Guard your wallets and jewels, old book lovers! There’s a pickpocket sneaking into The Gibson Girl Review today… and Amy and Jacinta are utterly fascinated by her! Tune in for their review of In the Bishop’s Carriage by Miriam Michelson, a 1903 novel that is as entertaining as it is unconventional.
Plus Amy exposes a Real-Life Gibson Girl fraud in our latest history segment!
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, Gibson Girls, gilded fiction, Camille Clifford, Abebooks, Bookshop.org, Henry W. Savage, the Great War, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Nobel Prize, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, pickpockets, prison, and grace.