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

368 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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...

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