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Richard Davenport-Hines: Jack the Ripper and the London Press by Perry Curtis, 4 April 2002
Jack the Ripper and the London Press
by Perry Curtis.
Yale, 354 pp., £25, February 2002,0 300 08872 8 Show More
by Perry Curtis.
Yale, 354 pp., £25, February 2002,
“... When Tennyson and Jowett sat up late together, it was to talk of murders. The Victorians took a ghoulish pleasure in every phase of their more ghastly homicides; from the moment a corpse was found the hunt for morbid thrills was intense. After seven members of the Marshall family were hacked to death at Denham in 1870, ‘pleasure vans’ brought hordes of day-trippers from London to see the gore, and to purloin souvenirs ... ”