{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61168564926b7100124612a7/63971f6eb39f5700101e5ab4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Special Episode: Five Little Peppers","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61168564926b7100124612a7/1670848082319-53230e4e0cf30e3e75eb276308fe2c23.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Last year, we had Professor Thomas Ruys Smith with us to talk about his book <em>Christmas Past</em>. Keeping in the festive spirit, Tom has returned, and with co-conspirator Professor Hilary Emmett to do a special holiday reading of a Gilded Age classic <em>Five Little Peppers</em>. This was one of the biggest stories of its day and it launched Margaret Sidney's career into the stratosphere of best known authors. In this episode Hilary reads a chapter from the republished story.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.ueapublishingproject.com/product-page/five-little-peppers-how-they-grew-by-margaret-sidney\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Sidney, <em>Five Little Peppers and How They Grew</em> (UEA Publishing Project, 2022).</a></p>","author_name":"Michael Patrick Cullinane"}