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Susannah Grossman Wolfe

Susannah Grossman Wolfe

Guest on the This Wreckage podcast and recurring "gothic romance correspondent"; insurance professional (Policy Specialist at Euclid Transactional) based in New York.

Sep 25, 2026

9:07
And, um, most dramatically of this scene is that they are, uh, pulling up the dresses, um, of the children to see if they're of age to be taxed, and I, I s- I guess they're checking if they have pubic hair or something.
9:23
Their hymen's intact or things like that.
9:26
Yeah, and I mean, there are chron- there are kind of, in later chronicles, uh, descriptions of that behavior from these committees of inquiry, which were...
9:36
I mean, not, there, there were committees of inquiry that would go to villages to see why people weren't paying their poll taxes.
9:43
Whether or not those events actually occurred is a matter of some historical dispute, but it's certainly effective in demonstrating, again, in like the first 10 minutes of the film, just the sense of exhaustion and despair and frustration and outrage of, uh, [laughs] of, of the rustici, of the, the rural people, the common people.
10:08
Um, so yeah, um, just, uh, briefly, as Andy said, um, you know, the events of the revolt occur a- you know, about 30 years after the b- the big outbreak of black plague in England.
14:11
And, um, yeah, the, there was a lot of speculation that he was being controlled by his counselors.

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