With an assist from @juliendorra, I think I have an update to one of the side conversations that came from this incredible anti-iceland article yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1110931008772280320 …
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If you'll ~recall~ The NYT in 1874 suggested something called "the brooklyn scandal" as far more worth of Americans' attention than the entire nation of Iceland (along with local elections). But what, we wondered, was this "brooklyn scandal"?pic.twitter.com/3AAnZ2kBHl
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turns out, it's an affair! A highly publicized affair! Henry Ward Beecher's affair (sorry, alleged affair) with Elizabeth Tilton, his BFF's WIFE, and the scandal to which the Times obliquely referred was Mr. Tilton's filing of adultery charges against old Hank in 1874.pic.twitter.com/JcA0thKFk4
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much detail (600 pages worth) and many olde photos here:https://twitter.com/juliendorra/status/1111253777171079168 …
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a 1954 New Yorker article (!) lays out much of the juicy detail, including appearances by itinerant psychics, feuding members of the suffrage movement, and the phrase "Mrs. Woodhull delivered her first blow at a spiritualists’ convention in Boston."https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/12/the-beecher-tilton-case-ii …
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As best i can tell, the original essay in which Mrs. Woodhull laid out her case (thus prompting Mr. Tilton to sue Beecher) does not exist online. But it was, let's say, WIDELY read. It does not, however, appeared to have slowed Beecher's affections.pic.twitter.com/0UB2NCPfxA
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this last screenshot, and my last plea to you to go read the whole thing, is to say the '54 new yorker article ALSO INCLUDES TESTIMONY of the trail, the official Brooklyn Scandal. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1954/06/12/the-beecher-tilton-case-ii …pic.twitter.com/XAjwSmG3pm
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this is such a fantastic book and if you've never read it, go leave work now and do thathttps://twitter.com/RKWinvisibleman/status/1111267319832035329 …
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