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Strange Victoriana - Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors (Paperback)
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Strange Victoriana - Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors (Paperback)
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List price R389
Loot Price R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
You Save R65 (17%)
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This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old
periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and
uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are
exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the
Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated
Cats, and scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the
roofs. From the spectral world, we have the Haunted Murder House
near Chard, the Ghost of Berkeley Square, the Jumping Spectre of
Peckham and the Fighting Ghost of Tondu. The White Gorilla takes a
swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to
carry off little children, heroic Newfoundland dogs plunge into the
waves to rescue drowning mariners, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of
Manchester goes on a rampage in the rat-pit, swinging a hammer. How
is it that Britain's most straitened and sober era produced these
most fantastical myths and case studies? For all of its infamous
restraint and repression, a seething underworld of urban legend and
vice, accompanied by the shadow of unconscious nightmare, stalked
Victorian life. Each one of these tales is a window into an era
that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the
strangest of ways. After reading this book, your views on Victorian
culture will change forever.
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