The Gibson Girl Review

She's back!! Katja Labonté, the original co-host of The Gibson Girl Review, returns as a guest reviewer for this all-new episode, as she and Amy crack open the cover on Henry James' scandalous 1878 novella, Daisy Miller. But is this story as shocking for us today as it supposedly was during the Gilded Age? And how does this story relate to Amy and Katja's very first episode of the podcast?

And speaking of scandals, Amy introduces us in the history segment to Evelyn Nesbit, the most notorious of all the real-life Gibson Girl models, whose story is a surprisingly close parallel to that of our featured book's heroine.

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Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, Gibson Girls, the Gilded Age, Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, the Redwall series, Pollyanna, Anne of Green Gables, Hannah Linder, The Girl from the Hidden Forest, Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, The Trial of the Century, murder, scandal, insanity, jealousy, Gilmore Girls, American ex-patriots, Newport, Paris, London, Geneva, World War I, the Nobel Prize for Literature, Impressionism, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pink and White Tyranny, The Vassar Miscellany, Vassar girls, A Study in Bloomers, Miss Bayle's Romance, and Mr. Darcy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the very first author to appear a second time on our podcast, Richard Harding Davis! Today's all-new episode explores Davis' 1895 royal romance, THE PRINCESS ALINE—approved by none other than Queen Victoria herself! And we already know that Amy is a fan... but what does Jacinta think of her very first Dick Davis novel? Tune in to find out!

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Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Richard Harding Davis, Charles Dana Gibson, Queen Victoria, Princess Alix of Hesse, Tsar Nicholas II, the Russian Revolution, the Gilded Age, The Prisoner of Zenda, Somewhere in Time, Ward McAllister, the Patriarch's Ball, Delmonico's, Irene Langhorne Gibson, Cecil Clark Davis, Fairfax Downey, the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, Jeeves and Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse, the Atelier Julien, European tourism, and Ethel Barrymore.

It's a Gibson Girl first—TWO guest reviewers! Gwendolyn Gage makes her third appearance on the podcast (is it time to start calling her a co-host?), along with longtime show fan Anne Skelly, a docent at the Frederic Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, NY. They join Amy in the studio for a deep dive into the first novel written by the legendary Western artist Frederic Remington, JOHN ERMINE OF THE YELLOWSTONE (1902). Plus Anne, with her expertise on all things Fred, is the show's first-ever guest historian for the history segment!

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Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:

The Way of an Indian by Frederic Remington

Richard Harding Davis

True Grit by Charles Portis

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, the Golden Age of Illustration, the Crow (Absaroke) tribe, Dances with Wolves, Tombstone, John Wayne, John Ford, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, the U.S. Cavalry, the Apache Wars, the Civil War, tuberculosis, fish-out-of-water tropes, anti-heroes, and scalping.

Diamonds and veggies and... ham? Oh my! It's laughs a-plenty at The Gibson Girl Review, as Amy and Katja dive into the shockingly-modern screwball comedy, Keeping Up with Lizzie, by Irving Bacheller (1911). Plus Amy explores the popularity and worldwide reach of the Gibson Girl... and may be the first historian ever to connect her popularity to the handsome bachelor Charles Dana Gibson himself. CLICK HERE⁠ for complete show notes, including a link to download today's book for FREE! Topics and shout-outs in today's episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, the Gibson Girl, the Gibson Man, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Irving Bacheller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Fraser Rae, Richard Harding Davis, Sarah Sundin, World War II, Lew Sarrett, William Trufant Foster, the Four Hundred, living tableaux, newspapermen, Harvard, finishing school, Harold Lloyd, Keystone Cops, silent comedies, farming, homesteading, automobiles, motorcycles, dieting, influencers, and social media.

Are all old books worth reading... even bad ones? The very existence of The Gibson Girl Review is threatened as Amy and Katja take up the challenge of defending the relevance and readability of Miss Bayle's Romance by William Fraser Rae (1887)—a book they actually did not enjoy. Plus they follow young Charles Dana Gibson on his very first trip to Europe. CLICK HERE for complete show notes, including a link to download today's book for FREE! Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, the Gibson Girl, the Gilded Age, Satchmo, John Hughes, the Enneagram, George du Maurier, Punch, Sir Walter Scott, Richard Wilkinson, American heiresses, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, London, Paris, the Atelier Julien, gambling professions, the Grand Tour, European aristocrats, Downton Abbey, HBO's The Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Life Magazine, and British elections.