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.
Check out our theme song composer, Richard Wilkinson!
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.