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Strange Victoriana
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-08-15
Strange Victoriana written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-15 with History categories.
Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms.
Victorian Murders
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Victorian Murders written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with True Crime categories.
This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.
Victoriana Histories Fictions Criticism
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Author : Cora Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-02-14
Victoriana Histories Fictions Criticism written by Cora Kaplan and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-14 with Social Science categories.
A series of astute critical reflections on our enduring fascination with all things Victorian. In this book Cora Kaplan looks at the politics of Victorians from the 1970s to the present, a politics that emerges from the alternation between nostalgia and critique in fiction, film, biography and literary studies. She asks how Jane Eyre can still evoke tears and rage, as well as inspiring imitation and high art, and why Henry James has become fiction's favourite late Victorian character in the new millennium? Victorians, the book argues, has developed a modern history of its own in which we can trace the shifting social and cultural concerns of the last few decades. Through the constant interrogation of history in such innovative works as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman, A.S. Byatt's Possession, David Lodge's Nice Work, Peter Ackroyd's Dickens, Jane Campion's The Piano, Colm Toibin's The Master, Sarah Waters's Fingersmith, Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty and Julian Barnes's Arthur and George, 'Victoriana' maps out a very particular postmodern temporality.
Doctor Poison
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Doctor Poison written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with True Crime categories.
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.
A Strange World Volume I
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Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
A Strange World Volume I written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Fiction categories.
This book is a collection of short stories by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, best known for her sensation novels of the Victorian era. The stories explore a wide range of themes, from the supernatural and the macabre to the romantic and the domestic. They showcase Braddon's versatility as a writer and her skill at evoking the emotional lives of her characters. The collection also includes an introduction by Braddon herself, in which she reflects on her career and her approach to writing. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The First Psychic
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Author : Peter Lamont
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Release Date : 2005
The First Psychic written by Peter Lamont and has been published by Little Brown GBR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Great Britain categories.
He was simply the greatest psychic of all time. He was also the first - before him, the word 'psychic' did not even exist. The feats he performed were so extraordinary that Victorian scientists had to invent the term in order to explain them. The man who became the world's first psychic was Daniel Dunglas Home. Now almost entirely forgotten, Home was a household name in Victorian Britain, a man of inexplicable ability who divided opinion wherever he went. Hated by Dickens and defended by Thackeray, denounced by faraday yet mysterious to Darwin, insulted by Tolstoy but patronised by the Emperor of France and the Csar of Russia. He was, it is said, the only subject upon which Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning ever argued. The astonishing feats he performed, and the bizarre personal life that attracted so much controversy, are little known today outside the esoteric world of psychical research. He rarely appears in the biographies of the many great Victorians who knew him as few could openly admit to such a controversial acquaintance. But everyone knew him, or knew of him. figures in history, and the strange and seemingly inexplicable events that occurred in his presence.
The Ripper Of Waterloo Road
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Author : Jan Bondeson
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2017-01-13
The Ripper Of Waterloo Road written by Jan Bondeson and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-13 with True Crime categories.
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.
The Fascination
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Author : Essie Fox
language : en
Publisher: Orenda Books
Release Date : 2023-06-22
The Fascination written by Essie Fox and has been published by Orenda Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with Fiction categories.
The estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities becomes fascinated with teenaged twin sisters, leading them into a web of dark obsessions. A dazzlingly dark gothic novel from the bestselling author of The Somnambulist. `Makes skilful use of the tropes of Victorian gothic fiction... a story of society's outsiders seeking acceptance and redemption ́ Sunday Times `An inventive slice of gothic fiction, big-hearted and full of strangeness ́ The Times `A dazzling kaleidoscope of darkness and light ́ Laura Purcell `A magical, macabre masterpiece ́ A.J. West `Brimming with Victorian wonders! ́ Sean Lusk ________________________________ 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. 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 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... ________________________________ `Fascinating and immersive ́ Anna Mazzola `It had me spellbound ́ Louisa Treger `A wonderful, captivating carnival of a novel ́ Elizabeth Fremantle `Essie Fox's best novel to date – weaves terrors with triumphs, heartache with hope ́ Culturefly `A scintillating cabinet of curiosities ́ Foreword Reviews `A cast of characters Dickens would be proud of ́ Frances Quinn `Rich, dark and heady ... a glorious gothic carnival ́ Kate Griffin `Magnificent ... a triumph ́ Dinah Jefferies `A tender, beautifully written meditation on what it meant in Victorian times to be an outsider ́ Historical Novel Society `Darkly gothic, but surprisingly tender ... rendered with such magical and often terrifying authenticity. A marvel ́ Damian Dibben `Filled with gothic darkness and glorious hope ́ Liz Fenwick `Full of horrors and delights ́ Bridget Walsh 'An opium trance of a novel, a vivid fantasmagoria ́ Noel O'Reilly `Deliciously dark, full of twists and surprises ́ Liz Hyder `What a triumph! ́ Emma Curtis `Very fine historical fiction ́ Emma Carroll `Truly unexpected and original ́ Kate Forsyth `A dizzying potion of a novel ́ Polly Crosby `A sumptuous, gothic treat ́ Caroline Green `Exceptional storytelling ́ Nydia Hetherington `I loved this group of wonderful "others" ́ Marika Cobbold `An exquisite novel ́ Erika Mailman `Haunting and emotive ́ Gill Paul
The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Victoriana
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Author : Jess Nevins
language : en
Publisher: Monkeybrain
Release Date : 2005
The Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Victoriana written by Jess Nevins and has been published by Monkeybrain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
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.
The Crow Garden
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Author : Alison Littlewood
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-10-05
The Crow Garden written by Alison Littlewood and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Susan Hill meets Wilkie Collins in Alison Littlewood's latest chiller. Mad-doctor Nathaniel is obsessed with the beautiful Mrs Harleston - but is she truly delusional? Or is she hiding secrets that should never be uncovered . . . ? Haunted by his father's suicide, Nathaniel Kerner walks away from the highly prestigious life of a consultant to become a mad-doctor. He takes up a position at Crakethorne Asylum, but the proprietor is more interested in phrenology and his growing collection of skulls than the patients' minds. Nathaniel's only interesting case is Mrs Victoria Adelina - Vita - Harleston: her husband accuses her of hysteria and delusions - but she accuses him of hiding secrets far more terrible. Nathaniel is increasingly obsessed with Vita, but when he has her mesmerised, there are unexpected results. Vita starts hearing voices, the way she used to - her grandmother always claimed they came from beyond the grave - but it also unleashes her own powers of mesmerism . . . and a desperate need to escape. Increasingly besotted, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a world of séances and stage mesmerism in his bid to find Vita and save her. But constantly hanging over him is this warning: that doctors are apt to catch the diseases with which they are surrounded - whether of the body or the mind . . . '[An] enjoyable excursion . . . gripping' The Sunday Times