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Title: COMIC, CURIOUS AND QUIRKY
NEWS STORIES FROM CENTURIES PAST
By: Rona F. Levin
Format: Hardback

List price: £10.00


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ISBN 10: 0712357726
ISBN 13: 9780712357722
Publisher: THE BRITISH LIBRARY PUBLISHING DIVISION
Pub. date: 1 September, 2014
Pages: 160
Description: This book is an eclectic collection of humorous, bizarre and quirky newspaper stories spanning the 1700s to 1900s.
Synopsis: This book is an eclectic collection of humorous, bizarre and quirky newspaper stories spanning the 1700s to 1900s. It reveals life's (often avoidable) daily perils such as the woman who poisoned her dinner guests, then died, having forgotten she'd used the same saucepan just days before to boil arsenic for the purpose of eradicating vermin (1830), and a drunk carter in charge of a ton of gunpowder on his horse-drawn cart, found careering through wet, slippery streets, while also carrying a number of "Lucifer" matches (1875). Scandal and gossip also highlight social mores of the times - stories include opening Empress Maria Theresa's body to find death "due to a great quantity of fat and viscous matter, Her Majesty having accustomed herself never to spit" (1781), a marriage between a corpse and his living Spiritualist bride (1856), and the formation of the "No-Nose Club" for people with no noses due to syphilis (1873).The author has also (possibly) discovered the man to blame for the adding of service charges to bills (1768), as well as (possibly) the most pretentious, pseudo-intellectual description of Tennyson's death: "Soft beams of light played upon the features of the dying poet like a halo of Rembrandt's"(1892).
Illustrations: 30 black and white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: The British Library Publishing Division
Returns: Returnable
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