THE BOSTON BRAHMIN Ethel Gibson Allen

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Come with us to peak Gilded Age America! We'll watch a charmingly unconventional love story unfold, cure yellow fever, stare at some incredible wallpaper and explore fascinating reasons why women should NOT vote. Katie takes us on location to Ethel Gibson Allen's Boston mansion, now the Gibson House Museum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by the Women's History Initiative at the Utah Historical Society,
0:05.1	seeking to amplify women's stories and deepen our collective understanding of the many roles
0:09.7	women play in history.
0:11.5	And by our patrons.
0:13.5	Zeb Potter, Skylar Collins, Julie Gray, Bree Smith, Robin Brown, Kim Hockinson, Jan Elise Cannon, Jill Harrigan, Jamie Lang, Maria Sanchez, Heather
0:24.6	McKinnon, Valerie Jacobson, Chantelle Oliver, Caitlin McTaggart, and Molly Moss. Thank you so much for
0:31.4	being our patrons. We couldn't do it without you.
0:37.4	Hi, Olivia. Hi Olivia.
0:39.2	Hi, Katie.
0:40.3	Strap on your corset and lace up your boots because we're headed to the gilded age today.
0:45.7	Yes.
0:47.8	What a time to be alive.
0:50.1	A time when things were gilded, sparkly gold on the surface.
0:54.4	Yeah. Perhaps rotten surface. Yeah.
0:54.8	Perhaps rotten underneath.
0:57.7	But I think it would have been a pretty exciting time to be alive just because of all the new inventions and discoveries and just massive change, especially in America.
1:10.1	And the clothes?
1:11.8	Yeah.
1:12.8	So we're talking like 1870 to 1920-ish.
1:16.6	During the Gilded Age, the United States experienced the most explosive growth of any country in the history of the world.
1:25.0	And it wasn't a baby boom.
1:26.6	It was immigration. That's one of the things
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