Hear ye, hear ye! An olde friend of the show has returned! Amy is joined in the studio by the original co-host of The Gibson Girl Review, Katja Labonté, for our first-ever medieval story! But what will the medieval history major and the medieval fiction aficionado make of Howard Pyle’s 1891 armor-rattler, Men of Iron? Tune in to find out! Plus Amy explores Howard Pyle’s legacy as an artist in the next installment of our Golden Age of Illustration history segments.
Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Richard Harding Davis
For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
St. George for England by G.A. Henty
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple by Joanna Davidson Politano
The Pax Series by Sara Pennypacker
The Parish Orphans of Devon Series by Mimi Matthews
Louisa May Alcott
What Katy Did by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Golden Age of Illustration, medieval history, library cards, Victorian travel, historical romance, knights, Quakers, Teddy Roosevelt, injustice, unions, the Brandywine School, the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art, Drexel University, the strenuous life, rugged individualism, vengeance, Scribner’s Magazine, Chadds Ford, bullies, imagination, Henry IV, Henry V, the Battle of Agincourt, Ecclesiastes, coming of age, jousting, damsels, and pirates.
