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The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise
de Wise, Sarah
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London : Jonathan Cape, 2004. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 347 pp.: illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; Suspiciously fresh -- Persons unknown -- The thickest part -- Houseless wretches -- Systematic slaughter -- Houseless wretches again -- Neighbors -- Meat : an interlude -- Whatever has happened to Fanny? -- A horrid system -- At the Bailey -- A Newgate stink -- I, John Bishop ... -- Day of dissolution -- The use of the dead to the living -- How many? Subjects; Bishop, John fl 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Ferrari, Carlo fl. 1931 murder victim. May, James fl. 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Williams, Thomas fl. 1831 murderer and bodysnatcher. Body snatching England London History 19th century. Grave robbing. Manners and customs. Murder. Poor. Social conditions.
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Sarah Wise is a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to the Guardian , the Independent on Sunday Review , and The Times . She completed an MA in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College in 1996.
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- The Italian boy : murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London / Sarah Wise
- Autor
- Wise, Sarah
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- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224071769
- ISBN 13
- 9780224071765
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- London : Jonathan Cape
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- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
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