Notoriety, it seems, has become the new normal, but notorious celebrities are not a 21st-century invention. Victorians were galvanized by scandalous celebrities: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/a...
Edith Thompson was furious in 1924. She was well in her seventies, a respected historian, and a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. But now she was angry, very angry. The reason …
