# Ruth Brandon

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The Turn of the Screw

Crazy, or crazy like a fox? A very Victorian fox who is still weirdly obsessed with children, but nonetheless, a fox? Find out what we thought as we discuss Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW, what exactly it meant to be a governess, and the Spiritualism movement of the 19th century. For more ...

Prison... foot fetishes... bondage blogs... and more

Katrina Ruth: Give them a chance to get on. Patrick Grabbs: Okay. I'm ignoring you then. Katrina Ruth: Usually, what I do when I go on is pretend that I'm doing something. But, I'm not really doing. I'm just pretending that I'm doing something. Patrick Grabbs: What's that? Katrina Ruth: So, ...

Resolve

Katrina Ruth: Welcome. Hi humans. What is happening? Interesting. Interesting. Very interesting. There's people. Hello to the people. Hi Kendra. Kendra, I feel like I haven't seen you in a long while. Katrina Ruth: I am doing the thing that you do when you go live, which is you just kinda fuck ...

Alexis Soyer

A brief look at the life of one of the first celebrity chefs

Houdini Among the Spirits

Just in time for Halloween! In the first of two parts, we will weave a kind of dual biography: Harry Houdini and the spiritualist movement. While Houdini is perfecting his craft to become the world's most famous illusionist, scores of Americans and Europeans are being drawn into darkened rooms w ...

13: Houdini + Sarah Winchester

CW: References to invasive medical exams (not graphic), alcohol use and alcoholism, death and child loss (not detailed), spiritualism and séance practices, accusations of fraud and public humiliation, and gender-based scrutiny and mistreatment. In this episode, Heather explores the surprising o ...

S9 Ep33: Did the sewing machine liberate women?

In January 1860 the New York Times gave its blessing to a new machine: the sewing machine. These "iron needle-women", it wrote, were the only invention that could be claimed “chiefly for women's benefit”. Sewing was women's work in the nineteenth century, rich or poor, and a machine could now ...