Hello, friends, and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Heather. I am a storyteller who makes history accessible

because I believe it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe,

and being much more in touch with our own humanity. This is episode 22, I think. I really should look that up before I start to talk. I think that's where

we're at. And it's on Edmund Spencer and the Fairy Queen. I've been doing a couple of episodes

this past month on writers. We did Amelia Lanier. We did Philip Sidney. And, you know,

you kind of start to go down these rabbit holes and it turned into a rabbit hole of writers.

In February, we're going to do a rabbit hole of love. We're going to talk about relationships.

I did a fun anti-valentine Day episode a couple hole of love. We're going to talk about relationships. I did a fun anti-valentine

Day episode a couple of years ago that was inspired by Lady Gaga's bad romance and it was bad

tutor romance and was like the worst breakups in tutor history and the worst husbands and

relationships. But this month and February, all of the episodes are going to be on sweethearts and lovers

and all things heart-shaped and also Galantines and some of the best female friendships as well,

because those female relationships have always been of the utmost

importance in history as well. All right, but this episode we're talking about Edmund Spencer and

the Fairy Queen. I want to thank my newest patrons and YouTube members. Patrons and YouTube members get extra episodes. They get

extra chats. This week or next week we're having a patron only chat with Brigito Webster,

who wrote cooking with the tutors. They also get extra little mini courses depending on what level

they're out. They get all kinds of extra fun goodies.

So thank you so much to my newest patrons, Kim. We've also got Carrie, France, Jackie, Gretchen, Ursula, Margaret and Christina.

And then we also have over on YouTube, Danny, hi Danny, Jennifer, Alexandra, Edith, Catherine, the fabulous Teresa, Tiffany, Cindy, and Leanne.

So thank you so much, my dear friends, for joining and being part of this community.

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