1847 illustration by Hablot Knight Browne of resurrectionists John Holmes and Peter Williams unearthing cadavers, from The Chronicles of Crime; Being A Series of Memoirs and Anecdotes of Notorious Characters Who Have Outraged the Laws of Great Britain from the Earliest Period… Read More ›
Victorian
Silent Sundays: The Last of the Spirits (1910)
Harry Furniss, The Last of the Spirits, eighth and final illustration for the 1910 Charles Dickens Library Edition of A Christmas Carol.
“Two Ghosts Converse” by Emily Dickinson
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? ‘For beauty,’ I replied. ‘And I for truth, — the two… Read More ›