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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Blackest Streets, by Sarah Wise








http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blackest-Streets-Life-Death-Victorian/dp/1844133311/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307431503&sr=1-1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/05/saturdayreviewsfeatres.guardianreview30

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-blackest-streets-by-sarah-wise-870368.html


I'm really enjoying this book. Much later in time of course but my Mother comes from Bethnal Green and it has the most wonderful Victorian cemetary
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A blog on my love of Victorian and Edwardian paintings. Please note over 70,000 painters of this period, many very obscure, have been identified and this blog concentrates on those that have come up for auction in the last ten years or so. It is mainly compiled using old auction catalogues with help from the many reference books I own.

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