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More amusing Victorian short story titles

July 18, 2013 By Catherine Pope

As my last post on amusing and bizarre Victorian short story titles proved so popular, here are some more of my favourites:

  • Her Majesty the Flapper: Episodes in Her Career
  • Cupid the Entomologist
  • Much-married Grandma
  • In the House of Bondage
  • The Romance of a Pair of Slippers
  • Borrowing a Parrot!
  • Progressive Whist and the Muffin Man
  • The Fatal Ears
  • Carter’s Incandescent Cats
  • Vocation: A Story of Misguided Enthusiasm
  • Other People’s Cake
  • Caveat Emptor: The Story of a Pram
  • A Bottled Villain
  • How the Maiden Saved the Earwigs
  • Limpy, Bachelor of Love
  • The Potted Palm Speaks
  • The Stockings: A Tale of the Last Election
  • Mrs Twiggit’s Mint Sauce
  • A Middle-Aged Cherub
  • The Shrimp in Aspic; or, The Balcony Scene
  • The Nuremberg Living Egg
  • The Celestial Carp
  • Up the River with a Lunatic
  • Warned By a Mouse
  • The Tinned Parrot

Alas, my digitisation project has nearly come to an end, but I shall keep the papal eye open for more examples.

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