S20E22: Gilded Age Chronicler Edith Wharton
Trashy Divorces
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Edith Wharton came by her subject matter the old fashioned way: she was born into a prominent New York City family, and was subjected to the mores of the city's high society circle from birth. This did not suit the plain, brainy young Edith even a little bit, much to her mother's horror, but Edith did eventually submit to an extremely unhappy marriage to a diagnosed megalomaniac (!), which ended in, you guessed it, a trashy divorce.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships, and our season 20 finale. |
| 0:08.2 | My name is Stacy. |
| 0:09.5 | Thanks for joining us for today's tale of marital misadventure, Gilded Age style. |
| 0:15.2 | Alicia, what do you have for us today? |
| 0:16.6 | Hey, friends, Alicia here. |
| 0:18.3 | This week I am bringing you the roller coaster world of the Gilded Age chronicler, Edith Wharton, with one trashy divorce, one great love of her life, one trashy affair, and a whole lot full of stories and connected spider webs. |
| 0:36.6 | So much is packed into this one to enjoy as we head out of the |
| 0:41.2 | season with all the gratitude to you for making this year over at trashy divorces just incredible. |
| 0:48.5 | Absolutely incredible. Before we kick off this gilded age tale, we do have a magic mirror here with some huge thanks to give. |
| 0:57.9 | With big love to our most recent supporters over at patreon.com slash trashy divorces. |
| 1:04.1 | Thank you to Carol Emma M. Ainsley M. Francis M. Nekita M. They're probably not all siblings, but they are not. All different last |
| 1:13.5 | names, but a lot of Ms today. Katie W. and Nora B. Thank you so much for joining us at Patreon. |
| 1:19.9 | We really appreciate y'all and all of our magical Patreon people in that community. |
| 1:25.9 | We have just a few more thanks to give to all of our cheery, trashy elves out there. |
| 1:31.1 | We have loved your holiday cards and greetings. |
| 1:34.4 | Our fridge is absolutely decorated now. |
| 1:37.5 | Christina and Mary and Margot D. and Nancy B. and her crew. |
| 1:42.3 | Caroline and Lindsay and Cindy and Chelsea and Photo Boy 2. |
| 1:46.1 | Rob and Michelle and Amy and Jeremy. |
| 1:48.6 | Sarah A. and Rachel O. |
| 1:51.2 | Holy cats. |
| 1:52.4 | I feel like Stacey, I've stashed another stack somewhere around. |
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