Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary Of A Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale

On August 15, 2018May 30, 2018 By CravenWildIn book reviews2 Comments

This book is really beautifully bound if you get the hard cover edition. It's soft blue, with embossed gold flowers on the cover, and a swathed Victorian lady pictured in the centre. Perhaps it's slightly beside the point, but I do love a the pleasure of reading a beautifully bound volume. Kate Summerscale once again …

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The Wicked Boy: An Infamous Murder in Victorian London by Kate Summerscale

On April 25, 2018January 15, 2018 By CravenWildIn book reviews2 Comments

Penned by the author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, this book is the story of another Victorian crime which was notorious in it's time, The Plaistow Tragedy of 1895. Two boys, 12 and 13 years old, told neighbors and friends that their mother had gone to Liverpool and proceeded to attend cricket …

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