Get ready!  Consuelo has a full and happy life with a few ups and downs.  No problem.  She's got this!


The bed hopping bride of Blenheim: She's always been portrayed as the wronged chatelaine of one of Britain’s grandest houses - but now a sensational letter has exposed the affairs that tortured her husband
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7068705/New-letter-exposes-Consuelo-Vanderbilt-Blenheim-calls-husbands-heirs-

The story of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt’s ‘celebrity wedding’ in 1895 — and a very personal portrait that she kept until her death
question.htmlhttps://www.christies.com/features/the-story-of-consuelo-vanderbilts-marriage-to-the-duke-of-marlborough-7745-1.aspx
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MZN0WS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

https://www.edwardianpromenade.com/love/the-duchess-of-marlboroughs-lovers/

https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/high-style-in-the-gilded-age-consuelo-vanderbilt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MZN0WS/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Consuelo Vanderbilt has everything a girl could want including a pushy mother who wants her daughter to marry a duke that she does not love, or even really like.  Yikes!!  This is a short episode about Consuelo to the point when she marries the Duke.  Have a listen and get ready for part 2 next week.  The marriage is rocky and full of affairs and scandal.  Does Consuelo finally find love-check back next week to find out.  
Definitely click on some of the newspaper sources below.  They are fascinating. 

Sources:

• The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.), 15 Sept. 1894. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99066033/1894-09-15/ed-1/seq-10/>
• The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]), 14 Jan. 1892. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91070630/1892-01-14/ed-1/seq-4/>)
• The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 05 Oct. 1895. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84025891/1895-10-05/ed-1/seq-8/>
•  HUGO VICKERS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7068705/New-letter-exposes-Consuelo-Vanderbilt-Blenheim-calls-husbands-heirs-question.html
• Bates, Karen Grigsby. “‘Consuelo and Alva’: An Early Story of Celebrity.” NPR, 1 Feb. 2006, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5159494. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.
• Cummings, Mary. “High Style in the Gilded Age: Consuelo Vanderbilt.” Southampton-History, 8 Jan. 2021, https://www.southamptonhistory.org/post/high-style-in-the-gilded-age-consuelo-vanderbilt. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.
• MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey). Workman Publishing, 2012.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

If you have been watching "The Gilded Age" on HBOmax then today's episode will be just what you are looking for to get a little extra information on some of the characters.  Mrs. Russell in the series is based on the real life of Alva Vanderbilt.  She was a determined and strong women who knew what she wanted for herself and her family and would do almost anything to get it.  Once her family was grown she moved on to suffrage and used her money and notoriety to advance this cause.

Stay tuned because next week we will dive into the life of Consuelo Vanderbilt who is represented in the series as Gladys Russell. 

Works Cited

“A Forgotten Vanderbilt Finally Gets Her Due.” Garden & Gun, 12 Oct. 2018, https://gardenandgun.com/articles/forgotten-vanderbilt-finally-gets-due/. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.

Faeder, Eric. “Women’s History Month Spotlight: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont.” Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service), 31 May 2021, https://www.nps.gov/vama/blogs/womens-history-month-spotlight-alva-vanderbilt-belmont.htm. Accessed 10 Mar. 2022.

Krick, Jessa. “Charles Frederick Worth (1825–1895) and the House of Worth.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wrth/hd_wrth.htm (October 2004)

MacColl, Gail, and Carol McD. Wallace. To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey). Workman Publishing, 2012.

Sorry about the delay.  I try to have the podcast out on Monday but this week got away from us. (The dog ate my homework.) Good News! Sandra is here to stay!   

Marian Anderson was an amazing contralto best known for her concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after the DAR refused to allow her to sing at Constitutional Hall.   There were 75,000 people-black and white. Follow this link to hear her amazing voice at this concert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAONYTMf2pk

I have to clarify a few dates.

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870) This bill mandated that "all persons born in the United States," with the exception of American Indians, were "hereby declared to be citizens of the United States." The legislation granted all citizens the “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property.” https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-Civil-Rights-Bill-of-1866/

The Civil Rights Act:
This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=100

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Some drinks were consumed and you can hear the wine flowing out of the bota bag, but no fear.  I gave Haley and our friend Sandra all the details on Nellie Bly and had a few laughs along the way.   Have a drink with this one.

Shout out to Ali, Maddie, Corynn, and Bell-you know who you are.  You rock and I love you! 

Here are some of the sources I used. 

Bylines:  A photobiography of Nellie Bly.  Macy, Sue. National Geographic, Washington D.C. 2009.

Escaping The Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
6.4
1 h 28 min
2019
13+
Starring Christina Ricci, Judith Light, and Josh Bowman. A reporter has herself committed to investigate the deplorable conditions in a notorious Woman's Lunatic Asylum. Based on a true story.
DirectorsHoward Braunstein Films
GenresDrama
SubtitlesEnglish [CC]
Audio languagesEnglish
https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Madhouse-Nellie-Bly-Story/dp/B07PFGFQSS
(From Amazon)


10 Days in a Madhouse
6.2
1 h 49 min
2015
R
In 1887, at age 23, reporter Nellie Bly, working for Joseph Pulitzer, feigns mental illness to go undercover in notorious Blackwell's Island a woman's insane asylum to expose corruption, abuse and murder.
DirectorsTimothy Hines
StarringCaroline Barry, Christopher Lambert, Kelly LeBrock
GenresDrama
SubtitlesEnglish [CC]
Audio languagesEnglish
https://www.amazon.com/10-Days-Madhouse-Caroline-Barry/dp/B01ETZKLHS


Nellie Bly: Pioneer of Undercover Journalism
176,204 viewsFeb 5, 2018
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She put herself in danger in the pursuit of a good story. She uncovered wrongs committed in society. She traveled around the world, and she did it all in a time when women weren’t expected to do anything beyond get married, have children, and take care of their home. 
Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Jamie Carter Logan
Producer - Jack Cole
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

Welcome to episode 5!  Haley tells us about the social worker, activist, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams. (She is not related to Abigail Adams.) She started a settlement house in Chicago and it is still helping the underprivileged today.  Pop in your earbuds, turn on your smart speaker, have a drink, take a walk whatever you need to do to have a relaxing half hour with this Glorious Gal. 

Just a heads up before you listen.  We do talk about suicide attempts and completion of suicide.  Stop listening at the 24 minute mark.

 Be patient with us, we are still learning how to podcast.  Sometimes our sound isn't great.  Hang in there with us as we are only on episode 6 and we can only get better.  

Grading is a huge time consuming event.  Either you take time during the school day  and get it done like Sandra does.  Then you can go home and spend time with your family.  Maybe you like to go to the library or back to school on the weekends so you can have peace and quiet and total focus like Haley does.  Either way we have some tips and tricks along the way to help you with grading.  

Here it is.  Finally, the final episode of the life of Abigail Adams.  It is short and to the point.  Definitely a quick listen. Tune in next Monday when we hear our first episode from Haley.  Until then I hope you enjoy Abigail and her many contributions to the lives of women today.