Body-Snatchers Dug Up the Dead
Diane Morris | Thursday, March 24th, 2022 | Body-snatchers, Life & Times, Resurrection Men | No Comments
A previous blog described some of the lessons I learned researching and writing about body-snatchers (1). In Jane Austen’s day (particularly the early 1800s), body-snatchers dug up the dead at night and delivered the fresh cadavers to the surgeons at London’s anatomy and medical schools. These resurrection men, as they were sometimes called (2, 3), and the […]
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Diane Morris | Sunday, November 14th, 2021 | surgeons & surgery, Writing | No Comments
My trilogy is finished. The series–titled Surgeon’s Duty–is set in Regency England (specifically 1816 and 1817) and follows a hospital surgeon and several body-snatchers (a.k.a. resurrection men). The body-snatchers dig up newly buried bodies and sell them to the hospital surgeons for dissecting. Book 1–titled Ravaging the Dead–is nearly ready to be published. Here are […]
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