Links tagged with “victorian”
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LRB · Jenny Diski · Toxic Lozenges
About how common arsenic poisoning (both murder and accidental) was, mainly in the 19th century. Fascinating.
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The New York Review of Books: City Lights
Review of Tristram Hunt’s ‘Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City’. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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The New York Review of Books: Summoning the Spirits
Fascinating article about Victorian mediums, spirit photographers etc. (subscribers only)