Christine L. Corton

How fog gripped the Victorian imagination 

Londoners grew so fond of their infamous pea-soupers that they railed against smoke-abatement measures

Detail from Arthur Rackham’s 1915 illustration for Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol: ‘There was nothing very cheerful in the climate...’ 
issue 01 April 2023
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