Education Is Responsible for a !@#?*! Lot of Ignorance

03/21/23 • 48 min

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.

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Sometimes, Even Today, There Is the Chance Samaritan

Bring on the hearts and flowers... there's a new hero in town at The Gibson Girl Review, and Amy and Katja are in love! Richard Harding Davis makes his debut on the podcast with his heartwarming tale, Her First Appearance (1892), and leaves our hosts breathless for more. Plus they introduce the Gibson Girl herself, and explore just what Charles Dana Gibson's work meant to women at the turn of the 20th century. 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, Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, San Juan Hill, the Spanish-American War, Mount Rushmore, theatrical life, acting, Sean Connery, friendship, family loyalty, Goodreads, Harrison Ford, Ernest Hemingway, The Modern Woman, the New York Times, the Good Samaritan, social justice, Batman, George du Maurier, William Fraser Rae, Miss Bayle's Romance, historical romantic suspense, and the King's Daughters Writing camp.

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Love Is Better and Mightier Than Force

It's finally here—THE BIG ONE! In recognition of Holy Week, The Gibson Girl Review is diving into one of the most famous, most-adapted, best-loved, and best-selling books of all time—Lew Wallace's blockbuster epic, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). While Amy has been a huge fan of this story since childhood, Katja was a first-time reader who knew almost nothing about it. From two such opposite ends of the spectrum, will our hosts end up agreeing on this classic novel? Plus they welcome their very first guest reader on the show. Tune in for their most dramatic and heartfelt episode yet! 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: Jesus Christ, Holy Week, Easter, the chariot race, Anne of Green Gables, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, blockbusters, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Star Wars, the Civil War, the Super Bowl, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, philanthropy wars, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, the YMCA, Chautauqua, Sears Roebuck & Co., the Social Gospel movement, the Panic of 1873, consumerism, copyright laws, agnosticism, Charlton Heston, the Academy Awards, salvation, revenge, redemption, love, love triangles, slavery, father figures, and Broadway.