The Origin of the Right to Privacy: How the Press Coverage of Mrs. Bayard's Funeral Influenced Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis

In 1804, an Invisible Lady arrived in New York City.

She went on to become the most popular attraction in the country. But why? And who was she? In this episode, we chase her through time, finding invisible women everywhere, wondering: What is the relationship between keeping women invisible and the histories of privacy, and of knowledge?

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