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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 1, Episode 1: These Dollhouses Aren’t for Kids
S01E01: Mother of Forensic Science Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Miyu Kojima’s Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths.
In this very first official episode of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Haley and Natali discuss Miyu Kojima and Frances Glessner Lee–two women, worlds and decades apart, who combined craft and death in their own amazing way. One would process death and create an act of public service for the living, the other would birth Forensic Science as we know it today.
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials on Frances Glessner Lee:
- Frances Glessner Lee Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Glessner_Lee
- Frances Glessner Lee: Brief Life of a forensic miniaturist: 1878-1962: https://harvardmagazine.com/2005/09/frances-glessner-lee-html
- Blewett Harrison Lee Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blewett_Harrison_Lee
- Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutshell_Studies_of_Unexplained_Death
- Smithsonian American Art Museum display: https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/nutshells
- Murder is Her Hobby: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/arts/design/frances-glessner-lee-forensic-science-renwick-museum.html
- Glessner House: https://www.glessnerhouse.org/the-collection
Links to research materials on Miyu Kojima :
- Japan Times Article:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/11/25/lifestyle/lonely-death-reconstructions/#.XscJhxNKj_Q - Design You Trust Article: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/10/miyu-kojima-creates-miniature-replicas-of-lonely-deaths/
- 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics, by Bruce Goldfarb: https://amzn.to/2Wq0vGU (affiliate link)