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Can you be a feminist and like Jane Austen? The podcast that proves it

Can you be a feminist and like Jane Austen? The podcast that proves it

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The restaurant and cocktail bar Jok, hidden on a mezzanine in Barcelona's Eixample, with its modernist decor and rosé velvet sofas, seems like the perfect setting for the cutest Victorian podcast out there. I'm going to see the "Punkis Decimonòniques" precisely on the day they disband: this will be their last show after five years of delving into the best novels by Victorian female writers , most of which have recently been published in Catalan by Viena, in collections such as Club Victòria and Petits Plaers. Indeed, their editor, Blanca Pujals, along with the then bookseller of La Carbonera, Carlota Freixenet, are the "Victorian ladies of the 21st century".

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