We’re back!! After a summer full of many ups and downs, Amy and Jacinta return to the studio with more than just a new old book review… it’s a new theme for the entire season! We are celebrating the Golden Age of Illustration with each episode of Season Four, and we kick things off with the rollicking 1905 romance Hearts and Masks by Harold MacGrath, illustrated by the one artist whose work is most often mislabeled as “Gibson Girls,” Harrison Fisher.
Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:
Husband Auditions by Angela Strong
Jen Turano
In the Bishop’s Carriage by Miriam Michelson
The Princess Aline by Richard Harding Davis
The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope
Topics and shout-outs mentioned in this episode include: Charles Dana Gibson, Gibson Girls, Harrison Fisher, Fisher Girls, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, Clara Bow, European travel, the Northwest Montana History Museum, the Humane Society, Harlequin cats, and hearing impairments.
