85: Amazing Marie-Grace Makes a Difference

Dolls of Our Lives

Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney

Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It's late summer, 1853, in New Orleans. Marie-Grace and Cécile are
still in the thick of the Yellow Fever epidemic. Madame Océane is
fighting for her life. Thankfully, Marie-Grace is prepared to take on
wedding planning, performance art, nursing, and orphan caretaking.
Amidst all this, Marie-Grace's father has established a fool-proof
communication system using a single slate outside his door. What could
go wrong? Well, to quote Kris Jenner, "just a lot." Soon enough,
Marie-Grace fears that she will have to leave her beloved city along
with her family and friends. Thankfully, Dr. Tad/Dr. Dad continues his
neglect and Marie-Grace gets to stay. We consider the compressed
timeline of this series and recent feminist takes on scammers.

Time stamps:
2:16- 3:50 We discuss Investigation Discovery+ shows
3:52 - 9:30 Bridgerton, Inventing Anna
9:30-11:00 - March Madness
11:12 - end - Marie Grace Makes a Difference

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0:00.0	So we are in the throes of March Madness and sadly, I do not mean a competition about the March
0:05.5	Sisters. I believe there is basketball occurring. Is that correct? There is sure basketball is
0:10.9	occurring. It's our time. Okay, so it's Women's History Month. It won't be by the time you hear
0:15.6	this, but it is a Women's History Month eternal in our heart. That's right. So with that, I flipped
0:21.9	open this book, which is about Marie Grace ostensibly, but it got me thinking, what if from a sweet
0:28.1	16, we had a kind of March Madness final for just of characters from Marie Grace. Wow, that
0:36.4	truly is an elite eight, you might say. I don't know how many of them are in your top four.
0:41.2	Who Marie Grace? Yes, sadly no. So of her family and family is being defined very broadly here,
0:48.7	we have Argos, the dog, sister Beatrice, who I think doesn't know Marie Grace from a hole in the
0:54.9	wall, her friend Cecil Ray, Mademoiselle Oshan, who is, I would say, not family yet, but perhaps soon,
1:02.9	Levinia, who's not even a friend, Mrs. Curtis, Uncle Luke, and Papa, who's making that top four
1:10.3	of these nine? This is a really tough, this is a tough competition, and I just, you know,
1:17.6	this is I know who's your number one. Who's my number one? Mrs. Curtis with Sister Beatrice
1:24.0	in a close second, and I'm going to put Argos in fourth just because Papa's not even making top 10.
1:30.7	No, he sure not. I'm going to exclude Cecil, but she would be in my top four. I feel like if I'm
1:37.0	not having Marie Grace, it's unfair to have Cecil, like that's cruel. I'm going to take Levinia
1:42.3	for truly the most like from nowhere pointless cameo and just sort of queen behavior and miss
1:48.4	exclusive me from the narrative during the narrative. So I think that's somewhat iconic. So
1:53.2	I'm taking them as my top, my final four. I love it.
1:56.2	Well, welcome everyone to American Girls The Podcast. This is the podcast where we're
2:19.4	reliving the American Girl Series book by book. I'm Mary. I'm still making a difference. I'm
2:25.0	Allison. Wow. Wow. At least one of us is and God bless. How are you still Allison or making a
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