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05/01/2025

🚨Listeners Poll🚨

Who would play Mrs. Mandelbaum the best? As Margalit Fox mentioned in my most recent episode on Mrs. Mandelbaum, there’s a possible tv series in the works around this fascinating but much forgotten historical woman. Who do you want to see play Mrs. Mandelbaum?

Comment below!

02/01/2025

🚨New Episode🚨The year was 1850. Manhattan was thriving, beginning to urbanize and expand in new ways. In lower Manhattan, a woman named Fredericka Mandelbaum moved into the neighborhood of Kleindeutchland (later known as the Lower East Side) to start a new life. Few could have guessed that out of the teeming streets of Little Germany, one of the most infamous underworld figures of the era would be born out of an unassuming Jewish housewife named Mrs. Mandelbaum.
For 25 years, Mrs. Mandelbaum controlled a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise. She has been mainly lost to history…until now.

Continue listening as I discuss this fascinating and much-overlooked woman with Margalit Fox, author of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss.

https://shows.acast.com/wickedwomenthepodcast/episodes/mrs-mandelbaum

Image: “Portrait of Madame Leopold Stern” (1879) by Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat

29/12/2024

in 1721, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson is born. Later known as Madame de Pompadour, she will rise to become one of the most influential royal mistresses at the French Court.

While the s*xual relationship between Madame de Pompadour and Louis XV only last a few years, she continued to Louis XV’s closest friend and advisor until her death.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3T5MqQflm8ainzCcayeJlA?si=iB6_viECTSSasGSwTzBCdQ

04/12/2024

🚨 We’re back! 🚨
Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, Clyde Barrow…these are just a few of the most recognizable American gangsters, men who robbed, killed, racketeered, and launched themselves into legend. But what of the women who stood by these men’s sides and at times, exceeded the men’s criminal abilities?

In today’s episode, I will highlight several powerful women from the criminal underworld: Kathryn Kelly, Bonnie Parker, Stephanie St. Clair, Virginia Hill, Geri Rosenthal, and Liz Renay. Joining me for a conversation is Lissa Townsend Rodgers, the author of the recent book “Shameless: Women of the Underworld” who will share insights about these remarkable women and more.

https://shows.acast.com/wickedwomenthepodcast/episodes/women-of-the-criminal-underworld

20/11/2024

“A signature always reveals a man’s character.. And sometimes even his name!” - Christian Caluya

Signatures have been an integral part of societies for much of human history. It has been a way for people to leave an indelible mark of their existence.

I remember as a child trying to perfect my signature for the day I might perhaps be famous! Here are some signatures of our “wicked” women.

Madame de Pompadour
Katherine Howard
Queen Mary I
Anne Boleyn
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna
Empress Elizaveta Petrovna
Margaret Beaufort
Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford
Margaret of Anjou
Madame du Barry

17/11/2024

In 1558, Queen Mary I dies after a brief illness. Her sister will ascend the throne as Elizabeth I.

1563 Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is published, beginning the legacy of Bloody Mary.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZI5tqEgqszDTjJS0yW4Z4?si=mlUnl5xvQZKeLJXLliq2Ug&t=2132

03/11/2024

A quote from my fabulous and fascinating discussion with author Erin Fetterly. Listen to more quote worthy moments in my latest episode, found wherever you get your podcasts.

26/10/2024

🚨New Episode🚨 Just in time for Halloween, an episode dedicated to discussing the lives and legacies of Britain’s female murderers.

Women throughout history have been seen as the weaker s*x both physically and emotionally. While women have been blamed for the fall of men since Eve in the Garden of Eden, their crimes are usually centered around s*xuality. When women murder, this breaks all the expectations of what women are capable of. Rage, violence, cunning, and vengeance are traits often prescribed to men. In the new world of women’s history, these women complicate the narrative by providing anything but a role model for future generations. But they still provide an essential part of human history. Continue listening as I am joined by Erin Fetterly, author of the recently published book Women Who Kill, as we discuss some of Britain’s most notorious female murderers.

https://shows.acast.com/wickedwomenthepodcast/episodes/women-who-kill

24/10/2024

“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” –Elvis Duran

With Halloween fast approaching many people will be preparing their Halloween costumes. Throughout my life, Halloween has been an opportunity to flex my history nerd muscles, dressing as an array of historical figures.

In honor of Halloween, I’ve included photos of some fun, wacky, frustrating, historically accurate, etc costumes of our “wicked” women.

Anne Bonny
Anne Boleyn
Agrippina
Jezebel
Jane Boleyn
Bonnie Parker
Mary I as Bloody Mary (again never anything different 🙄)
Wu Zetian
Alexandra Romanov (which there was a full view of this costume)
Hatshepsut
Mary Magdalene
Katherine Howard from Six
Madame du Barry

02/10/2024

🚨New Episode🚨 Margaret Tudor was the eldest daughter of King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York and the elder sister of King Henry VIII. Margaret witnessed some of the most significant moments in her father’s later and her brother’s early reigns. A story filled with political intrigue, personal tragedy, and drama, Margaret has been largely left on the sidelines in later interpretations of Tudor history. Seen as insignificant at best and whiney and manipulative at worst, historian .porter7 latest book, The Thistle and the Rose: The Extraordinary Life of Margaret Tudor looks to remedy that legacy and bring to light the truly remarkable life of Margaret Tudor. Keep listening to learn more.

https://shows.acast.com/wickedwomenthepodcast/episodes/margaret-tudor

Featured guest: Historian and author Dr. Linda Porter

01/10/2024

in 1553, the eldest daughter of King Henry VIII makes history and is crowned Queen Mary I. She will be the first woman to rule England uncontested in her own right. But as we now know Mary I is only the beginning.

20/09/2024

🚨New Episode🚨Pirates have been a part of the public imagination since ancient times but what is known about the women who chose that life for themselves? In today’s episode, I will analyze pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read; two women who have become more mythical than factual. Joining me is historian Dr. Rebecca Simon, an expert on all things pirates and author of Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/17ZZARTOCbM1D72wjHfaHP?si=3xsvmKAUQZiuZUb6TAwP3A

07/09/2024

in 1533 Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth. She will one day become Queen Elizabeth I and give her name to the Elizabethan Era.

01/09/2024

🚨New Episode🚨The name Hatshepsut has become synonymous with female power in ancient Egypt. But her daughter Neferura has been largely lost and forgotten. In today’s episode I will be speaking with Malayna Evans, author of the novel Neferura: The Pharaoh’s Daughter in which she tries to recapture the voice of Neferura and the turbulent world she lived in. Listen to my discussion with Malayna as we cover her book, the process of writing about women with very little records left behind, and female bodily autonomy. As Malayna describes “Peace, it seems, never lasts for women who wield power in the open.“

https://shows.acast.com/wickedwomenthepodcast/episodes/the-bounds-of-female-power

19/08/2024

in 1917, Alexandra Romanov and her family arrive in the Siberian city of Tobolsk. Alexandra wrote to her friend Anna Vyrubova, “I have not been out in the fresh air for four weeks…we think of you, not always without tears”

10/08/2024

Happy Book Lovers Day!

Here are some of my favorite books both fiction and non fiction for a number of our wicked women.

Do you have a favorite that isn’t listed? Let me know!

03/08/2024

Jezebel may be one of the most instantly recognizable wicked women, but little is known about her real story. Jezebel’s story has been told for centuries in a very specific way, her name has become a byword for over-s*xualized, ambitious, nasty women who don’t know their place. But as the late Lesley Hazelton stated in her intro to her fabulous book Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen “How a story is told is as important as the content of the story itself.”

29/07/2024

I know I’m a day late but still worth remembering that on July 28th, 1540 the 49-year-old Henry VIII married teenage Katherine Howard at Oatlands Palace in Surrey.

Within sixteen months, the teenage Katherine Howard would be executed by her husband for accusations of infidelity.

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