Scandalous, Obscure, and Fabulous

Scandalous, Obscure, and Fabulous

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  • Isabelle de Limeuil and Charlotte de Sauve

    Seductresses or just got a bad reputation in history? Listen and you decide... Discover the myth of Catherine de Medici's flying squadron.

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    36 min
  • Lady Katherine and Mary Grey

    Today we will learn about Lady Jane Grey's sisters, Katherine and Mary.


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    Citations
    Chapman, Hester: Two Tudor Portraits: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey and Lady Katherine Grey Jonathan Cape 1960
    Farquhar, Michael: A Treasure of Royal Scandals Penguin Books 2001 ISBN 0-7394-2025-9
    Ives, Eric: Lady Jane Grey. A Tudor Mystery Wiley-Blackwell ISBN 978-1-4051-9413-6
    Haynes, Alan. Sex in Elizabethan England Sutton Publishing 1997 ISBN 0-905778-35-9
    Adams, Simon (2006). "Stafford, Lady Dorothy (1526–1604)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69753.
    Cokayne, George Edward (1926). The Complete Peerage edited by Vicary Gibbs. VI. London: St. Catherine Press.
    De Lisle, Leanda (2008). The Sisters Who Would Be Queen; The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey. London, UK: HarperPress. ISBN 978-0-00-728043-8.
    Doran, Susan (2004). "Keys (Grey), Lady Mary (1545?–1578)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15503.
    Greenfield, Benjamin Wyatt (1863). "The Descent of the Manor and Advowson of Hampton-Poyle". In Nichols, John Gough (ed.). The Herald and Genealogist. I. London, UK: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons. pp. 321–44.
    Hawtrey, Florence Molesworth (1903). The History of the Hawtrey Family. I. London, UK: George Allen.
    Ives, Eric (2009). Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery. Wiley-Blackwell.

    27 min
  • Seymour Fleming

    Today we will learn about Seymour Fleming. Was she a cheater, obedient wife to a cuck, or a little bit of both? Let's try to find out!


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    Sources

    29, WHN / January, and Whn. “Seymour Dorothy Fleming (1757-1818), Part 1.” Women's History Network, 29 Jan. 2012, womenshistorynetwork.org/seymour-dorothy-fleming-1757-1818-part-1/.

    “Connect to a Deeper Family Story.” Ancestry, www.ancestry.com/.

    “Discover Your Family Tree, Together.” Family Tree & Family History at Geni.com,

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    The Cuckold's Chronicle: Being Select Trials for Adultry [Sic], Incest, Imbecility, Ravishment, &c. : Volume I., quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N25328.0001.001/1:4.1?rgn=div2;view.

    Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: 1361135

    London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932

    London, England: Oxford University Press; Volume: Vol 21

    London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P89/MRY1/006

    Obituaries prior to 1800; Author: Musgrave, William, Sir, 1735-1800; Armytage, George J., Sir, 1842-1918

    Oldham, James. “English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield.” Google Books, Univ of North Carolina Press, 15 Dec. 2005, books.google.com/books/about/English_Common_Law_in_the_Age_of_Mansfie.html?id=nFNwQ9IahcwC.

    Oldham, James. English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield. The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

    Rubenhold, Hallie. Lady Worsleys Whim: an Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. Vintage, 2009.

    Surrey History Centre; Woking, Surrey, England; Reference Number: FA/2/5

    The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 886


    The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 1609


    The National Archives. “The Discovery Service.” WORSLEY OF APPULDURCOMBE | The National Archives, The National Archives, 12 Aug. 2009, discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/3a30d6a6-9791-4317-8cad-5a46eabd4329.

    West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: RDP31/9


    32 min
  • Trailer

    Welcome to Scandalous, Obscure, and Fabulous Podcast where we talk about the women you won't find in a text book!

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    1 min

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This podcast takes a look at the lesser known, scandalous ladies in history.