Storytime Snack: Sweeney Todd, Pies, and Women

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Welcome to an unconventional and experimental episode of Albion Tonight! Join me for an evening of storytelling where I read and react to the original penny dreadful version of Sweeney Todd. During which I share my insights on gender, food, and history related. See how literature and history are interconnected. Most of all, please sit back, relax, and enjoy this raw and riveting episode relating to Mrs. Lovett and the Demon-Barber of Fleet Street.*Disclaimer*: The text as read is left as is in the Gutenberg Press addition, with a few minor differences from my quirks and mistakes. The opinions and problematic languages therein are those of the 19th-century authors and their text, not my own. Kimball, Courtney. “Sweeney Todd’s Dreadfuls and Mass Readership.” The Journal of Publishing Culture Vol. 7. (2017): 1-12. Prest, Thomas Peckett and James Malcolm Rymer. The String of Pearls: Or, The Barber of Fleet Street: A Domestic Romance. R. Loyd, Salisbury Square, 1850. Project Gutenberg, 2019.

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