106: Patreon Preview: All-of-a-Kind Sydney

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In 1951, Sydney Taylor introduced All-of-a-Kind Family to the world. Her novel about a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side in the early 20th century features five American girls: Ella, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte, and Gertie. These tight-knit sisters love to read, eat candy, and occasionally, dust for their mother. We talk about our (first) read of Taylor's book, which holds up all these years later as an absolute delight. We also discuss the biography From Sarah to Sydney (2021), by the late Jane Cummins and Alexandra Dunietz. How much of Sarah Brenner’s life was put into the all-of-kind-family? How did Sarah become Sydney Taylor? Join us in separating fact and fiction. (Episode originally released May 27, 2022)

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to dolls of our lives.
0:12.9	This is the podcast where we're reliving the American Girl series book by book.
0:17.6	I'm Mary and today we're going to bring you an episode from our Patreon.
0:21.6	This is a really great online community but also means of getting an extra episode from
0:26.6	us on a topic that we think lives within the world of the show.
0:30.6	In the past few months, for example, we've tackled a magic attic book.
0:34.8	Allison goes for the gold.
0:36.0	We read a really great memoir about genealogy called Ancestor Trouble, Selma Blair's
0:41.2	Autobiography, Mean Baby, The Novel, The Birch Bark Diaries, which I loved.
0:46.8	The musical 1776, a children's book on Watergate and so much more.
0:52.8	So for $3 a month, you can join our Patreon and get an extra episode and also access to
0:57.8	our Discord community, which I describe as a buddy list, but better, but updated.
1:04.2	I guess I'm just an elder millennial, like please don't judge.
1:07.5	But if you can get onto the Discord, you'll find a lot of great channels where you can
1:12.2	chat with people of similar interests.
1:14.6	There's meetup groups so you can make some IRL friends if that's your jam, who may have
1:19.4	similar interests.
1:21.3	There's a listener who started a book club.
1:23.0	There's a listener who runs a penpal program and periodically a crafting gift exchange.
1:28.5	There's a crafting channel, a queer channel, how culture channels, so many different things.
1:33.6	Like shout out again to the community who was with me on the day when we all live through
1:37.8	the question of whether or not Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine because that channel really
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