Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain by Rebecca Stern, Christopher R. Smit, Heather McHold, Karyn Valerius, Joyce L. Huff, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Kelly Hurley, Christine C. Ferguson, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Melissa Free, Nadja Durbach, Timothy Neil, Meegan Kennedy, Marlene Tromp

Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
Rebecca Stern, Christopher R. Smit, Heather McHold, Karyn Valerius, Joyce L. Huff, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Kelly Hurley, Christine C. Ferguson, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Melissa Free, Nadja Durbach, Timothy Neil, Meegan Kennedy, Marlene Tromp

368 pages • first pub 2008 (view editions)

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While “freaks” have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, “missing links,” and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Ro...