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What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to Jefferson? What about all the Schuyler siblings who didn't make the musical? Join me in conversation with the Schuyler sisters' Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Amanda Vaill for a look at the real stories inside America's most famous love triangle. ★ Support this podcast ★On this episode: Isabelle Roughol - HostJump to: (00:00) - Intro(01:51) - Failing the Bechdel test(04:40) - Catherine and Philip Schuyler, a productive marriage(06:42) - The story of Dutch colonisation in the Hudson Valley(10:28) - Romance, drama and theatrics: The Schuyler family's big feelings(13:41) - Education and why the Schuyler girls wouldn't have learned Latin(15:45) - Angelica's elopment and deceptive husband(23:39) - Angelica's pragmatism(24:44) - How Eliza meets Hamilton (not through Angelica)(30:00) - A forbidden love(34:40) - Ad break(34:41) - Did Angelica heighten the Jefferson-Hamilton feud?(40:11) - What actually happened between Angelica and Hamilton?(41:29) - Angelica's politics(43:49) - Eliza's role as Hamilton's intellectual sparring partner(50:39) - Eliza's widowhoodGet the book🇺🇸 Get the book in the US🇬🇧 Shop in the UK bookshop (Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)Click here to view the episode transcript.What do you think?Read & comment at broadhistory.comReply on BlueskyEmail me: [email protected]
