SideStreets S2E8 - Marianne North’s suburban jungle

We continue the story of Emma Hamilton in this episode — she becomes even more famous, even more influential, even more powerful, then things go horribly, disastrously wrong . . . Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.uk/ Support Us on Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=84135705

To celebrate the holidays, we dig up some old alleyways about graves and memorials. You'll encounter missing teeth, plastic swans, a stone tent, and a faithful companion. Visit Our Website: https://www.sidestreets.co.uk/ Support Us on Patreon: patreon.com/user?u=84135705

Over the next two episodes we look at the life and work of one of England's most underrated cultural figures: Emma Hamilton. Watch her create a style, an artform, a freeing revolution, then watch her life disintegrate into exile, poverty, and premature death.

This month, we wade and scramble from the Swan Theatre, where Queen Elizabeth I was dangerously satirized, to Holland's Leaguer, where her successor James I went for a disreputable good time. Then we speculate a bit about what happened to all these edgy amusements. Visit Our Website: https://www.…