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Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445658860
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strange Victoriana written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445666316
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victorian Murders written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800466579
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Doctor Poison written by Jan Bondeson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981865
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ripper of Waterloo Road written by Jan Bondeson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood’s murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a ‘client’ back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously ‘ripped’. The client was nowhere to be seen.The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza’s death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of ‘penny dreadfuls’ and urban legend.Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.
Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : Monkeybrain
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana written by Jess Nevins and published by Monkeybrain. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enormous volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of fantastic literature of the nineteenth century. From detective fiction to historical novels, from well-known authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, to Russian newspaper serials and Chinese martial arts novels, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASTIC VICTORIANA is a truly exhaustive look at every aspect of fantastic literature in the days of Queen Victoria. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will be surprised to find here the roots of genres thought to be strictly contemporary, and students of literature will be amazed at the breadth and scope of writings produced in the Victoriana era. This is an invaluable reference, and truly one-of-a-kind.
Author : Essie Fox
Publisher : Orenda Books
ISBN 13 : 1914585542
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fascination written by Essie Fox and published by Orenda Books. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian England. A world of rural fairgrounds and glamorous London theatres. A world of dark secrets and deadly obsessions... Twin sisters Keziah and Tilly Lovell are identical in every way, except that Tilly hasn't grown a single inch since she was five. Coerced into promoting their father's quack elixir as they tour the country fairgrounds, at the age of fifteen the girls are sold to a mysterious Italian known as 'Captain'. Theo is an orphan, raised by his grandfather, Lord Seabrook, a man who has a dark interest in anatomical freaks and other curiosities ... particularly the human kind. Resenting his grandson for his mother's death in childbirth, when Seabrook remarries and a new heir is produced, Theo is forced to leave home without a penny to his name. Unable to train to be a doctor as he'd hoped, Theo finds employment in Dr Summerwell's Museum of Anatomy in London, and here he meets Captain and his theatrical 'family' of performers, freaks and outcasts. But it is Theo's fascination with Tilly and Keziah that will lead all of them into a web of dark deceits, exposing the darkest secrets and threatening everything they know... Exploring universal themes of love and loss, the power of redemption and what it means to be unique, The Fascination is an evocative, glittering and bewitching gothic novel that brings alive Victorian London and darkness and deception that lies beneath...
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 144567629X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lion Boy and Other Medical Curiosities written by Jan Bondeson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian’s research skills combined with a physician’s diagnostic flair, exploring our timeless fascination with the unusual and downright bizarre people, events and theories in the colourful history of medicine.
Author : Mark Roland Langdale
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800467044
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Amazed! written by Mark Roland Langdale and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a very usual day, on a very usual school trip to Hampton Court Maze, there is a very unusually named girl called Victoriana Elizabeth Alice Royal. At least she can concentrate on history today and learn new facts as she wanders the maze. But little does Victoriana know that history will come alive for her in a way it never has before...
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446915X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Neo-Victoriana written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Contributions engage with novels, drama, film, television and material culture, while also covering cultural formations such as Black fandom, Black dandyism, or steamfunk.
Author : Cora Kaplan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231142175
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victoriana written by Cora Kaplan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession with Victorian culture. She considers evocations of the nineteenth century in literature (The French Lieutenants' Woman by John Fowles, Possession by A. S. Byatt, Nice Work by David Lodge, The Master by Colm Tóibín, Fingersmith by Sarah Waters, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst), film (Jane Campion's The Piano), and biography (Peter Ackroyd's Dickens). Why, she asks, does Jane Eyre still evoke tears and rage from its readers, and why has Henry James become fiction's favorite late-Victorian author? Within Victoriana, Kaplan argues, lies a modern history of its own that reflects the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Distance has lent a sense of antique charm and exoticism to even the worst abuses of the period, but it has also allowed innovative writers and filmmakers to use Victorian settings and language to develop a new and challenging aesthetic. Issues of class, gender, empire, and race are explored as well as the pleasures and dangers of imitating or referencing narrative forms, individual histories, and belief systems. As Kaplan makes clear, Victoriana can be seen as a striking example of historical imagination on the move, restless and unsettled.
