Wicked Faire has come to an end. But Glimmerdark is coming, February 3-5, 2017. Find out more at glimmerdark.com!
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Ever since the publication of Henry Mayhew’s “London Labour and the London Poor” in the 1840s the figure of Jack Black, self-anointed rat-catcher to the Queen, has haunted the popular imagination. Black was a talented self promoter, rat catcher and rat breeder whose traffick in fancy rats for young ladies sparked the imagination of Beatrix Potter, among others. This presentation will consider what it took to be a “rat-trepreneur” in Victorian England, and how the Victorian cult of the rat found expressions in the popular music, art and broadsides of its day. Gerry O’Sullivan is a long-time academic administrator and professor of English literature specializing in the prose and poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries.
