Fiona part 2
"Fiona might not have quite the history that you imagined, but it's a beautiful history."
βI don't think that anyone should come away from this conversation not wanting to use the name Fiona. I think this is a beautiful and rich history. It might not be quite the history that you imagined, but I think it's a beautiful history," says writer and performer Harry Josie Giles. She and PhD researcher Moll Heaton-Callaway investigate this complicated name with fascinating history.
This is part two of a pair of episodes about the name Fiona; listen to part one first for part two to make sense, and to get some useful links about the subject matter. theallusionist.org/fiona1
Harry Josie Giles is a writer and performer whose verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia just won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year!
Moll Heaton-Callaway is a scholar of book history and gender identity and has written a PhD thesis about Fiona Macleod and William Sharp.
This episode was produced by Helen Zaltzman, with editorial assistance from Martin Austwick who also composed the music.
