tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582997874621015158.post8555634475519933998..comments2024-03-25T05:57:05.813-04:00Comments on Morbid Anatomy: "Casts of the Teeth of Julia Pastrana (1834-1860), the Nondescript" : Guest Post by Kristin Hussey, Hunterian Museum, LondonJEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12838204584193436515noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6582997874621015158.post-22992681744543209622014-01-05T04:45:04.206-05:002014-01-05T04:45:04.206-05:00Thanks for this post.
I have been infatuated with ...Thanks for this post.<br />I have been infatuated with Julia Pastrana for some years now and there is precious little texts I have been able to dig up on her. There is some very interesting commentary from her day which is quite charming.<br />Her husband made overtures to her when he first met her, by throwing figs over the wall of her family home, thus enticing her out. He was said to have been genuinely beguiled by her despite it being publicly understood that he married her simply to secure his rights over her ownership, as was the way with those Victorians. <br /> Always thought her story would make a good movie, what a strange and obsessive love story! The traveling her taxidermy corpse around until winding up in the mental hospital is a real peach though too, isn't it!<br />Her name entered the vernacular in her day and was used as an expression of shock and disgust at anything deemed unsightly.<br />Please give us as much as you got on Julia Pastrana & Thanks againgog magoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00707447788035003267noreply@blogger.com