The Little Professor has a post about out-of-print Victorian novels today and talks about some of them that she'd like to see return. This one sounds good.
The Little Professor: "Mary Martha Sherwood: At the very least, a good edition of The History of the Fairchild Family, which has to be the most famous Victorian book (series of books, actually) that nobody has ever read. I vote for the first volume, which has all the notorious material ('Just between that and the wood stood a gibbet, on which the body of a man hung in chains: the body had not yet fallen to pieces, although it had hung there some years. It had on a blue coat, a silk handkerchief round the neck, with shoes and stockings, and every other part of the dress still entire : but the face of the corpse was so shocking, that the children could not look upon it')."
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This caught my eye, too. The Little Professor gets into some strange stuff.
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