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1-800-1800
Brought to you by Mandylion®, 1-800-1800 is your guide to 19th-century history, art, literature, culture, and scandal. Each episode, we dial into a random year of the 1800s to gab about the chaos that shaped the modern world. Hosted by Madeline Porsella and Mabel Taylor, two Victorian Nightgown Girls and historians of art and design, 1-800-1800 delivers rigorous research with a healthy dose of gossip. So pick up the phone, the nineteenth century’s calling! More Mandylion®: mandylionpress.com…
Episodes
1-800-18001-800-Sense and Sensibility
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Hello dolls. Welcome back to 1-800-1800, everyone’s favorite guide to the…
1-800-18001-800-The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Happy halloween girls and ghouls. Welcome back to 1-800-1800. On today’s special haunted episode we are joined by the writer Grace Byron to discuss Edgar Allan…
1-800-18001-800-1800: Maria Edgeworth invented political economy
Yes, you read that episode year correctly! We are taking it back to the first year of the nineteenth century this week. For this major year, we read Jeanna…
1-800-18001-800-Salter House
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This is a very special episode of 1-800-1800 because it is our first ever…
1-800-18001-800-1894: Queen Victoria Woodhull
Welcome back to 1-800-1800. This week, we are talking 1894, the year that Victoria Woodhull (Spiritualist medium, Wall Street broker, Presidential candidate…
1-800-18001-800-Gangs of New York
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Welcome back to 1-800-1800. On this week’s special bonus episode, Madeline…
1-800-18001-800-1872: Abby and the chocolate factory
Welcome back to 1-800-1800! This week we are joined by the one and only Abigail Sandler, architect and author of Price Upon Request, a newsletter exploring the…
1-800-18001-800-The Awakening
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com “It was not necessary for a writer of so great refinement and poetic grace…
1-800-18001-800-1891: basketball is our favorite sport
This week, Harry Krinsky of Nothing But Respect joins us to talk about the invention of basketball. We discuss the rules of the game (you won’t believe how…
1-800-18001-800-The Tenant of Yesteryear
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com On this week’s bonus episode of 1-800-1800, the girls dare to discuss a…
1-800-18001-800-1849: A quick history of the state of California
On this week’s episode of 1-800-1800, Mabel goes home…to California. After a brief debate about what sport the Forty-Niners play, the girls discuss the history…
1-800-18001-800-Late Fame
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week, Mabel and Madeline read Late Fame, a perfect little novella…
1-800-18001-800-1861: Death Becomes Her w/ Jessica DeFino
This week on 1-800-1800, we’re discussing life’s inevitabilities—death and unrealistic beauty standards—with Jessica DeFino of one of our all time favorite…
1-800-18001-800-Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week, Mabel and Madeline dig into the painting that has appeared most…
1-800-18001-800-1876: America, the sequel
Yoohoo, Welcome to America, the sequel. In this episode we look back at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. We talk about the giant engines…
1-800-18001-800-1776: The Shot Heard Round the World
I’m a yankee doodle dandy and you’re on the precipice of learning all that Mabel and Madeline have to say about the American Revolution in this special episode…
1-800-18001-800-1871 (feat. Sara Hinkley)
This week we are very excited to welcome the brilliant Sara Hinkley onto 1-800-1800 to discuss her forthcoming novel The Red Sacrament. Sara’s brilliant debut…
1-800-18001-800-1841: London's Charivari
Madeline and Mabel discuss the founding of Punch Magazine, the most popular satirical magazine of the 19th century, and muse on its enduring influence. The…
1-800-18001-800-The Princess Cassamissima
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Book Club Alert !! This week the girls recap Henry James's The Princess…
1-800-18001-800-1787: Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
On this week’s episode, Madeline takes us back to her material culture roots to tell the story of the British abolition movement through one object, the…
1-800-18001-800-The Gadfly
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Mandylion now has a book club at McNally Jackson called the Minor Works…
1-800-18001-800-1844: A telegraph and a train walk into a bar
What Hath God Wrought, indeed! This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel tells Madeline what a telegraph is. She starts in 1792 with the one and only Claude Chappe, a man…
1-800-18001-800-1823: On the origin of an American religion
This week, Madeline and Mabel discuss the origins of Mormonism and how its founder, Joseph Smith, continues to influence the modern day iteration of the…
1-800-18001-800-Wuthering Heights
In this special episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel discuss Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as well as Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation starring Margot…
1-800-18001-800-Death by Lightning
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Good morning starshine! President James Garfield says hello! This week on…
1-800-18001-800-1852: The Princess Who Ate a Glass Piano
This week on 1-800-1800, Julia Carpenter, who writes the brilliant Substack “A Woman to Know,” joins us to discuss the Bavarian princess who was convinced that…
1-800-18001-800-The Testament of Ann Lee
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Last week, Mabel and Madeline braved a blizzard to go see The Testament of…
1-800-18001-800-1832: The Great Wave
On the first episode of the new year, Mabel and Madeline consider the tortoise and discuss the sweatshirtification of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. We go deep on…
1-800-18001-800-Frankenstein
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week Madeline and Mabel read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and discuss…
1-800-18001-800-1803: On Meat Beating & Batteries
This week on 1-800-1800, Madeline guides us through the horrifying world of early 19th century meat batteries and an experiment to raise a malefactor hanged at…
1-800-18001-800-Elsie Venner
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss their new book Elsie…
1-800-18001-800-1882: Orlando and the Origin of Species
Today a man told me that pugs are “inherently naked” and now I can’t think about anything else for long enough to write an episode description. I hope you…
1-800-18001-800-The Hill of Dreams
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com In this special episode of 1-800-1800, the Mandylion girls discuss…
1-800-18001-800-1840: Everything you never wanted to know about queen victoria's wedding
This week’s episode goes out to our book designer Emily and her HUSBAND Jerónimo. They inspired this deep dive into the most important wedding of the 19th…
1-800-18001-800-The Morgesons
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com Hey beautiful people! 1-800-1800 is back with this month’s bonus episode…
1-800-18001-800-1865: But it's not about the civil war
1-800-1800 is back baby. This month Mabel and Madeline talk about everything in 1865 except for the death of Abraham Lincoln. That means we’re talking…
1-800-18001-800-1800: The Substance
This episode of 1-800-1800 is SPECIAL. Instead of tackling one year of the long nineteenth century, we spend an hour discussing one single mediocre film: The…
1-800-18001-800-1845
1-800-1845 has moved to Substack and things are about to get real spooky. Catch us this month discussing all the weirdest that 1845 has to offer: the…
1-800-18001-800-1897: The Gay Nineties
1-800-1800 is on a freakin' roll! This episode we tackle 1897—the year that gave birth to One or Two, one of our two new books OUT NOW, for sale at…
1-800-18001-800-1862: The Morgesons
1-800-1800 is back with a bang. This episode we tackle 1862—the year that gave birth to The Morgesons, one of our two new books OUT TODAY, for sale at…
1-800-18001-800-1846: The Wombat's Lair
Welcome back to 1-800-1800, where each episode we call up a random year of the 19th century and discuss what the heck happened. Today's episode explores 1846…
1-800-18001-800-1805: They pooped their way west
Welcome back to 1-800-1800, where each episode we call up a random year of the 19th century and discuss what the heck happened. In 1805, it turns out Lewis &…
1-800-18001-800-1814: A Million Words for 'Pirate'
In this month's episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel call up 1814 to learn about Byronic pirates and Jane Austen novels. Listen in to hear us speculate…
1-800-18001-800-1899: Bad Girls Go Everywhere
In this month's episode, Mabel and Madeline call up 1899—the nineteenth century's answer to y2k. Learn everything you never wanted to know about drugs, yellow…
1-800-18001-800-1886: Anarchy on La Grande Jatte
In this month's episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel call up 1886 to learn about the Haymarket Affair and pretty wallpaper. Listen in to hear all about…
1-800-18001-800-1851 : Reading Queen Victoria's Diary
In the inaugural episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel call up 1851, one of the most important years of the century. Learn everything you never wanted to…