Author of seven pop history books. Married to @kibblesmith. Mom to a toddler. ‘Glitz Glam & A Damn Good Time’ Biography of Mamie Fish On Sale Now from Hachette.
‘Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time:
How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to Power’ is on sale now from @HachetteUS — here and wherever books are sold: https://t.co/1rWoCEN1wt
Sunny von Bülow was one of the wealthiest, most quietly extraordinary women in American society. Then her husband put her in a coma, went to parties, and the world asked what she had done wrong. https://t.co/KTiw5LNYmL
Every single woman had something mean to say about Pamela Harriman and she's the coolest person | can imagine.
Latest #SocialiteStudies column for @observer. https://t.co/qNg4ZViCID
She married a Churchill, charmed the men who ran the war and buried two husbands—then turned her Washington dinner table into the headquarters of the Democratic comeback. https://t.co/c57WXU6ggh
"I think there’s this idea that the arc of history always bends toward justice, and that’s very pleasurable. But I think it gives people the false impression that the arc keeps getting ever more liberal and ever more compassionate. It can swoop back." https://t.co/gaA4qndLyw
Sunny von Bülow was one of the wealthiest, most quietly extraordinary women in American society. Then her husband put her in a coma, went to parties, and the world asked what she had done wrong. https://t.co/KTiw5LNYmL
Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
It was such a treat interviewing my dear friend @jenashleywright for @observer Her new best-selling book, Glitz, Glam and a Damn Good time is laugh out loud funny & pertinent. The last pic is of Jen and me at the Frick and it’s also one of my favorites.
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I love doing book reviews for the @nytimes and I especially love it when I get to review something as good as Amanda Vaill’s new biography on the Schuyler sisters. It's a pleasure from start to finish. https://t.co/M9NzVRcikz
"A thoroughly fascinating biography, filled with Vaill’s signature warmth, humor and insight." — @nytimes
A stellar review of Amanda Vaill's 'Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution,' which she worked on as a @CullmanNYPL Fellow:
https://t.co/ChNMADNref
‘For all of her self-interest and avarice, Madame Restell does seem to have had one great and almost unheard-of quality in a 19th-century abortionist: she did not make a habit of killing her clients.���
Bee Wilson (@kitchenbee), in our new issue:
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Thank you to the London Review of Books (@LRB) for their write-up of #MadameRestell — "Slangy, but always entertaining" is, indeed, my vibe. https://t.co/Dyd7iGuUvn
they had abortion 150 years ago. 250 years ago. 1000 years ago. soranus of ephesus recommended silphium as an abortifacient nearly 2000 years ago. they knew
"439 - Snap Of A Bat”
On today’s episode, Karen and Georgia cover 19th-century abortionist Madame Restell.
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1. 1870s sketch of Madame Restell
2. One of Madame Restell's ads in the New York Times (1865)
3. Planned Parenthood
On this episode of Podcast Like It’s Double Features, historian/author @jenashleywright joins @pmiscove to compare/contrast The Handmaid’s Tale + Civil War.
We talk about the scary world we live in, and dystopian america on screen and off.
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The paperback of #MadameRestell is out! You can buy it. Or, if Trump wins again, you can live it. I am posing looking sad about this to make it clear I think that would be BAD.
Find it here or from your favorite local bookstore: https://t.co/F4cIGv68UO
‘MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist’ is on sale now here and wherever books are sold: https://t.co/Eph6tG4ra7
When attacked in the press, the infamous Fifth Avenue abortionist Madame Restell published her own retorts — today, Jennifer Wright suggests in her new biography, she “would be fighting on Twitter constantly.” It was, after all, free advertising. https://t.co/qYbgoCPXgo