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Savory Sailors or Neptune’s Barber: Sweeney Todd and the Royal Navy

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Claudia Funke

In 1846, the prolific but now-obscure Victorian writer James Malcolm Rymer introduced the notorious Sweeney Todd in the String of Pearls, or, The Barber of Fleet Street: A Domestic Romance. The story of a London barber who kills and robs … Continue reading →

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