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<p>"[The author] mixes extraordinary, marginal voices with famous - and infamous - figures, from messiahs like James Jezreel and Octavia 'Daughter of God'; writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; revolutionaries and radicals like Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Oswald Mosley; madmen like Richard Dadd and Jack the Ripper; worshippers of Pan such as Arthur Machen, Kenneth Grahame and J.M. Barrie; orientalists and guerrilla fighters like T.E. Lawrence and occultists like Aleister Crowley, to the Latvian anarchists who killed three policemen in the East End of London. This is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice: the non-conformists of the age."--Book jacket.</p>

Victoria's madmen : revolution and alienation / Clive Bloom.

viii, 602 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

The heretic in Darwin's court : the life of Alfred Russel Wallace / Ross A. Slotten.

ix, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm

Goodwin Wharton / J. Kent Clark.

xv, 472 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Teller of tales : the life of Arthur Conan Doyle / Daniel Stashower.

Freak shows ephemera. Box 3.

[Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].

A biography of the brothers Davenport : with some account of the physical and psychical phenomena which have occurred in their presence, in America and Europe / by T.L. Nichols.

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