1-800-1800
Brought to you by Mandylion®, 1-800-1800 is your guide to 19th-century history, art, literature, culture, and scandal. Each episode, we dial into a random year of the 1800s to gab about the chaos that shaped the modern world.
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1-800-The Awakening (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace to enter the over-worked field of sex-fiction” — said one critic of Kate Chopin’s landmark 1899 novel The Awakening. Mabel and Madeline dip their toes into the controversy in this week’s special bonus episode of 1-800-1800. * Kate Chopin: A Reawakening * “Kate Chopin: The Awakening, T…
1-800-1876: America, the sequel (opens the original)
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Yoohoo, Welcome to America, the sequel. In this episode we look back at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. We talk about the giant engines and sexy corsets on display, the unfinished revolutionary projects in civil rights and labor movements, and what, exactly, an acre is. Like, subscribe, drop us a line. XOXO, M&M Show Notes * The Flying Horses , Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. * Paine, Thomas, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Of The Religious Society Of Friends. Meeting For Suff
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