Going Down the Drain: Sweeney Todd, Sewerage, and London Sanitation in the 1840s
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2019.43.2.3-18
Date of publication: 2019-07-03 11:00:31
Date of submission: 2018-07-06 19:40:15
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