Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood
Drawing Blood
S2 Ep6: Atheist Relics, Couples’ Cremation, and Victorian 'Infidels'
55 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2023 at 8:30 am.
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Emma and Christy look at Alfred Gilbert's sculpture Mors Janua Vitae (c. 1905–1907) at the Royal College of Surgeons, London — a life-sized bronze which houses the remains of the couple Edward and Eliza Macgloghlin. We talk relics and transi tombs; Victorian atheism and the history of unbelief; cremation, miasma, and lead-lined coffins; books bound in human skin; Victorian sex (and free love!); affairs between artists and patrons; Welsh druids; paganism; birth control and the throuple; infidel feminism; and abolishing the family.