Ep. 28: Deer Catharine

This month we're going further back than this podcast has gone before: decades before Mrs Beeton, there was Catharine Parr Traill, a woman whose letters we study and whose symbolism we have a hard time coming to grips with.

To everyone's surprise, our fashion segment this month actually covers fashion: we're looking at the late Regency period and the relatively loose dresses that came with it.

In another podcast first, we're also taking a stab at some meaty dishes. Both Torey and Steph fry up some venison steaks, and we talk about the history and ethics of game meat in Canada. Less controversially, we also serve up some cranberry sauce and tarts, to mixed reviews.

What we're obsessed with in history

Steph: An old favourite: Lucy Worsely, an English historian and author, and two of her books: Jane Austen at Home: A Biography and Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days that Changed Her Life. Get in that library queue, these books are going fast.
Torey: A new novel with fun nods to female scientists in history: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (the sequel/companion to The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, also a fun read).

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Check our facts:

The female emigrant's guide, and hints on Canadian housekeeping by Catharine Parr Traill, 1854. Available through Archive.org.

Fashion

From fireplace cooking to maple, survival guide for women immigrants to 19-century Canada still rings true, by Laura Brehaut in the National Post, June 2017
Errington, Elizabeth Jane. Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840. Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press, 1995. Available through Google Books.
Women's Fashion during the Regency Era (1810s to 1830s) by Carmen Cadeau, January 2018
Hiawatha First Nation: History

Food

Consuming Environmental History: Rethinking Wild Game Meat by Mike Commito on ActiveHistory.ca, January 2012.

Hunted game is mostly illegal, but chefs argue for the vibrant taste only found outside the farm by Jon Sufrin in the Globe and Mail, April 2016.

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