In this episode, we’ll continue our conversation with Snow Widows author Katherine MacInnis. Where we left off in the previous episode, three men from the infamous Robert Scott and Arctic Expedition were lying dead in their tent, and two men were missing.

Recommended Reading:

Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes

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The story of the Robert Scott Expedition is one of the most well-documented exploration stories out there, but there's this entire other side of the story that's never been told - until a book by the name of Snow Widows was published. In today’s episode we’ll sit down with author Katherine MacInnes to talk about this incredible untold story.

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Snow Widows by Katherine MacInnes

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In this Salem Witch Trials follow-up episode, I want to chat about a few more fun – but really in this case not so fun - facts about the Salem Witch Trials that I couldn’t include in the previous episode, and also about a few recommendations for books that will tell you more about these and other fascinating aspects of the trials. So buckle up for this choose your own adventure book chat!

Recommended Books:

I, Tituba by Maryse Conde

The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent

The Witches by Stacy Schiff

A Season With the Witch by J.W. Ocker

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In this episode, we're going to talk about something that comes up every single October, and that is the Salem witch trials. But we're going to talk about this from a very specific angle. And hopefully it’s an angle from which you’ve not really looked at the trials before. So today we'll talk about an apology, a cover up and the so-called queen of hell.

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In 1887, Nellie Bly went undercover at Blackwell’s Asylum to expose its use as a holding pen for different or defiant women, and to reveal the horrors inside.

Recommended Reading:

Ten Days in a Mad House by Nellie Bly

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Elizabeth Packard has just come out of the fight of her life. She’d spent three years locked in an asylum that she had no power to get out of. Her spiteful husband had committed her and used every legal tool at his disposal to silence her powerful voice. And now, he had taken her children from her.

Elizabeth Packard was a fighter. And there was no way she was going to lay down for this fight for her children and for the rights of married women across the United States.

Recommended Reading:

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

The Great Drama by Elizabeth Packard

Marital Power Exemplified by Elizabeth Packard

Soon after waking up one morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a 40-year-old mother of six, was ambushed by two doctors who broke into her room. Her husband Theophilus had been threatening to commit her to an asylum for quite a while. And now he was finally making good on his promise.

Recommended Reading:

The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore

In 1823, a young woman named Mary Anning discovered a fossil that would forever change the way we view the earth.

Recommended Reading / Viewing:

The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

Ammonite (2020)

In this episode, Emma Duval and I dive into the concept of childfree women in history, and how women without children push boundaries and help us redefine womanhood.

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Recommended Reading:

Single women in the European Past Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide

A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott

How to be Childless by Rachel Chrasthil

Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and

Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Book by Rosalie Maggio

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Ammonite

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The Girl King

In this episode, Alycia from Civics & Coffee and I jump into a conversation about Jane Franklin and Abigail Adams, two women whose lives both reflect the women of their generation and defy the roles they were expected to fill.

Recommended Reading / Listening:

Book of Ages by Jill Lepore

Abigail Adams, a Life by Woody Holton

Civics & Coffee Podcast – Miss Independent: Abigail Adams