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A Nasty Case of the Vapours

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25/10/2007

BBC Radio 4 Extra - A Nasty Case of the Vapours

Vivienne Parry explores the deaths and immune systems of heroines of English literature.

Vivienne Parry explores the symptomatology afflicting the Victorian literary heroine in the 19th century. From October 2007.

Vivienne Parry explores the lives, deaths and immune systems of heroines of English literature through the eyes of modern medicine. She takes an unusual look at great British novels by distinguishing plot devices from real medicine, finding out much about Victorian depiction of illness in the process.

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