The Speckled Monster Cameos in a Presidential Debate
Senator Rand Paul gives a shout-out to The Speckled Monster during the Republican Presidential Debate, September 16, 2015
Read MoreZabdiel Boylston, in my dreams
No portrait of Zabdiel Boylston survives, but this is how I like to imagine him…
Read MoreLady Mary: Beauty and Brutality
Richardson’s 1726 portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes hides her smallpox scars but paints in slavery…
Read MoreThe Turkish Bath by Ingres
Ingres’s painting of luxuriant nudity began as an awareness of absence. As a young man, the painter read Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s dream of unscarred skin…
Read MoreJennifer on All Things Considered (NPR)
Jennifer talks about “The Speckled Monster” and smallpox with Michele Norris on NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Read MoreJennifer on The Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
Jennifer talks about smallpox and “The Speckled Monster” with Diane Rehm on NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show” (June 20, 2003)…
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