It’s Leap Day—and the men have taken over the podcast! It’s the first-ever episode of The Gibson MAN Review, because today’s featured book, For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss (1907), definitely needed guy’s perspective to help Amy and our Jacinta understand it. Plus, in honor of the tables-turned day, Amy introduces the original Gibson Man model in the history segment, Charles Dana Gibson’s very own brother, Langdon.
Topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Gibson Man, Charles Dana Gibson, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Leap Day, Richard Harding Davis, Langdon Gibson, the Stanton Expedition of 1889-1890, the Peary Expedition of 1891-1892, General Electric, fictional heroes, Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Mr. Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Persuasion, Captain Wentworth, Emma, Mr. Elton, Frank Churchill, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Gilbert Blythe, Emily of New Moon, Teddy Kent, The Black Stallion, Alec Ramsey, Walter Farley, Rudolph Rassendyll, The Prisoner of Zenda, Anthony Hope, Poor Dear Theodora!, Alan Beeckman, Florence Irwin, Levi Grant, To Win Her Heart, Karen Witemeyer, Matt Jarreau, My Stubborn Heart, Becky Wade, Authentically Izzy, World War I, racism, shipwrecks, salvage works, Horatio Hornblower, Soldiers of Fortune, Mr. Latimer, In the Bishop’s Carriage, Goodreads, manual labor, malaria, Africa, and the Canary Islands.