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“Victoriana scholar Murphy hits another bull’s-eye with this remarkable new title…. Absorbing and informative, this title is cultural history at its best”—Library Journal
“Enjoyable in its breezy enthusiasm. An unashamedly approachable good read.” — New York Times Book Review
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book
“I would have liked to be taught by Paul Thomas Murphy: he’s the most free-spirited of scholars.”
—John Sutherland, New York Times Book Review
Books by Paul Thomas Murphy
A gripping account of the eight different assassination attempts upon Queen Victoria that spanned her reign—and of the Queen’s history-changing responses to them.
The true story of the brutal murder of Jane Clousen, a Greenwich maid-of-all work, and of the extensive forensic and legal attempts to capture and convict her killer.
A colorful retelling of the lifelong struggle between James Whistler and John Ruskin—with the most important libel trial of the nineteenth century at its center—to shape the course of modern art.
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