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A Grim Almanac of Kent (Paperback)
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A Grim Almanac of Kent (Paperback)
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List price R480
Loot Price R398
Discovery Miles 3 980
You Save R82 (17%)
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In A Grim Almanac of Kent, W.H. Johnson has discovered a sinister,
macabre or horrifying occurrence for every day of the year, and
presents his readers with 365 graphic, spine-tingling and dramatic
events. The wicked, the mad, the foolish and the unfortunate parade
through the pages: poachers, witches, rioters, plague victims,
highwaymen, smugglers and the condemned awaiting their fate. There
are accidents, explosions, suicides and shipwrecks here. The author
takes us into prisons and workhouses, into the slums of Maidstone
and the cold cottages of the rural poor, and even onto the
scaffold. And then there are the likes of George Joseph Smith doing
away with his brides in the bath, the respectable Stauntons who
starved heiress Harriet to death, Frances Kidder who drowned her
stepdaughter, and an old man's murder which remained unsolved until
an incredible confession eleven years later.W.H. Johnson's new book
is generously illustrated with a range of engravings, photographs,
public notices and original documents. This chronicle of all that
is grim and ghastly is an entertaining and readable alternative
history of Kent.
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