Hiatus Replay: Jane and Mary Findlater — Crossriggs with Julie and Shawna Benson

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We’re back January 30, 2024 with all new episodes. Sisters Jane and Mary Findlater were literary celebrities in their day and counted the likes of Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Rudyard Kipling among their admirers. We’ll be discussing one of their joint efforts, Crossriggs, which is considered their finest work. Joining us are Hollywood screenwriting sisters Julie and Shawna Benson who worked on the CW’s critically-acclaimed series The 100 and Netflix’s Wu Assassins.

Discussed in this episode:

The Brontes

Henry James

Virginia Woolf

Rudyard Kipling

Crossriggs by Jane and Mary Findlater

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Benson Sisters

Emma Approved

Jeopardy!

Nora and Delia Ephron

Bewitched

You’ve Got Mail

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

White Christmas

Mean Girls

The Green Graves of Balgowrie by Jane Findlater

Ellen Terry 

Lady Dorothy Gray

The Downton Abbey Christmas Special

The Birds’ Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 

The Affair at the Inn by Jane Findlater, Mary Findlater, Allan McAuley, and Kate Douglas Wiggin 

Mary Cholmondeley

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Emma by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse

George Knightley

The Witchlands by Susan Dennard

Jim Henson Company

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