Artemus Ward in London [1/8]
Artemus Ward, pseud. [[Charles F Browne]] *
Genre: | Letter, Spoof, Serial |
Subjects: | Exhibitions, Amusement, Magic, Collecting, Animal Behaviour |
The narrator boasts about his exhibition of 'startlin' curiositys, wax works, snaix' and describes the mishaps caused when he hired a 'young man of dissypated habits' to masquerade in a show as 'A real Cannibal from New Zeelan'. | |
Reprinted: | Browne 1870 |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]