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Penny Gush No 1

Fanzine that explores the weird and wonderful aspects of 19th-century history.

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“In Sheridan Le Fanu’s gothic ghost story ‘The Mysterious Lodger’, a respirator is worn by the sinister title character who is rarely seen without his green spectacles, respirator, and buttoned-up frock coat. (Green spectacles, used to correct a variety of eye conditions, are a little like the respirator in that they appear as an object of mockery in contemporary fiction.)”

PENNY GUSH is a fanzine that explores the weird and wonderful aspects of 19th-century history.

Issue 1 examines the Jeffreys respirator, a medical device invented in 1836 as an aid to those with various respiratory diseases, but also a device that became associated with quackery and hypochondriac spinsters, described by a contemporary periodical looking like a “passport to the realms of suffering and death”.

The zine is an experiment in academic publishing, with historian Jennifer Wallis presenting extensive research drawn from archives and primary sources in a format that attests to the ‘messiness’ of both historical research and the stories we tell about medicine and technology.

Size: 210mm x 297mm (A4)

Page Count: 26

Binding: Staples

Publisher/Editor/Author: Jennifer Wallis

Illustrated: Antiquarian prints and ads / Colour

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Jennifer Wallis

JENNIFER WALLIS is a historian and lecturer based in the UK. Her recent publications include the edited volume Fight Your Own War: Power Electronics and Noise Culture (Headpress, 2016) and ‘Small screen shockers: Rape-revenge narratives in the made-for-TV movie’ in Julian Petley and Xavier Mendik (eds), Shocking Cinema of the 70s (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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