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19th Century Context (London Life (Pollution was caused by burning cheap…
19th Century Context
London Life
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Poor visibility caused lots of traffic incidents and lights had to be on all day to help prevent this
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Crime and Violence
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75% of all recorded crime was petty theft. Only 10% of crimes were violent and murder was relatively rare
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Victorian gentleman
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Physical appearance was especially important. They had to be well presented with not a hair out of place
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Poison and Drugs
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Opium was a very popular recreational drug with different coatings depending on your wealth. (Gold coating-very rich, silver coat-rich, varnish-poor)
Poisons like cyanide, arsenic and strychnine were easily available and widely used for murder
Working Class
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There were no workers rights for a large portion of the 19th century but that slowly began to change later on
Whole villages would be built around factories and factories and everyone who lived there would work in that factory
Robert Stevenson's Life
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Illness featured a lot in his life. For example he was ill so often as a child that he was home-schooled by a private tutor
He travelled a lot during uni (where he studied law) and this is where he found his sense of adventure and love for writing
Supernatural
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In the 1830's and 1840's people believed that 'mesmerism' could heal by manipulating invisible flows between bodies
Belief in the supernatural grew after 2 sisters in New York were being haunted by a man who was murdered in the house they lived in
Sigmund Freud
Believed we are made up of our id, ego, and superego
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