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Comic, Curious and Quirky: News Stories from Centuries Past by Rona F. Levin (Hardback, 2014)

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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 ses 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).

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Publisher
The British Library Publishing Division
ISBN-10
0712357726
ISBN-13
9780712357722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208937214

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Author
Rona F. Levin
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Regional History

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Place of Publication
London
Content Note
30 Black and White Illustrations
Author Biography
Rona Levin is a communications specialist with more than 30 years in journalism and PR. She has worked on newspapers, teletext news services andfor Sky News.
Out-Of-Print Date
28/07/2016
Date of Publication
25/09/2014
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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