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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Adah Issacs Menken
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When Adah Isaacs Menken was a young woman she described herself. “I have always believed myself to be possessed of two souls, one that lives on the surface of life, pleasing and pleased; the other as deep and as unfathomable as the ocean; a mystery to me and all who know me. Today we will talk about the infamous actress, painter and poet, Adah Menken, had claimed to have been born in a half-dozen places. She told different stories of her life to different audiences. Adah Menken lived a short but remarkable life defying the convection of soc...