The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf

The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

John Woolf

384 pages hardcover 2019

12 editions

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 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, and the age ...

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