The Gibson Girl Review

An Earthquake of the Soul


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Uh-oh! We finally have a rift between our hosts! The Gibson Girl Review cracks wide open (and cracks up!) over Sara Dean's 1907 melodramatic novel Travers: A Story of the San Francisco Earthquake. But on this, the 117th anniversary of that fateful day, will Amy and Katja be able to find common ground? Plus Amy takes a closer look at the Gibson Girl's dashing hero, the Gibson Man.
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Topics and shout-outs in today's episode include: the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, Charles Dana Gibson, Richard Harding Davis, Gallegher, Delmonico's, Scribner's Magazine, San Francisco, California, the Metropolitan Opera, Carmen, Enrico Caruso, the Palace Hotel, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, melodrama, earthquake, fire, world travel, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, modern dialogue, and coincidences.
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