Pleasant it is, no doubt, to drink tea with your sweetheart, but most disagreeable to find her bubbling in the tea-urn- Thomas de Quincey     Judith Flanders spans the crime of the period, from the body snatching/murdering days of Burke and Hare to the joys of Harriet Lowe and “Sweet Fanny Addams” (two dismemberment victims whose names were used to sell of all things, canned meat), to of course, seeing as this is a book about Victorian crime, the entire chapter on Jack the […]