Madeleine Smith & The Dangerous Game of Dating in the 19th Century

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dating in the 21st century can be a tricky path to manoeuvre, but in reality, the difficulties pale in comparison when compared to the complex etiquette and social pressures that one was doomed to follow in the Victorian period. One couple found this out in a unique way when their romantic love affair took a hard swipe left and turned into a tale of arsenic, scandal and mystery that could probably have been avoided had ghosting been a thing. SOURCES MacGowan, Douglas (2021) The Strange Affair of Madeline Smith. Polygon, London, UK. Phegley, Jennifer (2012) Courtship & Marriage in Victorian England. Praeger, Cambridge, UK. The Globe (1857) A Strange Story. The Globe, Sat 4th March 1857, p.4. London, UK ---------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that. Dublin Weekly Nation (1857) The Glasgow Poisoning. Dublin Weekly nation, Sat 11th July 1857, p.13. Dublin, Ireland.

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0:00.0	Dating in the 21st century can be a tricky path to manoeuvre, but in reality the difficulties
0:06.1	paling comparison when compared to the complex Attica and social pressures that one was
0:10.8	doomed to follow in the Victorian period.
0:13.7	One couple found this out in a unique way when their romantic love affair took a hard
0:18.1	swipe left and turned into a tale of arsenic, scandal or mystery that could probably have
0:23.0	been avoided, had ghosted him in a thing.
0:25.8	This is Dark History by The Facts, The Worse Than Fiction.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to Dark History's, I'm Ben as always, this is season 6, episode 16 I
0:41.6	do believe. Just a small bill thank you this week before we start. I just want to say thank
0:50.0	you to Craig, who sent me a book from The Amazon Wishlist, which I used quite a bit
0:56.0	for this episode, but also thank you for a very touching message that came along with
1:01.7	the book. I'm just glad that Dark History's can be something of an escape for people,
1:10.6	because it's an escape for me too, so I'm glad it kind of works out for everyone.
1:17.2	So yeah, thanks very much for that. Otherwise, coming up to October now, so we're getting
1:23.0	the kind of spooky season. And I guess I should probably start suggesting if you fancy
1:28.3	it, perhaps start sending in your stories for the Christmas campfire, which sounds like
1:34.7	a long way away, right? But I might as well kind of put the shout out for it now, because
1:39.0	it's only a couple of months before I start thinking about putting it together. So yeah,
1:42.9	I guess entries are open if you want to get your entry in for the Christmas campfire episode.
1:49.8	So yeah, if you can just go ahead and email contactatdarkhistories.com. But yeah, I guess
1:57.3	from now on, the entries are open until I guess sometime in December, I'll close the entries
2:04.9	off, but obviously that you've got plenty of time yet. But yeah, if you fancy it, I will
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