Maddy Pelling
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6,688 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And there's a railroad that's now connecting Fall River to other towns and cities further inland.
So this is a really exciting place.
It's a something that's changing very rapidly and
Lizzie's family are part of this new emerging prosperous upper middle class.
And we're going to talk a little bit about who her family are.
But first of all, I want you to describe the photograph that we have of the family home.
And the thing that I want to say about this before you do that is that
The house itself was in a fairly affluent part of Fall River, but it wasn't in the most affluent place, which was an area called the Hill, which was literally the houses on the hill that could look down on everyone else.
And I want listeners to bear that in mind because that is going to become an important aspect of this story later on.
But for now, Anthony, tell us what we're looking at in this picture.
Yeah, it absolutely is.
It's just that.
It's it's an affluent middle class home in an affluent middle class city, in a part of America that is changing shape.
In terms of the wealth, in terms of the industry
But there's nothing out of the ordinary here.
So let's go inside.
And if we were to walk into this house, we would meet, first of all, Andrew Jackson Borden, this is the father of the household.
He is born in 1822.
He's of English and Welsh descent.
And interestingly, and this speaks very much to the times, he grew up in poverty.
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