Consult the Oracle: A Victorian Guide to Folklore and Fortune Telling
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"If you sing before breakfast you will cry before supper...' In their own words, what it meant for...
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love...
Explorers of the Nile: the Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
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Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of...
Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity
Gowan Dawson, Bernard Lightman, Melinda Baldwin and Ruth Barton
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Victorian Scientific Naturalism examines the secular creeds of the generation of intellectuals who,...
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-doctors in Victorian England
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This book was shortlisted for the Welcome Book Prize. Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and...
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson: The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife
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Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward...
Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and its Trade in the Dead Poor, c.1834 - 1929: 2012
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The first book to provide a detailed analysis of the body-trafficking networks of the dead poor that...
Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions
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Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first 'unsinkable' ship? How would one...