What really happened between Angelica and Hamilton? Did she really ask her sister to "lend him to me for a little while"? Why did Eliza sign her name to the Federalist papers? Did Angelica get a little too close to Jefferson? What about all the Schuyler siblings who didn't make the musical? Join me in conversation with the Schuyler sisters' Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Amanda Vaill for a look at the real stories inside America's most famous love triangle.

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On this episode:

• Isabelle Roughol - Host

Jump to:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (01:51) - Failing the Bechdel test
• (04:40) - Catherine and Philip Schuyler, a productive marriage
• (06:42) - The story of Dutch colonisation in the Hudson Valley
• (10:28) - Romance, drama and theatrics: The Schuyler family's big feelings
• (13:41) - Education and why the Schuyler girls wouldn't have learned Latin
• (15:45) - Angelica's elopment and deceptive husband
• (23:39) - Angelica's pragmatism
• (24:44) - How Eliza meets Hamilton (not through Angelica)
• (30:00) - A forbidden love
• (34:40) - Ad break
• (34:41) - Did Angelica heighten the Jefferson-Hamilton feud?
• (40:11) - What actually happened between Angelica and Hamilton?
• (41:29) - Angelica's politics
• (43:49) - Eliza's role as Hamilton's intellectual sparring partner
• (50:39) - Eliza's widowhood

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