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This British Military Assault Might Have Inspired the Pearl Harbor Attack
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By Mike Pryce
The divine Sarah Siddons. Worcester educated, she died in 1831 in London and more than 5,000 attended her funeral HAD the Beatles pitched up in Worcester in 1763 – unlikely I know – they still wouldn’t have found a decent auditorium. The city has long lacked one. As it was, when they came twice in 1963, they had to make do with the stage of the Gaumont cinema, which was a bit better than the wooden shed they’d have been offered 200 years before. In the 18th century few places had a theatre that wasn’t a barn or some other impoverished property. At Worcester, the performing arts were staged in a wooden building in the yard of the King’s Head Inn, opposite the Guildhall in High Street.
Portrait of “Rosa Matilda,” a pseudonym of Charlotte Dacre, unknown artist/date
Gothic Credentials: Charlotte Dacre was a Gothic poet and author whose work was considered eminently unsuitable for fostering good morals in its female readers at the time. Always a good sign. Unlike many of the women writers of the early Gothic, she has no time for mealy-mouthed heroines following all the rules. Indeed, in her most famous work
Zofloya (1806), said weeble-heroine is gleefully hurled off a cliff. What Dacre brings us are some good old-fashioned murder ladies. Well… new-fashioned in her time.
Zofloya is all about the voluptuous and half-demonic Victoria and her dealings with the all-demonic Zofloya the devil disguised as a handsome Moorish servant. Although Victoria is suitably punished for her transgressions at the end, Dacre revels in depicting female desire (for a man of colour no less scandalous) and you can’t help wondering if she isn’t rather on the devil’s side.