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.