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In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Aunt Lydia is named after Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (as all Aunts are named after house supply or pharmaceutical brands). [25] In Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman (1984), a character tells another to go to a drugstore and "fetch me a bottle of Lydia Pinkham's ointment.'
The Lydia Pinkham House was the Lynn, Massachusetts, home of Lydia Pinkham, a leading manufacturer and marketer of patent medicines in the late 19th century. It is in this house that she developed Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, an application claimed to provide relief for "female complaints".
It is a modernisation of an older folk song titled "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham". The lyrics celebrate the "medicinal compound" invented by Lily the Pink, and humorously chronicle the "efficacious" cures it has brought about, such as inducing morbid obesity to cure a weak appetite, or bringing about a sex change as a remedy for freckles.
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Louis Pinkham (1888–1919), American football player and coach; Lucius E. Pinkham (1850–1922), fourth Territorial Governor of Hawaii; Lydia Pinkham (1819–1883), American patent medicine manufacturer and businesswoman; Mary Ellen Pinkham (contemporary), American humor columnist and author; Natalie Pinkham (born 1977), British television ...
1 1/2 cups dried cannellini or other white beans, soaked overnight and drained. 2 fresh bay leaves. 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling. kosher salt.
In line with her Impressionist influences, Cassatt's work adopts an asymmetrical composition emphasizing Lydia's dominant role as the carriage driver in a familiar outing. The artistic techniques employed, including spatial compression, conspicuous brushwork, and use of color, likely reflect the influence of Degas.