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List of illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Reading the signs xi
Writing Combe's life 1
Author of the Constitution
'Toots, Laddie' 19
The old philosophy and the new 33
Combe's development: lecturing, family, and controversy 47
'The rascal' and his 'willing pupil' 63
Combe's Constitution 79
In Public and in Private
What the actress said to the phrenologist 97
Cecilia Combe: the scientist's wife 111
Quackery, commercialism and the civic ideal: Combe in the USA 125
Heidelberg, haemorrhoids, and health 143
Italy and art 159
Politics and Providentialism
Educating Albert 175
The new philosophy 191
Respectable radicalism: Marian Evans and mesmerism 203
Racial science and racial politics 217
God's Secular Providence 231
Notes 247
Select bibliography 317
Bibliography 325
Index 345
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Michael Siverly
reviewed Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind on June 13, 2012
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
A disappointing book -- the author is incredibly biased against Von Braun. This has all the marks of a hit piece. Would not recommend this title.
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