The Wonder

This week we're going back to 1860s Ireland with The Wonder! Join us as we learn about anorexia mirabilis, turf, Victorian hair tokens, and more! *Content Warning: This episode features discussion of eating disorders and sexual abuse.

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Liam Kennedy, ""The People's Fuel": Turf in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Energy Transitions in History: Global Cases of Continuity and Change, edited by Richard W. Unger, 25-30 (2013). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Winiwarter/publication/260497629_The_View_from_Below_On_Energy_in_Soils_and_Food/links/02e7e5317108b2128c000000/The-View-from-Below-On-Energy-in-Soils-and-Food.pdf#page=27
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Jolene Zigarovich, "Circulating Bodies: Secular Mementos, Jewelry, and Hairwork," in Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023) 131-56. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2hq0hnc.8
Victoria & Albert Museum examples of mourning rings: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376217/ring/ and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O376204/ring/ and https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O123385/mourning-ring-unknown/
Deborah Lutz, "The Dead Still Among Us: Victorian Secular Relics, Hair Jewelry, and Death Culture," Victorian Literature and Culture 39, no.1 (2011): 127-42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41307854