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ISBN10: 1782439935, ISBN13: 9781782439936, [publisher: Michael O'Mara] Hardcover The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]
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ISBN10: 1782439935, ISBN13: 9781782439936, [publisher: Michael O'Mara] Hardcover The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . [Wallingford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]
ISBN10: 1782439935, ISBN13: 9781782439936, [publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen Fry The Wonders is a 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 levels of society, it was a world of astonishing spectacle of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins and swaggering showmen and one that has since inspired countless novels, films and musicals. But the real stories (human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage), of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, Dr John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. And through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of showbusiness, of cel ...
ISBN10: 1782439935, ISBN13: 9781782439936, [publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London] Softcover 'A promising young historian with a taste for the exotic.' Stephen Fry The Wonders is a 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 levels of society, it was a world of astonishing spectacle of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins and swaggering showmen and one that has since inspired countless novels, films and musicals. But the real stories (human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage), of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, Dr John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. And through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of showbusiness, of cel ...
ISBN10: 1782439935, ISBN13: 9781782439936, [publisher: Michael O'Mara Books] Hardcover Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase. [Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]
London Michael O'Mara Books Ltd 2019 Hard cover New in new dust jacket. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. FIRST EDITION AS NEW Black Boards HB 9x7" with Red Curtain endpapers. The birth of showbusiness & the extraordinary tales of people using their disabilities & differences to become the first celebrities. 131pp with index & references, ISBN 1782439936
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