Snakes and Leeches
Rosemary Hill: The Great Stink, 4 January 2018
One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858
by Rosemary Ashton.
Yale, 352 pp., £25, July 2017,978 0 300 22726 0 Show More
by Rosemary Ashton.
Yale, 352 pp., £25, July 2017,
“... the press and kept the specialist scandal sheets in business. One of the most entertaining was Robinson v. Robinson and Lane. Henry Robinson had read his wife Isabella’s diary and found that not only did she dislike him intensely but she had recorded in considerable detail a ... ”