Hide Jewels In Your Wig Like A Lady, Then Walk Like An Egyptian

Send us Fan MailJess is back with another awesome historical woman, Lady Elizabeth Cathcart. She was locked away by her gold-digging husband for TWENTY YEARS when she refused to give up her jewels and her estate. But he got a healthy dose of karma in the end.Hids talks about the Egyptian craze that spiked during the Victorian age and has influenced so much in architecture, art, and design ever since, with another big spike in the 1920s with the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Jess’ Sources:https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/fermanagh/lady_cathcart.shtmlhttps://scamsnow.com/the-abuse-of-lady-elizabeth-cathcart-a-historical-romance-scam-story-2025/https://www.dib.ie/biography/maguire-hugh-a5358https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BU5NP6HJj/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_RackrentHids’ Sources:https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/exhibitions/napoleon-and-egyptomania-in-tennessee/https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2024/10/03/mummy-unrolling-in-nineteenth-century-britain-science-or-spectacle/https://www.thecollector.com/victorian-egyptomania/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bji99u/comment/em9gq51/?context=3https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/e3zzmv/what_kicked_off_the_egyptology_craze_in_the_18th/https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/the-curse-of-the-victorians-in-egypt-tourists-on-the-nilehttps://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9nbhwz/im_an_upperclass_englishman_in_victorian_england/Support the showJoin our Discord!