Hear ye, hear ye! An olde friend of the show has returned! Amy is joined in the studio by the original co-host of The Gibson Girl Review, Katja Labonté, for our first-ever medieval story! But what will the medieval history major and the medieval fiction aficionado make of Howard Pyle's 1891 armor-rattler, MEN OF IRON? Tune in to find out! Plus Amy explores Howard Pyle's legacy as an artist in the next installment of our Golden Age of Illustration history segments.

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Other books and authors mentioned in this episode include:

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Richard Harding Davis

For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

St. George for England by G.A. Henty

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple by Joanna Davidson Politano

The Pax Series by Sara Pennypacker

The Parish Orphans of Devon Series by Mimi Matthews

Louisa May Alcott

What Katy Did by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

Other topics and shout-outs in this episode include: the Golden Age of Illustration, medieval history, library cards, Victorian travel, historical romance, knights, Quakers, Teddy Roosevelt, injustice, unions, the Brandywine School, the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art, Drexel University, the strenuous life, rugged individualism, vengeance, Scribner's Magazine, Chadds Ford, bullies, imagination, Henry IV, Henry V, the Battle of Agincourt, Ecclesiastes, coming of age, jousting, damsels, and pirates.