Mandylion
Mandylion Press publishes obscure novels from the (very) long nineteenth century. Our newsletter is a venue for Madeline and Mabel to scream into the void about fun, flirty things from the nineteenth century.
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1-800-1872: Abby and the chocolate factory (opens the original)
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Welcome back to 1-800-1800! This week we are joined by the one and only Abigail Sandler, architect and author of Price Upon Request, a newsletter exploring the role of ornament in our modern lives. Abby delights us with discussion of her favorite building, the Menier Chocolate Factory in Noisiel, France. Designed by Jules Saulnier (1817-1881), the building is distinguished by its iron frame and ornamental brick infill. Listen, like, and subscribe! Xo<a class="embedded-post" href="https:/
Mandylion Save the Date (opens the original)
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1-800-1891: basketball is our favorite sport (opens the original)
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This week, Harry Krinsky of Nothing But Respect joins us to talk about the invention of basketball. We discuss the rules of the game (you won’t believe how they dribbled), the cages they played in, and a hot controversy about its inventor. Listen now & follow Harry @lexaprotools on Substack & IG<3M+M Show Notes: “1-800-PODCAST” from 99% Invisible Football by Chuck Klosterman From Cages to Jumpshots by Robert W. Peterson Richard Sandomir, “ Basketball’s Birth, in James Naismith’s Own Spoken Words
MM #71: An unshoppable Mandylion shopping guide (opens the original)
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I would be remiss if I didn’t plug an opportunity to shop for Mandylion books in this newsletter all about how much I hate shopping. Our new books are for sale on our website. Love Days and The Story of Avis are both stories of love and loss for women in the long nineteenth century. Order them—then read them and weep. Xx <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xs7R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
1-800-The Tenant of Yesteryear (opens the original)
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com On this week’s bonus episode of 1-800-1800, the girls dare to discuss a contemporary novel, Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear (2026), a novel about a tradwife influencer who time travels to 1855. To avoid being too modern with it, Mabel and Madeline compare Burke’s #1 New York Times bestseller with the least-popular Brontë novel, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant …
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