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ENCORE: Ursula Parrott: Ex-Wife with Marsha Gordon

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “Jazz Age” novel that took this country by storm. Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife, a tragicomic indictment of early 20th-century romance, brought the author immense fame and wealth at the time of its publication in 1929. Yet by her death in 1957 she was penniless and homeless, a fate she all but predicted in the cautionary commentary of her writing. Our episode on Parrott (with her biographer, Marsha Gordon) originally aired two years ago this week, and we’re marking Spring Break with an encore presentation — including some updates on efforts to make sure Parrott isn’t confined to obscurity again.

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Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha Gordon

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sigmund Freud

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts

The Divorcee (1930 Film)

Norma Shearer


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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby may be the novel everyone’s talking about this month, but let’s not forget another “Jazz Age” novel that took this country by storm. Ursula Parrott’s Ex-Wife, a tragicomic indictment of early 20th-century romance, brought the author immense fame and wealth at the time of its publication in 1929. Yet by her death in 1957 she was penniless and homeless, a fate she all but predicted in the cautionary commentary of her writing. Our episode on Parrott (with her biographer, Marsha Gordon) originally aired two years ago this week, and we’re marking Spring Break with an encore presentation — including some updates on efforts to make sure Parrott isn’t confined to obscurity again.

Links:

Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

Becoming the Ex-Wife by Marsha Gordon

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sigmund Freud

Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Marjorie Hillis with Joanna Scutts

The Divorcee (1930 Film)

Norma Shearer


Support the show

For episodes and show notes, visit:

LostLadiesofLit.com
Subscribe to our
substack newsletter.

Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit.

Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

  continue reading

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