Summerscale, Kate
Summary: Traces the story of a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how Isabella Robinson recorded sexual fantasies in her private diary, which was discovered and read by her husband, who petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARSTAIRS, JOE SUMSummerscale, Kate
Summary: "The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 SUMSummerscale, Kate
Summary: "London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out ofher handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021