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One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858
By Ashton, Rosemary
- ISBN
- 9780300227260
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2017 | Arts and Humanities
The summer of 1858 was one of the hottest on record in London. The heat combined with sewage in the Thames to create the "Great Stink," which finally drove Parliament to undertake the cleanup of the river. Ashton (Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature, Univ. Coll. London; Victorian Bloomsbury) traces the progress of the Thames Purification Bill under the guidance of Chancellor of the Excheq...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
