Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
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Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
Love, Death, and Frankenstein: The Haunting Genius of Mary Shelley
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Love, Death, and Frankenstein: The Haunting Genius of Mary Shelley
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. This week, Lucy takes the mic for a Halloween special steeped in candlelight, tragedy, and creation — the story of Mary Shelley, the brilliant mind who breathed life into Frankenstein and, in turn, changed literature forever. She wasn’t just the mother of science fiction — she was a woman bound by love, loss, and the ghosts that never left her side. In an era that could have destroyed her soul, Mary found power in pain and creation in chaos. In ...
Speaking of her
Send us a text Welcome back to Speaking of Her. For our Spooky Season Finale, Lucy leads us into one of the most haunting corners of women’s history — where industrial progress, poverty, and silence collided in the shadows of Victorian London. We’re telling the story of the matchstick girls — the young women who worked long hours in match factories, dipping sticks into white phosphorus that slowly poisoned them from the inside out. What followed was a terrifying and agonizing condition called...
