S8 Ep583: WEISBERG2.mp3 Weisberg details Mary’s growing unhappiness and physical fragility following multiple pregnancies and life at Waverly. The narrative shifts as Mary begins a secret affair with Peter’s brother, Edward, after a chance encounter. This betrayal
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WEISBERG2.mp3 Weisberg details Mary’s growing unhappiness and physical fragility following multiple pregnancies and life at Waverly. The narrative shifts as Mary begins a secret affair with Peter’s brother, Edward, after a chance encounter. This betrayal coincides with the tragic death of their infant daughter, Edith. (2)
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| 0:19.9 | I'm John Batchew with Barbara Weisberg. |
| 0:22.3 | Her new book is Strong Passions, a scandalous divorce in Old New York. |
| 0:26.7 | Mary and Peter, they come home to Waverly. |
| 0:32.1 | Mamie is born, their child in 1854. |
| 0:35.4 | And now they're living in the country, not isolated. The family is overrun |
| 0:41.3 | with servants. There's many horses. There are lots of carriages. Mary's family, the Stevens, |
| 0:47.9 | are in Manhattan and father gets more and more prominent so that Mary consoles him in the great panic of 1857. She's a strong |
| 0:58.8 | side, a strong daughter to John Austin Stevens. In this meantime, Mary's going through |
| 1:06.9 | births and miscarriages. |
| 1:16.0 | Barbara, forgive me if I don't have the chronology right, but Mamie is born in 54. |
| 1:17.7 | There's a miscarriage in 55. |
| 1:24.5 | They go overseas for two or three years, traveling Genoa, Rome, prominent family, visiting other prominent families, and there's another miscarriage in 57. I believe whether |
| 1:31.4 | it happens overseas or coming home. But none of this is unusual to your very careful research. |
| 1:38.6 | The marriage is substantive and supportive and busy in these years. Is that correct, Barbara? |
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