Strange Victoriana

Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorians Ancestors

von Jan Bondeson

352 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book makes use of a privately held archive of 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. The White Gorilla takes a swig from its tankard of beer, eagles come swooping from the sky to carry off little children, and the Rat-Killing Monkey of Manchester goes on a rampage, . Each one of these tales is a window into an era that encapsulated public probity and private hysteria in the strangest of ways.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781445686554
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2019
• Größe: 195 x 124 mm
• Verlag: Amberley Publishing