S6, Ep 40 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Spectacular Unpause (you may not know about)

What happens when one of the most famous women in the world goes back to work? She proves she has something to give by giving her all and leaving a legacy that no one can argue with. ⁠Jackie’s last 20 years were a study in how fulfilling a working life can be. She didn’t need to do it, she didn’t have to do it; she wanted to do it. ⁠And with two marriages behind her and two children at school, no one was going to hold her back. At 45, she reclaimed her career and got down to work. ⁠

Show Notes:

• Reading Jackie by William Kuhn
• The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski
• Prix de Paris - Vogue Writing Prize
• Letitia Baldrige (First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s Social Secretary)
• Diana Vreeland
• The Glory of Russian Costume (Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• In The Russian Style (accompanying book, edited by Jacqueline Onassis)
• Maria by Callas (Netflix documentary)

Jackie's favourite novels:

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Out of Africa by Karen Blixen
• Colette

// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net