Although taxidermy predated the Victorian Era, this practice reached the peak of its popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I discuss ways in which taxidermy became accessible to the public during the Victorian Era, and consider what it meant on a cultural and social level.
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References
Brown, Thomas. The Taxidermists Manual. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221209/page/n31/mode/2up
Burgan, Rebecca. “Anthropomorphic Taxidermy: How Dead Rodents Became the Darlings of the Victorian Elite.” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/anthropomorphic-taxidermy-how-dead-rodents-became-the-darlings-of-the-victorian-elite
Cruikshank, Drew. “Victorian Taxidermy and the Peculiar Life of Walter Potter.” https://www.friendsofdalnavert.ca/blog/2020/7/12/victorian-taxidermy-and-the-peculiar-life-of-walter-potter
Flint, David. “The Bizarre and Disturbing World of Victorian Taxidermy Hats.” https://reprobatepress.com/2021/10/15/the-bizarre-and-disturbing-world-of-victorian-taxidermy-hats/
Johnson, Ben. “The Great Exhibition 1851.” https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Great-Exhibition-of-1851/
Maiorano, Hannah. “The Victorian Naturalist and their Interest in Taxidermy.” https://mollybrown.org/victorian-naturalist-interest-taxidermy/
Rogers, Brooke. “The Art of Victorian Taxidermy.” https://www.museums.iastate.edu/virtual/blog/2020/07/30/the-art-of-victorian-taxidermy
Taxidermy Hobbyist. “Victorian Taxidermy.” https://taxidermyhobbyist.com/history-of-taxidermy/victorian-taxidermy.html
Wikipedia. “Thomas Brown (naturalist).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brown_(naturalist)
Would, Alice. “The Curious Creatures of Victorian Taxidermy.” https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/curious-creatures-victorian-taxidermy
Wright, Steve. “What is Taxidermy? – Everything you didn’t know.” https://taxidermy.blog/what-is-taxidermy/#:~:text=Steve%20Wright%20What%20is%20Taxidermy%3F%20Taxidermy%20is%20the,carefully%20modeling%20its%20features%20in%20a%20lifelike%20attitude.
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