The WPHP Monthly Mercury, Season 5: Episode 4, "A Newcastle Novelist"

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On the WPHP, our encounters with books and the women who worked on them are bibliographically-focused, as they must be for a project of this scale—focused attention on the contents of every work and the stories of their producers simply isn’t possible. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to engage with the works that closely—the opposite is true, in fact!—and for Episode 4 of Season 5 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “A Newcastle Novelist”, we were delighted to interview Dr. Tricia Monsour from the University of Saskatchewan about her dissertation project, a scholarly edition of a forgotten novel by a forgotten woman author, The Castle of Tynemouth (1806) by Jane Harvey, which does just that.

Rigorous attention to the intellectual, personal, and geographical contexts of the novel and its publication shapes Dr. Monsour’s encounter with this work in particular, and her understanding of Harvey more generally. In this interview, she emphasizes Harvey’s attention to space, place, and genre, and the personal contexts that data in a WPHP record cannot fully capture, familiarizing us and our listeners with this Newcastle novelist.

Guests

Tricia Monsour is a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Saskatchewan, whose dissertation took the form of a scholarly edition of the early nineteenth-century novel The Castle of Tynemouth (1806).

Credits

Produced by: Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren

Music: Ignatius Sancho, “Sweetest Bard”, A Collection of New Songs (1769) from https://brycchancarey.com/sancho/bard.jpg, and played by Kandice Sharren

WPHP Spotlights Referenced

Women and History Spotlight Series

“Cataloguing Catharine Macaulay” (Kate Moffatt)

WPHP Records Referenced

Harvey, Jane (person)

The Castle of Tynemouth (title)

A Sentimental Tour Through Newcastle (title)

William Lane [Minerva Press] (firm)

Andrew King Newman [Minerva Press] (firm)

Thomas Longman III (firm)

Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe (firm)

Henry Mozely I (firm)