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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History

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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant is a podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th-century women’s letters that don’t always make it into the history books. Join historian Kathryn Gehred and her guests as they explore the lives of women and the world around them through their letters.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 7: Strange! Most Passing Strange!

Episode 7: Strange! Most Passing Strange!

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09/15/20 • 36 min

Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis) to Elizabeth Bordley (Gibson), Washington City, Feb. 7th, 1796. What does George Washington's granddaughter have to do with the invention of race in the early U.S. republic? Find out in this week's episode! Many thanks to Allison Robinson, a PhD. candidate at the University of Chicago and predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution for sharing her knowledge and being a lovely guest! Further Reading: The text of the letter is from "George Washington's beautiful Nelly : the letters of Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794-1851," edited by Patricia Brady, University of South Carolina Press, 1991, pg. 23-25 This episode would not be possible without the INCREDIBLE RESEARCH of Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University. Her chapter "The Empire Comes Home: Thomas Law's Mixed Race Family in the Early Republic," pp. 75-108 in the book "India in the American Imaginary, 1780s-1880s", edited by A. Arora and R. Kaur, 2017, is where we got all of our information on Thomas Law. Eleanor Parke Custis: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/eleanor-nelly-parke-custis/ Elizabeth Parke Custis: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/elizabeth-parke-custis-law/ Japanning: https://www.britannica.com/art/japanning NARRATIVES/COUNTERNARRATIVES: TWO CENTURIES OF RACE, GENDER, AND CLASS IN AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE: https://voices.uchicago.edu/reproducingraceandgender/ John and Abigail Adams Letters: https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17960223ja&hi=1&query=nabob&tag=text&archive=all&rec=1&start=0&numRecs=3 https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17960305aa&rec=sheet&archive=all&hi=1&numRecs=3&query=nabob&queryid=&start=0&tag=text&num...
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton

Episode 49: Deposition of Phillis Tatton

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03/19/24 • 42 min

Deposition of Phillis Tatton, 3rd November 1837 In which Phillis Hinkley Saunders Tatton appeared before the County of Probate in the state of Connecticut in an attempt to secure a pension for her late husband’s service during the American Revolutionary War.

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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 13: Honey from Athens... but Alas! No Butter

Episode 13: Honey from Athens... but Alas! No Butter

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12/08/20 • 45 min

Henrietta Marchant Liston to Dick Ramage, 6 March 1813 In which Henrietta Marchant Liston, married to diplomat Robert Liston, writes to her nephew about her experience so far in Constantinople. "We are out of your world it is true; but we are in the Oriental one." Many thanks to BOTH of this week's guests, Dora Petherbridge and Patrick Hart, two of the editors of Henrietta Liston's journals. More Sources: For the print edition of Henrietta Liston's Turkish Journals: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henrietta-liston-s-travels.html For the FANTASTIC digital resource, featuring Liston's journals and letters, as well as interactive maps, videos, and essays: https://digital.nls.uk/travels-of-henrietta-liston/listons/index.html
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 30: Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa

Episode 30: Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa

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03/08/22 • 48 min

Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa to "Philo" In which a Mughal woman who co-habitated with and eventually married a white employee of the East India Company writes to her son about fat babies and beautiful black pigs. I am joined by Dr. Megan Robb, the Julie and Martin Franklin Assistant Professor of South Asian Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, who is creating a digital archive of Sharaf-un-Nisa's letters. This fantastic project is called Unstable Archives, and you can visit it here: https://unstable-archives.com/
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 38: A Rumor That You Abandoned Me

Episode 38: A Rumor That You Abandoned Me

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03/14/23 • 34 min

Jannote Roustant to Jean Roustant, 1 July 1745 AND Johanna Fredericha Teller to Ambrosius Teller, 28 May 1798. In which two separate women deal with the fallout of their absent husbands. I'm thrilled to post this episode that I recorded last July with Dr. Lucas Haasis (@LHaasis) and Lisa Magnin, researchers with the Prize Papers Project. This is an incredible project that is going to be a great resource for people studying just about any aspect of history. Resources: The project: https://www.prizepapers.de/ Magnin's work: https://www.prizepapers.de/stories/case-studies/case-study-french-prizes/the-amphitrion/the-diligente-1 Haasis's book: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-power-of-persuasion/9783837656527
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 37: Wounded The Feelings Of A Lady

Episode 37: Wounded The Feelings Of A Lady

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02/07/23 • 38 min

Sarah Livingston Jay to Samuel Lyon, 14 Nov. 1794 In which the wife of a diplomat writes to a man about a horse, and things get REALLY messy, really fast. Many thanks to my wonderful guest, Robb Haberman, for talking about this letter with me! Further Reading: The letter: https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/john_jay/item/12342 The Jay Papers Volumes on Rotunda: https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/JNJY.html The scanned, digitized Jay Papers: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/jay
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 36: I Should Be Glad To Leave The School

Episode 36: I Should Be Glad To Leave The School

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01/03/23 • 53 min

Mary Secutor to Eleazar Wheelock, 28 July 1768 In which a woman of the Narragansett tribe politely but firmly departs from Moor's Indian Charity School. Thank you so much to my guest, Dr. Ivy Schweitzer, professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, for telling me about this fascinating letter and the wonderful Occom Circle project! Resources: The letter, Mary Secutor to Eleazer Wheelock: https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/diplomatic/768428-2-diplomatic.html Edward Deake to Eleazer Wheelock, 21 June 1768: https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/diplomatic/768371-2-diplomatic.html Wyss, Hilary E.. "Mary Occom and Sarah Simon: Gender and Native Literacy In Colonial New England." New England Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 3, 1 Sep. 2006, pp. 387 - 412.
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 35: George Wiseacre Parke Custis

Episode 35: George Wiseacre Parke Custis

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11/10/22 • 28 min

Eleanor Parke Custis (Lewis) to Elizabeth Bordley (Gibson), 14 May 1798 In which rumors are dispelled, patriotic songs are sung, and girls draw on large mustaches with burnt cork. Many thanks to returning guest Samantha Snyder for coming on the show to talk about this letter! Note: at the time of recording neither Samantha nor my book had come out yet. Now both of them have! Please do check them out. Thank you for your patience while I worked on this episode! Brady, Patricia. George Washington’s Beautiful Nelly: The Letters of Eleanor Parke Curtis Lewis to Elizabeth Bordley Gibson, 1794-1851. Expanded ed. edition. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. “Founders Online: From George Washington to George Washington Parke Custis, 15 A ....” University of Virginia Press. Accessed November 8, 2022. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0165. “Founders Online: To George Washington from George Washington Parke Custis, 2 Ap ....” University of Virginia Press. Accessed November 8, 2022. http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/06-02-02-0148. The Papers of Martha Washington. Accessed November 8, 2022. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5473. Women in George Washington’s World. Accessed November 8, 2022. https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5720.
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 33: Any Dandridge That Ever Wore An Head

Episode 33: Any Dandridge That Ever Wore An Head

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04/19/22 • 23 min

The Testimony of Anne Moody Part the last of Martha Washington's In-Laws! In which Anne Moody explains how she came to own so much silver plate with engravings of parrots. Also featuring: John Custis IV, and this time, he's REAL cranky. Further Reading: "an answer (incomplete) n.d., of Mrs. Anne Moody and Matthew Moody to a bill of complaint of Daniel Parke Custis in an unidentified court in Virginia." http://librarycatalog.virginiahistory.org/final/portal.aspx?lang=en-US My book: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5473 John Custis to William Byrd II, 20 July 1724, ; John Custis to [Thomas Dunbar] 15 January 1724/25, in Custis, John, and Josephine Little Zuppan. The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717-1742. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, pg. 64, 68. John Custis IV Encyclopedia Virginia: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/custis-john-1678-1749/ Daniel Parke Custis in Encyclopedia Virginia: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/custis-daniel-parke-1711-1757/
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History - Episode 3: Skipping About

Episode 3: Skipping About

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07/21/20 • 32 min

Cornelia Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 18 January 1818. One of Thomas Jefferson's granddaughters writes to her sister-in-law about parties, shallow friendships, and an embarrassing incident on the dance floor. Kathryn is joined this week by Mary Wigge, a research editor of Martha Washington's papers. You can read the full transcribed text of this letter (along with the original handwritten document!) here: http://tjrs.monticello.org/letter/754 For more information on Cornelia Jefferson Randolph visit here: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/cornelia-jefferson-randolph And for more information on Jane Hollins Nicholas Randolph visit here: https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jane-hollins-nicholas-randolph
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Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History currently has 61 episodes available.

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The episode title 'Episode 37: Wounded The Feelings Of A Lady' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant: A Women's History is 32 minutes.

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