10 bizarre Victorian love stories

Jeremy Clay has written another fascinating piece for the BBC, based on his book The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton. Once again, the article quickly became one of the top 5 Most Read and Most Shared stories on the BBC site.

10 bizarre Victorian love stories

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Jeremy Clay

Jeremy Clay

At first, Jeremy Clay wanted to be a soldier. A war hero. The kind of steel-jawed Tommy from the comic books, who single-handedly storms a machine gun post to anguished cries of aieeeeeeeee from the enemy.   But after losing a primary school fight to a younger kid who grew up to be a poet, h...More about Jeremy Clay