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.
04/19/24 • 40 min
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