Charles Dickens is Summoned to an Inquest
Charles Dickens is Summoned to an Inquest Charles Dickens gives us an insider’s “slice-of-death” look at a Victorian coroner’s inquest on a dead infant.
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‘Victorian infanticide’
The Seven Babies in No. 77
The Seven Babies in No. 77 Appalled by articles about the horrific discovery of infant corpses at two mortuaries in Detroit, I bring you a grim and grewsome story about a Victorian London undertaker similarly neglectful of his duties.