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Julia Pastrana - The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman (Paperback, New ed)
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Julia Pastrana - The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman (Paperback, New ed)
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In a dusty corner at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Norway
lie the remains of Julia Pastrana, half hidden in a black plastic
sack, all but forgotten. Yet in the middle of the nineteenth
century, this 'ape woman' was renowned, visited by scientists of
international repute, and drawing the populace of three continents
to the freakshows in which she starred. Just 4ft 6in tall, she was
covered in hair, with a protruding jaw; but she also spoke several
languages, married, had a child, made money. This is the compelling
and strange story of how a woman born in the backwoods of Mexico
came to be one of the most infamous women in Europe and America and
how, nearly 150 years after she first set foot upon the stage,
Julia is still being shown to others. The exhibition goes on.
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