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The Wonders

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

The Wonders

By John Woolf

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About the book

'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen FryA radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgotten and extraordinary freak performers whose talents and disabilities helped define an era.On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century - the age of the freak was born. Bewitching all ...Show more

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ISBN

9781782439936

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

The Wonders

Format

Hardcover

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