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 • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 Galle...

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