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“I'm Nancy Glass, host of the burden of guilt season 2 podcast.”
This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. Late one night, Bobby Gumpride became the victim of a random crime. The perpetrator was sentenced to 99 years
until a confession changed everything. I was a monster. Listen to burden of guilt season 2 on the iHeart Radio App. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to stuff you missed in history class.
A production of iHeart Radio. [Music] Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry. Today's episode is on journalist and writer Elizabeth Bizzland.
And I moved her up to the top of my short list because of her trip around the world which started in 1889. Somehow I got it into my head that this trip involved a hot air balloon. And I don't know everybody else, but there have been
some moments lately when the idea of getting into a balloon and just floating away. Having a break from everything going on. That has sound very appealing. There were no hot air balloons on this trip.
It was called a flying trip for its speed. Not for its altitude. There was also no balloon travel in the partial inspiration from this trip, which was Jules Burns 1872 novel around the world in 80 days.
Hot air balloons didn't start showing up in around the world in 80 days until movie adaptations. The book No Balloon Travel. I say partially because it was Nelly Bly, who started an attempt to beat the fictional record
and set in that book when Elizabeth Blyzlin started to trip in the opposite direction. A lot of the more recent writing about Elizabeth Blyzlin frames this entire story. Her story of her life in relation to Blyzlin.
Like all the way through. Or it's focused mostly on the trip. And it juxtaposes these two women. But Elizabeth Blyzlin had a whole career outside of this trip around the world.
And it was one that was mostly totally disconnected from the kind of stunt journalism that this trip was part of. Elizabeth Blyzlin was born in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana on February 11, 1861.
That is in Southern Louisiana. It's about a hundred miles west of New Orleans.
Her parents were Thomas Shields Blyzlin
and Margaret Cyrilla Browns in Blyzlin.
Thomas had trained as a doctor,
“but when Elizabeth was born, he wasn't practicing medicine.”
He came from a wealthy slave holding family that owned property across the region, and he had purchased Fairfax plantation in 1858. It was struggling in the wake of a hurricane and the panic of 1857.
So Thomas was pretty focused on turning it around. By the time Elizabeth was born there, it's output had searched. Blyzlin enslaved about 120 people, so the Blyzlin family's wealth came from that forced labor.
For more than a year after the start of the civil war, the enslaved workers at Fairfax plantation kept up a really robust output of sugar,
and that was in spite of increasing disruptions
to supply and shipping lines. But the new spring of 1862, the United States Army cut off the region's access to the Mississippi River,
“which was a really primary shipping route.”
The Confederate Army started fortifying positions around nearby Bayou Tesh, and that included Earthwork fortifications at a fort known as Fort Bisland. One of the major battles in this area
was the Battle of Bisland, which took place on April 12th and 13th 1863. By the time that happened, Elizabeth's mother had taken Elizabeth and fled to Natchez, Mississippi, to stay with family.
Elizabeth's father had joined the Confederate Army,
where he served as a doctor. He was eventually captured at the siege of Vicksburg and was parole after the Confederate surrender on July 4th 1863. The Civil War ended in 1865,
at that point, Elizabeth was four. We don't have a lot of other detail
“about Elizabeth's life during these years.”
Her 1903 novel, a candle of understanding clearly draws some inspiration from her early life and from her family's return to Louisiana after the war. But this is also a work of fiction, and its main character's life
goes in a different direction from her own. It's tricky to puzzle out how much of this book might be a retelling of her own experiences. It also incorporates a lot of the racist language of the period that it's depicting,
and it's very obviously influenced by the lost cosmithology of the Civil War, which was simultaneously inaccurate and really popular, when she wrote this book. Some of business-other writing describes
slavery as a centuries-long injustice that was contrary to the nation's founding ideals of liberty and equality, but it is hard to get a sense of what her actual opinions were about all of this as an adult,
at least based in the written material of her that I was able to read. We do know, however, that the business lives changed after the war ended. Business enslaved workforce had been freed
and the sugar fields at Fairfax plantation had been torn up in the course of various military actions. For comparison, the plantation's sugar production in 1869 was only about 35% of what it had been before the US Army advanced into the area in 1862.
Thomas Bisland could no longer make his payments on the property and he had to turn it back over to Judge Joshua Baker, who he had purchased it from. The terms of their retrocession agreement gave Baker the rights to any compensation
that might be made for the damage, not Bisland. Although Baker was also a slaveholder, he had remained loyal to the United States during the war, and he had strongly advocated against Louisiana's Session from the Union.
Because of this, Baker was eligible for compensation for $300 for every enslaved person on the plantation who had been freed, he also served as governor of Louisiana during reconstruction. Thomas Bisland, on the other hand, wasn't eligible for anything,
and he mostly became known for having previously been one of the south's most prominent landowners. But the glimpses we get of Elizabeth's young life from her own writing essays that are directly about herself, not novels, suggest that she grew up bright
and engaged in spite of the family's change circumstances. Here's how she described herself in the preface to her essay collection at the sign of the hobby horse. That collection was published in 1910. "As soon as our ticket speech was at my command,
it was my practice to catch and mount bareback any small wild hobby which might happen to graze in the vicinity,
With beating heart and flying hair
to ride it round and round the narrow enclosure of my immature ideas." In her essay collection,
“the secret life being the book of a heretic which came out in 1906,”
she writes about teaching herself French while churning the butter so that she could read the entirety of Rousseau's confessions in its original language. And she did that because Shorjelli had called this the most interesting book that she knew. It turned out that Elizabeth loathed Rousseau,
but after suffering through all four volumes of the confessions, she wound up with a passable knowledge of French, she also sold the butter to make a little money for the family, which included her parents and at least five siblings. She also started writing poetry and submitting it to the New Orleans Times Democrat
under the pseudonym BLR-Dane. She wanted to keep this a secret to the point that she walked four miles to mail her poems from a different post office than their local one, with the hopes that they wouldn't be connected to her. The style of her writing made the editor think that the poems must have been written
by an older gentleman from England. Elizabeth's mother had also been submitting poetry to the newspaper,
“but she was not disguising her identity,”
and an editor eventually wrote to ask her to see if she knew who this man might be, so to seem like he lived in a neighboring town. This is the best sitcom plot of all time. Eventually everyone put two and two together,
and in 1881, when she was 20 years old, Elizabeth Bisland was offered a job working for the Times Democrat. Later on in her life, she described her transition into journalism this way, "Almost before I was grown, I was thrust out of leisure into the life of journalism.
I did reporting and wrote verse, book reviews, and stories of all sorts and descriptions. One piece of reporting that stands out in my memory is a supper given to Wachie Miller in New Orleans, which I attended as a reporter,
and where I was never once,
made to realize that I was the only woman present. Wachie Miller was only one of the poets and writers that Bisland met while she was living in New Orleans. Another was Greek writer and translator left Cardio Hern, who had immigrated to the United States in 1869.
He had first arrived in New Orleans as a political correspondent for the Cincinnati commercial in 1876, covering the presidential election. He eventually started working at the Times Democrat, which is where he met Bisland.
Hern might be the subject of a future episode. He's pretty interesting. That might be a good October episode, because he had a strong interest in ghost stories and the occult.
Yeah, that's also some of his published work. Hern and Bisland had a lifelong relationship. One that was intense and maybe even obsessive on his part. And it seemed to be even more so when they were not in the same place. He clearly saw her as something of amused.
Her feelings are not quite as clear. Her side of their correspondence has not survived, and when she edited and published letters of his after his death, she did not really comment on their contents about her. Elizabeth's work as a journalist is what led her to taking her trip around the world,
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To quote from an interview, Elizabeth Bislint gave later on, quote after some years in New Orleans, I decided to come to New York. I arrived with $50 in my pocket
and was advised by Mr. Chester Lord, who was everything that was courteous, considerate, and charming to go home. Finding that I was bent upon staying, he helped me to get work and accepted himself.
The first thing that I had published here.
So, Mr. Lord was managing editor at the New York sun and that first thing that he published was a brief sketch of a funeral. Bislint went on to say, "New York proved a great opportunity.
My work was accepted by Puk, though Mr. Bunner, under the impression that I was a man, did return my first article on the score that it was too masculine. The cosmopolitan, Harper's Bizarre,
and other leading magazines." That quote was from a two-part article by Julia Artut Wilder in the bookman called Southern Women in New York. That was published in 1904,
so it was roughly 20 years after Bislint moved there. This piece was about the numerous women who moved from the south to New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to try to make their livings as writers or journalists.
The article profiled several of them, including Bislint, and walked through what the trajectory was like for most Southern women who arrived in the city without an established relationship
With a newspaper or publisher there.
They would submit articles and stories
“to an assortment of newspapers and magazines”
to try to build a more ongoing stream of work based on their early acceptances. But a lot of women found that those early successes did not turn into a steady writing job. So, Tyler also wrote about related jobs
that these women might also be fit for, like readers for magazines and publishing houses, editors and literary advisors. By the time, Tyler wrote this piece,
which again was like 20 years after Bislint had come to New York, Bislint had become a success. But her early experience after arriving in New York around 1887,
paralleled Tyler's description of what a hopeful writer or journalist to be should expect. She submitted pieces to a range of periodicals
and some of them were accepted and published,
“but it was harder to turn that into a steady job”
when she did get a steady job. It was not as a writer or a reporter. It was as literary editor at the Cosmopolitan, an illustrated monthly magazine. Her work as a literary editor
did allow her to write. She was responsible for a monthly review of recently published books titled In the Library. And it ran under an illustration of a reader sitting
in front of a fireplace in a home library book in hand, with a quote from Edmund Spencer's "The Fairy Clean" on the mantle. In 1889, some of her other pieces in the Cosmopolitan were the studios of New York, cooperative housekeeping in tenements
and the New York Flower Market. Much of her work was published without a by-line. Elif Cadyo Hurn came to visit her in New York in 1889, and he wrote a letter to physician
and likes a co-ographer George M. Gould, saying quote, "She is a sort of goddess here. Keeps the Southern Salon. It is hard to get to talk to her.
“She is a witch turning heads everywhere,”
but some of her best admirers are afraid of her. One told me he felt as if he were playing with a beautiful dangerous leopard, which he loved for not biting him. As for me, she is like hashish."
On November 14th, 1889, the New York world announced that Nelly Bly would be trying to travel around the world faster than the fictional character of Philly as Fog in Jules Verns around the world in 80 days.
John Brisbane Walker, the owner of the Cosmopolitan and Bisland's boss, saw this headline and thought it could be an opportunity for his magazine. So the Cosmopolitan was only three years old,
and when Walker bought it in 1889, it was struggling. It had a circulation of only about 16,000 copies a month. On the other hand, Joseph Pulitzer had bought the New York world in 1883,
and it was on its way to becoming New York's most red, daily newspaper. It was on its way to becoming the first to reach
a circulation of one million.
Pulitzer had turned to sensationalism, and sometimes misleading reporting to try to get an audience that was a style that would become known as yellow journalism, and that had worked.
Walker was trying to do something similar with the Cosmopolitan, although without offending the sensibilities of its more high-brow literary audience. An industry publication called The Journalist
described Walker's changes as the magazine as, quote, "timeliness and dignified sensationalism." The magazine circulation did seem to be growing, and Walker thought sending a conventionally pretty lady reporter of his own
to try to beat Nelly Bly, could bring in even more readers. Here is how Elizabeth Bisland described learning that this was going to be her next assignment, quote, "The very first intemation I received
of the coming thunderbolt out of the serene sky of my existence was a hurried and mysterious request at half past 10 o'clock that I would come as soon as possible to the office of the magazine of which I was one of the editors.
My appetite for mystery at that hour of the day
is always lamentably feeble,
and it was nearly 11 before I found time to go and investigate this one, although the office in question was only a few minutes walk from my residence. On arriving, the editor and owner
of the magazine asked if I would leave New York that evening for San Francisco and continue from there around the world endeavoring to complete the journey in some absurdly inadequate space of time."
She went on to say, quote, "If my appetite
for mystery that hour is not strong, the appetite at 11 in the morning for even the most excruciatingly funny jokes may be said to actually not exist.
“And this one, I remember bored me more than most.”
But in the course of half an hour, I had become convinced that the editor really wished me to make the attempt, and I had earnestly endeavored to convince him that I meant to do nothing of this sort.
To begin with, I didn't wish to.
The second place, guests were coming to my house to tea
on the following day. Thirdly, I was not prepared in the matter of appropriate garments for such an abrupt departure, and lastly, but most weightily, I foresaw the notoriety that an effort
to outdo the feet of Jules Verne's hero was likely to bring upon me. And to this notoriety, I most earnestly objected." In spite of all of those feelings,
I've earned boarded a train to San Francisco about six hours after her boss gave her this assignment. As Dellie Blye was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean,
“Disneyland and Blye were not the only people”
to try to make this journey. In the years, just after Jules Verne's novel was published, but most of the other people who tried were men. Both publications were trying to reclaim some of the heyday of 19th century travel writing.
Because of the travel schedules and the limitations of communication systems in 1889, it wasn't possible for either woman to write and file stories during the journey. The world dealt with this with Dellie front page coverage,
giving Blye's likely location in itinerary, and maybe a map of where she probably was, and running contests, like having readers' guests exactly when she would arrive home. They also published an interview with Jules Verne,
and various songs and poems about Nelly Blye. Cosmopolitan was a monthly magazine, so it could not do that kind of daily coverage. The timing of all this meant that it could not even announce Disneyland's trip in its own pages
“until she had already gotten back from it.”
Instead, Walker tried to bet an editor
from the world $1,000 that Disneyland would finish her journey first,
the editor turned that down. He also tried to get other newspapers to cover what Disneyland was doing, which was most successful in San Francisco since she actually had a stop there.
Newspapers were a lot more eager to cover Blye, but Disneyland got some publicity from publications that framed it as a race between the two women, like Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, which published an illustration of the two women
in January of 1890 that framed them as rival tourists. Blye and Disneyland each wrote accounts of their voyages after returning home, publishing them in the world and the Cosmopolitan. Blye got started right away,
and the world published her story over four Sunday editions. Blye's whole story was out there within a month of her return, and quickly published as a book. She also went on a lecture and publicity tour
to talk about it. Disneyland, though, tried to distance herself from publicity afterward. She had said from the very beginning that she did not want this notoriety.
She finished her journey on January 30th, 1890,
and the first installment of her account of it
appeared in Cosmopolitan's April issue. From there, she covered one stage of the journey every month until October, a book incorporating all of it was published as seven stages of flying trip
around the world a year after she returned. Blye's and Disneyland's accounts are so different from one another. This reflects each woman's sensibilities and those of the publications that they were writing for.
Blye's are much more sensational with a lot of reference to how many well-wishers turned out to greet her and wish her well on her journey whereas, "Bislands" are more restrained and often quite poetic.
So for example, here is what Blye had to say about her crossing the United States from West to East on the last leg of her trip. Quote, "I only remember my trip across the continent as one maze of happy
greetings, happy wishes, congratulating telegrams, fruit, flowers, loud cheers, wild her raws, rapid hand shaking and a beautiful car filled with fragrant flowers,
attached to a swift engine that was tearing like mad through flower dotted valley and over snow-tipped mountain on, on, on it was glorious
a ride worthy of a queen. She ends with, quote,
"The station was packed with thousands of people
and the moment I landed on the platform
one yell went up from them
“and the cannons at the battery and fort-green”
boomed out the news of my arrival. I took off my cap and wanted to yell with the crowd, not because I had gone around the world in 72 days, but because I was home again." Meanwhile, since "Bisland" made her trip
in the opposite direction of Blye, her last stage was by sea. And she wrote of approaching New York City "The water has smoothed itself into a bay and a huge grey woman holding in a uplifted torch
awaits our coming." The immigrants regard her wonderingly, the symbol of liberty held aloft and a benignment countenance turned towards all the outer world. We are by the shores of Staten Island.
A pretty English girl who has braved the winter storms to follow her new husband to a foreign country remarks surprisingly that all this looks much like England. Evidently having expected log cabins in the country town.
But I have no time to be amused at her ignorance. I am saying joyously to myself, "Is this the hill, is this the Kirk, is this my name country?" Suddenly a great flood of familiarity
washes away the memory of the strange lands and people I have seen and blots out all sense of time that has elapsed since I saw all this. I know how everything,
the streets, the houses, the passers by, are looking at this moment. It is, as if I had turned away my head for an instant and now looked back again. My duties, my cares, my interests,
which had grown dim and shadowy in these last two months, suddenly take on sharp outlines and become alive and real once more. I feel as if I had but sailed down the bay for an hour and was now returning.
“Yeah, that bit about, is this the hill, is this the Kirk?”
That's from Rhineb of the ancient mariner. People did not recognize it. As far as the race aspect of this trip went, Nellie Blie did not even know that another reporter had been sent to try to beat her
until almost 40 days into her journey when she passed through Hong Kong just a few days after Bisland did. Blie was trying to beat Philius Fog's time with a goal of 75 days and Bisland was trying to beat Blie's time
because that was her assignment. Bisland was on track to do that, but after changing train cars at four in the morning so that she could make a connection to a fast ship called the Transatlantic in France,
an agent from Cook's tourist bureau and Paris told her that she had already missed her boat. This was not true. By some accounts, the ship had been paid to wait for her and by others, the captain was interested in her pursuit
and so he took it upon himself to try to hold the ship for her either way though. When she thought she had missed it, she made other slower arrangements. In Bisland's words,
"The cause of this false information
was never satisfactorily as ascertained.
It however succeeded in linketing the voyage for days." So her round the world trip took 76 days while Blie took 72. We will get into Bisland's life after all of this after a sponsor break.
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His job was literally to seduce the wives of powerful Americans. And he was really good at it. You probably won't believe it either. Okay, I don't think that's true. I'm telling you, because that was a spy.
Did you know Dahl got cozy with the Roosevelt's? Play poker with Harry Truman, and had a long affair with a congresswoman. And then he took his talents to Hollywood, where he worked alongside Walt Disney,
an Alfred Hitchcock, before writing a hit James Bond film.
“How did this secret agent wind up as the most successful children's author ever?”
And what darkness from his covert past seaped into the stories we read as kids? The true story is stranger than anything he ever wrote. Listen to the secret world of Roldahl on the iHeartradie app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton Eckard, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. Unfortunately,
it didn't go according to plan.
He became the first bachelor
to ever have his final rose rejected. The internet turned on him. If I could press a button and rewind it all I would. But what happened to Clayton after the show? Made even bigger headlines.
It began as a one night stand,
Ended in a courtroom,
with Clayton at the center of a very strange paternity scandal.
The media is here. This case has gone viral. The dating contract. Agreed to date me, but I'm also suing you.
We're in such part.
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Aquaries is all about freedom-loving, and different perspectives. And I find a lot of people with strong placements in Aquarius, like our misunderstood,
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He really has taught me to embrace people sleeping in different rooms on different houses in different places, but just an embracing of the isness of its own. If you're navigating your own transformation
or just want a chart-side view into how a leading artist integrates astrology, creativity, and real life,
this episode is a must-listen.
Listen to this viewer daughter podcast, starting on February 24th on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your podcast.
In the middle of the night, Sasuke awoke in a haze. Her husband Mike was on his laptop. But was on his screen, would change Sasuke's life forever.
I said, I need you to tell me exactly what you're doing, and immediately, the mask came off. You're supposed to be safe.
That's your home. That's your husband. So keep this secret for so many years. He's like a seasoned pro.
“This is a story about the end of a marriage,”
but it's also the story of one woman who was done living in the dark. Your danger is person who prays un vulnerable with trusting people. You're trying to make a love and good.
Listen to the trail season five on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Next Monday,
our 2026 iHeart Podcast Awards are happening live in South by Southwest. We'll honor the very best in podcasting from the past year, and celebrate the most innovative
talent and creators in the industry. And the winner is... Creativity, knowledge and passion will all be unfolded display. Thank you so much.
I Heart Radio. Thank you to all the other nominees. You guys are awesome. Watch live next Monday at 8 p.m. Eastern 5 p.m. Pacific Free,
at feeps.com or the Veeps app. As we said earlier, Elizabeth Bisland had known that a trip around the world made by a woman reporter
would bring her fame and notoriety which she absolutely did not want. The idea of the lady stunt reporter became a whole genre of late 19th century journalism
and that was largely because of Nelly Blies influence. But Bisland really tried to distance herself from that. It does seem like her writing
about her trip brought new readers to the cosmopolitan. At least its circulation did keep going up, but reached about 60,000 by 1892
and it just kept growing from there. After returning to the US, Bisland went to the UK and lived there for a year. While she wasn't doing
the kind of lecture tours that Blie did, she had made enough of a name for herself that she was able to connect with writers while she was there.
One was Welsh author, Rota Brotton. The two of them collaborated on a novel called A Widower Indeed.
That was published in 1891. Bisland also met Reddard Kipling in the two exchange letters afterward. While Bisland was in the UK,
lawyer and industrialist Charles Whitman Wettmore traveled there to proposed to her. They had met at a ball
back in the United States. Their engagement was announced in August of 1891 at which point he was president of the North American company,
which was the primary owner of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Edison company,
The Oregon Transcontinental company.
They got married quietly on October 6th, 1891. A piece on the wedding
that ran in the society column
of the Chattanooga Daily Times described Bisland as famous because of her race with Nelly Blie, but quote,
"This Bisland is entitled to fame on much higher grounds. She is one earned laurels in the literary field as the most graceful and graphic writer
and as a shining star in society." This marriage made Elizabeth very comfortable, financially.
That 1904 profile of southern women writers included a photo of the expansive drawing room at Apple Garth,
which is the estate that wetmore built on Long Island at Apple Garth, she continued writing.
In 1894, her 30-page illustrated essay "The Art of Travel" was published in The Woman's Book,
dealing practically with the modern conditions of home life, self-support, education,
opportunities, and everyday problems. She wrote in this piece that she intended this travel advice for women
of moderate means, meaning women who had enough money to travel but not so much money
that they didn't have to think
about economy or could travel with a whole staff to deal with their day-to-day needs. During what travel
is like in today's era of cars and airplanes and I don't know rollerboard luggage.
She writes that in her opinion and experience a woman can travel comfortably
with one trunk, one dressing bag, and one shell strap. She talks about the merits
of the newly introduced bureau trunk which had drawers in the top lid. The dressing bag
was for toiletries and small articles and she also recommends getting one that was big enough to hold night dress
slippers and addressing gowns so that you could comfortably refresh yourself and have something to sleep in
if your trunk was stowed somewhere. The shell strap held what a traveler would need to deal
with the weather, so an ulcer coat an umbrella and overshoes all rolled together
in a traveling rug or a carriage blanket just basically
something to stay warm under.
It was not common to travel alone, especially not women who were truly wealthy. But Disneyland argued that
in reality there was "nothing" to prevent a woman from seeing every civilized and even semi-civilized
country in the world without other protection than her own modesty and good sense.
This sounds somewhat progressive until she gets to her reasoning, which is that most men
are chivalrous and that in the event of a disaster everyone will be focused on the safety
of women and children. That's cute. She also says that when women have painful experiences
traveling alone, it is their own fault nine times out of ten and she recommends that solo women
travelers ensure a good voyage through good manners, modesty and quote
"cool and nimble wit" and recognition that the woman is not the center of the world and her own discomforts
and needs do not take priority over all the other solo travelers. When I first read that,
I was like, "Okay, thank you, civilized and semi-civilized." That's a little problematic,
but I see what you're getting at and then I got to the part where she was basically like if you have a bad trip
and your woman it's your own fault. And I was like, "Oh, that's because men are
totally cool." "Men will be great and as long as you're great to them, then you'll have a good
time." I was like, "Wow, what a tangle this essay is." Liz,
we gotta have a talk. Yeah. She does have other practical travel tips in this as well
for women in general and for women traveling alone like she recommends selecting seats and state rooms
very well in advance. Carrying letters of credit rather than large amounts of cash keeping valuables in the hotel
safe. And if you really do, need to carry a lot of money around with you for some reason,
and put it in a silk bag around your neck. In 1903, Bisland started working on something
that surpassed her trip around the world and how well known it was, at least for a while.
That was the two-volume life and letters of left-cardio herner.
In 1890, herner had gone to Japan on assignment for harpers,
but he had left the magazine to pursue his own interests. A year later, he married
Koizumi Setsu, who became his creative partner. Five years after that, he was adopted by a Japanese family
so he could become a Japanese citizen. And he took the name Koizumi Yakumo. Hern is
not nearly as well known today as a lot of his contemporaries, but at the time, he was one
Of the best known writers
in English. He introduced a lot of information about Japan and Japanese culture
to English-speaking audiences.
Although in more recent times, he has been criticized for exoticizing Japan. He died in 1904,
and, in spite of having become very well-known in the US and Japan,
he did not leave much money for his widow and their four children. "Bisland made an agreement
with Koizumi Setsu, saying that she would publish this work and Koizumi would receive all
of the money from it." Then this became complicated when black journalist
Alethia fully said that she and hern had got married in 1874
“and that they had never gotten divorced.”
"Fully filed suit for the proceeds from the book, but this marriage was found
to be invalid because it had been illegal under Ohio's anti-missed
nation laws when it happened Ohio was, of course, where they had gotten married.
"Bisland glossed over all of this and her work on him."
In addition
to the books we've already mentioned,
"Bisland Published Essays in a range of magazines and other publications." For example, her 1910 SA
societies for mining one's own business was published in the North American Review.
It was about efforts to bring the kinds of services that are available in many cities to rural communities.
Mining one's own business meant "to see that our taxes are properly spent, that the elected officials
do their duty that our roads are kept in order, the public health guarded,
the laws obeyed, the schools maintained at a high standard. The beauty of the countryside
preserved and increased and that every one of us has an opportunity for helpful pleasure.
She described one such society as having three membership tiers based on income
with annual dues of $25 $10 or $5 but everyone
having the same voting rights
and eligibility for office
in the society regardless of how much dues they paid. The society was maintaining libraries,
establishing kindergarten, hiring a nurse to care for people who didn't have the means and providing other services.
Business husband died in 1919. Her last collection of essays the truth about men
and other matters was published in 1927. It's title essay unsurprisingly from that title
was focused on gender. She wrote quote whatever has been recorded of the human mail. His deeds,
his aspirations, his nature, needs, and qualities has been written, said and sung by himself.
Whatever has been told of woman, her faults, her vices, her limitations
and more especially her low-quality and vociferousness has also been set down by the same hand.
The record of the race hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves has been the story of facts and conditions
as the mail saw them or wished to see them. So far we have not heard it all with the truth may have seemed
as seen through the consciousness of the other sex. Later on in this essay she wrote
quote perhaps no secret can be kept forever. Here and there of late the hitherto
so secretly guarded feminine tongue amidst murmurs of revelation. Generally accepted beliefs
imposed upon the race by the constantly reiterated masculine assertions are
along with every creed being finally cross-examined. One of the essays
in this book is straight forwardly antisemitic. In this essay
she acknowledges that Jewish people have faced persecution for centuries. But then
she frames that persecution as being the inevitable result of their being parasites.
She tries to make the argument that quote intrinsically the parasite is neither reprehensible or
contemptible but acts by the laws of its nature. But this is an
anti-Semitic and frankly offensive trope that a lot of people
were writing about in the 1920s and 30s
after bizlins lifetime this kind of reasoning
was part of the underpinning of Nazi Germany's racial policies
and the Holocaust. Alism of bizlin died of pneumonia on January
6th 1929 at the age of 67. She died in Charlottesville, Virginia
and was buried with her husband at Woodlawn Sanctuary in New York.
In a bituary ran in the New York Times,
which did not mention her trip around the world. But
did list seven stages among her
public works. The terms of
bizlins will established the Charles
and Elizabeth Wetmore Fund. A charitable
fund to provide care for people with tuberculosis
and other respiratory diseases and disorders
“and to fund research into such disorders”
in and around
The city of New Orleans.
Her book
Three Wise Men of the East
was published posthumously by the University of North Carolina Press. It drew
from her travels in Asia and other research to write biographies
of three figures from three countries. Shajahan fifth Mughal Emperor
of India Chenlong Manchu Emperor of China and Toyotomi
Hedioshi Samurai and Dimeo, who is described as one of the great unifiers of Japan.
The Press reissued this book in 2018 and describes bizlins
as demonstrating quote "great sensitivity to the distinguishing national characteristics
and interspirit of the countries themselves." Although bizlins did not want
the kind of fame that had come from her trip around the world
for the cosmopolitan it did help propel the career that she had after that for the first time
regarding that magazine in 1905 John Brisbane Walker sold it to William Randolph
hurst to took it in a very yellow journalism direction as part of his
rivalry with Pulitzer it then went through another big shift in 1965
when the Helen Gurley Brown
became chief editor and made it into the cosmopolitan women's magazine of today.
Do you have listener mail for us? I do have listener mail.
The listener mail is about something that Helen I
actually discussed off screen it is from Jen and the title of it is French
pronunciation fun and Jen wrote Dear Holly and Tracy
I adore the show and have listened for a decade now
I love how you approach a wide variety of topics and always
with research and compassion it's a breath of fresh historical air
please keep being brilliant. I am very proud of the show that she has been
earthquake episode. I was reminded of a comedy set in French by
Eddie isard has this brilliant set from her show in France, which she
performs in French. It was filmed while she still publicly identified
as a man and a transvestite. She talks about how the word for transvestite in
French is pronounced as travesty, which in English means catastrophe. It is so
funny. I can't find it on YouTube, but the whole show is an extra
on one of her DVDs. As pet tax, please find and close
a picture of Nelson the grumpy old shetland. He is nearly
30 and like staying out alone in his field shelter
aka his man shed and watch the world go by.
He also loves kisses all the best.
Gen. We have a picture of Gen being
kissed by a shetland pony. It is
extremely cute. What an adorable the horse pony.
quadruped cutie pie. I found this very funny and it
compelled me to go look part of this set in French
is from the dressed-to-kill special which I
then wound up watching at my desk and laughing at and feeling
very proud of myself that I do know enough that I can follow the parts of it that are
in French in the actual comedy set. It does not include the part
about just Susan Catastrophe which is also very funny. So
Holly and I had a conversation after the Lisbon
earthquake episode about how in French which a lot of people
in Morocco speak catastrophe is pronounced Catastrophe I
do not think that's why the the speaker
that we were talking about in the scene set it that way
because I think that speakers first language was Spanish and Spanish
does pronounce the E in Catastrophe although not
quite as hard as American student
English but it is very funny
and a great chance talk about
Eddie is hard because we
love her find her hilarious she's
the most marvelous so thank you very much for this
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if it's allowed feed him
something that he likes to eat. So
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