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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London by Sarah Wise
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challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
3.75
liked the bit about how one guy was married to his step mother after his fathers death and they had to keep it quiet at first because the neighbors raised a bunch of money for her, and after they heard she was shacked up with her stepson they were less pleased and wanted the donations back
one guy rented lawyers robes and wig to sneak into the court room and get good seats during the trial
descriptions of London in a transitional period- the condition of droves of animals being herded through streets for sale like it was a cattle market that simultaneously had to serve as a roadway for pedestrians, the plethora of professional beggars who had a special schtick to earn more money- as these things changed and the city "improved" these things went away and people both liked the improvements and mourned the changing character of the city just like people do with things like Time Square today.
so much callousness, bodies were not property and so grave robbers left goods to avoid legal charges but the body snatching itself was taboo and would get them vigilante justice enacted on them. the doctors were in the habit of looking the other way and bailing their suppliers out if they got caught to keep their own good names. vivisectionists were scum even at the time. the eternal struggle between rich and poor, scientists and laypeople, traditionalists and reformers and the times that cause people to stop to care about one particular tragedy amid the ocean of daily crimes that must have been happening.
one guy rented lawyers robes and wig to sneak into the court room and get good seats during the trial
descriptions of London in a transitional period- the condition of droves of animals being herded through streets for sale like it was a cattle market that simultaneously had to serve as a roadway for pedestrians, the plethora of professional beggars who had a special schtick to earn more money- as these things changed and the city "improved" these things went away and people both liked the improvements and mourned the changing character of the city just like people do with things like Time Square today.
so much callousness, bodies were not property and so grave robbers left goods to avoid legal charges but the body snatching itself was taboo and would get them vigilante justice enacted on them. the doctors were in the habit of looking the other way and bailing their suppliers out if they got caught to keep their own good names. vivisectionists were scum even at the time. the eternal struggle between rich and poor, scientists and laypeople, traditionalists and reformers and the times that cause people to stop to care about one particular tragedy amid the ocean of daily crimes that must have been happening.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, and Child death
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