Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today ...

Modern medicine has enabled citizens of wealthy, industrialized nations to forget that children once routinely died in ...

Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths ...

William Makepeace Thackeray, the eminent Victorian novelist ( Vanity Fair ... extracts from Thackeray’s private diaries and account-books, scores of his sketches, brief biographies of his ...

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