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.