Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
The personal and professional lives of Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli in the London of 1858 are explored as a way in to the scandals, shifting ideas, and experimentations of a year in which the Thames was particularly sewage-riddled
Levertijd: ca. 4 tot 6 werkdagen
A unique, colorful view of Victorian London when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured "the Great Stink" across one hot summer