The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age - Woolf, John
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A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable "freak" performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era. "Brilliantly researched and written with great verve."--Neil McKenna, author of The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.e.

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A radical new history that rediscovers the remarkable "freak" performers whose talents and charisma helped define an era. "Brilliantly researched and written with great verve."--Neil McKenna, author of The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde.e.
Autorenporträt
Dr. John Woolf is a researcher, writer, and historian specializing in nineteenthcentury cultural history. Having read history at the University of Cambridge, he went on to obtain a PhD on Victorian freak shows and currently works across TV, radio, and film. He has most recently cowritten the bestselling Audible book Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets and has developed and featured in a number of BBC series and documentaries on freak performers and the Victorian period. In 2017, The Wonders was awarded the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize for the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography.