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,
“... accuracy or, as it seemed to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, literalism; he complained to William Bell Scott that most of the Academy pictures that year were ‘done in prose’. But this was what the general art-viewing public of the mid-Victorian years liked, a picture with a story they could follow and explain to one another. Not that it had to be a nice ... ”