my subscriptions.

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Etta Madden's avatar

Agreed about the role of podcasts! I am adding the new one!

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Anne Boyd's avatar

Hope you enjoy them!

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N.J. (Nancy) Mastro's avatar

I listened to both yesterday, and each was terrific to hear. You are very articulate, Anne. I learned so much. Kay Boyle especially fascinated me. She is someone I've never really heard of. Though I applaud your decision to leave your professorship, higher ed unfortunately lost an important voice when you left the halls of academia.

I was struck by your musing in one (I think it was Amazing Women in History) about what happens to creative, prolific women writers when they hook up with men. I know that for Mary Wollstonecraft, her love for Henry Fuseli sidelined her creativity for a period, and her love for Gilbert Imlay nearly destroyed her writing career altogether, not so much for what they did to as much as how their eventual rejection affected her, a result, I think, of her early wounds. Thank goodness a third love came through for her in the end, one in which she found love between equals.

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Anne Boyd's avatar

Yes, thank goodness. I think that is rare. So many women writers have been sidelined by their relationships with men. And so many have sworn off men together. I hope things are better today, but it’s hard to tell. Living women writers don’t talk much about their personal lives.

Thank you for listening, Nancy!!

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Richard Donnelly's avatar

For fifty years re-assessing women's fiction and the role of women in "classic" fiction has changed our reading, and it feels like we're just getting started

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