Louise Welsh gives an excellent account of the tangled historical and literary background to the legend of Sweeney Todd in the Guardian Review.
The book pictured above has just been published, presumably to tie in with the release of the Tim Burton movie, and Welsh says it is likely to become 'the definitive work on the subject'. Sweeney Todd made his first appearance in The String of Pearls, the weekly serial published in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, 'the King of the Penny Dreadfuls'. Pick it up, for a snip, here.
The book pictured above has just been published, presumably to tie in with the release of the Tim Burton movie, and Welsh says it is likely to become 'the definitive work on the subject'. Sweeney Todd made his first appearance in The String of Pearls, the weekly serial published in 1846-7 by Edward Lloyd, 'the King of the Penny Dreadfuls'. Pick it up, for a snip, here.
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