🔒 Marianne Faithfull’s “Lady of Shalott” and Other Doomed Noblewomen

Subscriber-only episode Send us a text One of the last projects recorded by singer/actress Marianne Faithfull (who passed away in January) was a 2021 spoken word album of English Romantic poetry, including a hauntingly beautiful 12-minute recitation of Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott.” After exploring Faithfull’s passion for (and family connections to) classic literature, Amy finds new meaning in this poem about an exiled woman fated to forever view life through a mirror’s reflection. This episode includes accounts of several other doomed and exiled noblewomen in history — Lucrezia de Medici and Marguerite de la Rocque — and the books their lives inspired. Mentioned in this episode: She Walks in Beauty by Marianne Faithfull “As Tears Go By” by Marianne Faithfull “The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Venus in Furs by The Velvet Underground The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell Lucrezia de Medici Portrait of Lucrezia de Medici at North Carolina Museum of Art “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning Isola by Allegra Goodman Marguerite de la Rocque The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre 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