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Society's rules? Who needs them! A queen of reinvention, Lola Montez was a woman ahead of her time. Captivating audiences with her famous Spider Dance, Lola earned admirers, enemies, and more than a few scandals as she conquered Europe, America, and Australia. In her short life, she became a Countess, convinced a king to abdicate, and rubbed elbows with Europe's brightest talent.

Come along with us as we explore Lola's journey to define a life on her terms, no matter the odds, through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• Divine Lola: A True Story of Scandal and Celebrity by Cristina Morató
• Lola Montez: A Life by Bruce Seymour
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle

Digital Media:

• The Courtesan Who Almost Overthrew the Kingdom of Bavaria - The Story of Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/y8vjk49d)
• Lola Montez by Volbeat (https://tinyurl.com/3cejsbxd)
• Lola Montez: Actress, Courtesan, and Adventuress (https://tinyurl.com/4v4ad99j)
• Stuff You Missed in History Class: Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/3x3xc7bz)

Primary Sources:

• The Arts of Beauty or Secrets of a Lady’s Toilet with Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating by Lola Montez
• Autobiography, Part I & II by Lola Montez

Websites:

• Alexandre Dujarrier (https://tinyurl.com/4z5fybpc)
• Astroseek.com
• From Bavaria to Ballarat: wild times with Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/yapnsjsn)
• Home of Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/4jjwd9a5)
• Lola Montez (https://tinyurl.com/538ab2e8)
• Lola Montez: Beauty and Song in the Old West (https://tinyurl.com/tkzhx35y)
• Lola Montez Denies Conventions in Her Image by Julia G. Cohn (https://tinyurl.com/57ppu6zh)
• Lola Montez: The Fascinating Life of A Queen of Reinvention (1821-1861) (https://tinyurl.com/4fxva7ja)
• Today In History: King Ludwig I of Bavaria Abdicates His Throne During the Revolution (1848) (https://tinyurl.com/2cs7ey2h)
• The Top Ten Loves of Franz Liszt’s Life by Emily E. Hogstad (https://tinyurl.com/ttjwy3tb)

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On April 12, 1861 the Civil War began. The US Sanitary Commission knew volunteer nurses would be needed for aiding the Union wounded and dead. 27 year old Georgeanna Woolsey was trained as a nurse and wrote extensively on her experiences caring for soldiers during the bloodiest war in American history.

Come along with us as we use Georgeanna's writing as a lens to explore the Civil War, American memory, and gender roles through history and astrology.

Sources

Books:

• American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775-1917 by Army Center of Military History
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Battle of Gettysburg: American Civil War History by E.D. Garner

Digital Media:

• Blood and Glory: The Civil War in Color (Amazon Prime)
• Death and the Civil War (PBS American Experience)
• Greatest Civil War Battles (DVD Set)

Primary Sources:

• Gettysburg address delivered at Gettysburg Pa. November 19, 1863 (https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text)
• Letters of a Family During the War for the Union, 1861-1865 by Georgeanna and Eliza Woolsey, 1899
• Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All by Walt Whitman, 1867
• Three Weeks in Gettysburg by Georgeanna Woolsey, 1863

Websites:

• Abby Howland and J.S. and Georgeanna Woolsey (https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/abby-howland-and-js-and-georgeanne-woolsey)
• American Nursing: An Introduction to the Past (https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/american-nursing-an-introduction-to-the-past/)
• Astro-seek (https://www.astro-seek.com/)
• The Chaplain Kit: The Online Chaplain History Museum (https://thechaplainkit.com/chaplains/non-combat-ministry/hospitals/civil-war-hospitals/)
• Georgeanna Woolsey: A Day in the Life of a Northern Nurse (https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/georgeanna-woolsey-day-life-northern-nurse)
• Hourly timeline of Gettysburg (https://civilwartalk.com/threads/hourly-timeline-of-gettysburg.171749/)
• Little-known Civil War era collection: The United States Sanitary Commission (https://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/blog/little-known-civil-war-era-collection-united-states-sanitary-commission)
• The Nameless Grave---Identifying Civil War Dead (https://bit.ly/47HZekB)
• United States Sanitary Commission (https://bit.ly/4mymDtE)
• Women in Nursing During the Civil War (https://bit.ly/3HCwuzm)

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On July 9, 1553, 16 year old Lady Jane Grey learned she would become Queen after King Edward VI named her as his successor. Lady Jane, known as the 'Nine Day Queen', was later abandoned by her Privy Council as they flocked to Mary I's side. She was held in the Tower of London until her execution at 17 years old on February 12, 1554.

Come along with us as we untangle Jane's life from the succession crisis and martyrdom through history and astrology.

Sources:

Books:

• Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey by Nicola Tallis
• Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: 246. Lady Jane Grey by John Foxe
• A Hidden History of the Tower of London by John Paul Davis
• The House of Dudley by Joanne Paul
• Innocent Traitor by Allison Weir
• Lady Jane Grey by Hester W. Chapman
• Lady Jane Grey: A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives
• The Literary Remains of Jane Grey with a Memoir of Her Life by Nicholas Harris
• Making Women Martyrs in Tudor England by Megan L. Hickerson

Digital Media:

• England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey (Amazon Prime)
• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JirVfl8gsj8)
• King & Queens of England 5/8 - The Tudors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0YSvKHYlg)

Primary Sources:

• Ambassades De Messieurs De Noailles En Angleterre, Vol. 2 by René Aubert Vertot
• Annals of England to 1603 by John Stow
• Anonymous Narrative of Dowager Queen Katherine Parr’s Funeral & Burial in the Chapel of Sudeley Castle
• The chronicle of Queen Jane
• The Education of a Christian Woman by Juan Luis Vives
• Jane’s prayerbook (https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2021/02/lady-jane-greys-letters-from-the-tower-of-london.html)
• Letter from John of Ulm to Conrad Pellican, 29 May 1551
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 10 July 1553
• Letter from Ambassadors to Charles V, 16 August 1553

Websites:

• Astro-seek.com
• Bradgate Park (https://www.bradgatepark.org/)
• Contexts: Women in Power, An Open Companion to British Literature (https://pressbooks.pub/earlybritishlit/chapter/women-in-power-the-tudors/)
• Lady Jane Grey (https://www.tudorsociety.com/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey: The 'Nine Day Queen' (https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/lady-jane-grey/)
• Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide (https://www.ladyjanegrey.info)
• Syon Park (https://syonpark.co.uk/)

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