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Herbert, Kate (20 August 2017). "Moving performances but uneven impact". The Herald-Sun. Durham, NC: McClatchy. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017 . Retrieved 18 September 2017.
Matthews, Robert (14 June 2001), "Two wrongs don't make a right— until someone joins them up", The Sunday Telegraph, archived from the original on 15 April 2010 , retrieved 23 May 2010 Scroll through to the sideshow section and you’ll find MJ dancing with the bones of an ‘elephant man’. Due to his difficult to understand speech, it was first considered that Joseph was intellectually impaired. But it soon became clear that he was an intelligent and sensitive man. In his later years, he found some solace in writing poetry. Toulmin, Vanessa (2007), " 'It was not the show it was the tale that you told': The Life and Legend of Tom Norman, the Silver King", National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield, archived from the original on 10 October 2010 , retrieved 19 May 2010
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a b "Elephant man mystery unravelled", BBC News, 21 July 2003, archived from the original on 9 July 2020 , retrieved 23 May 2010
O'Grady, Sean (10 June 2019). "Year of the Rabbit review: Matt Berry in superb form as drunken and incompetent copper". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 1 September 2019. Visitors could watch a reflective documentary about ‘The Elephant Man’ detailing his life, death at the hospital and his friendship with his doctor. List of Current Fellows". Society of Biology. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 February 2015. Joseph’s deformities progressed until he could no longer perform manual tasks, and without working he could not stay at the workhouse. This was when he made the decision to write to an agent called Sam Torr to ask if he wanted to put him on display in a ‘freak show’. Joseph was taken on as a curiosity attraction called ‘The Elephant Man’ in August 1884. Torr advertised him as “Half-a-Man and Half-an-Elephant” and toured the East Midlands before the show came to London for the winter season. Charlie Heaton is The Elephant Man". BBC. 22 August 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 22 January 2019.David Schofield". Filmbug. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 4 December 2015. Elephant Man' skeleton deserves Christian burial, say campaigners". The Guardian. 9 June 2016. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 10 February 2019. While some of the details did get a little long winded (for example, there was more then enough mentioned on the Victorian Educational System and the achievements of the many Doctors, Showmen, and their contemporaries who studied and worked with Joseph, fascinating though it was) from time to time, it happily includes Joseph's own short Autobiography. One of the bigger squabbles that the writer discusses is were the doctors and showman who cared for Joseph horrible self serving human beings or genuinely nice people? I think it's a mix, especially on the showman's part - I believe the doctors had a genuine compassion for Joseph. And though it hurts on some level to say it, I believe the showman did Joseph a service by allowing him the dignity of work (which for someone of Joseph's proud but gentle nature, was important, especially in an era where you were expected to be a working adult contributing to the household by age 12). I don't believe they were cruel to him, but I don't believe they went out of their way for him as they stated, either, and the showman known to associate with Joseph had a way of coloring the truth. In the hospital basement, two adjacent rooms were specially adapted for him. There was access to the courtyard and no mirrors to remind him of his appearance. Over his last four years spent in the hospital’s care, he enjoyed his life more than he ever had before. Jo Vigor-Mungovin, author of Joseph: The Life, Times & Places of the Elephant Man, claimed to have discovered the location of his burial in be an unmarked grave in the City of London Cemetery and Crematorium.
By this point in his life, his facial deformities had left him incredibly disfigured. They also limited his ability to speak when trying to sell his father’s goods. People would open their doors, surprised to see this poor soul in front of them. But they could not understand his speech, and many were frightened by his appearance. We did have an operation on his face while staying at the workhouse as the protrusion from his mouth had grown to 8–9 inches and severely inhibited his speech and made it difficult to eat. Leicester Union Workhouse c.1880 Human Novelty Exhibitions Durbach, Nadja (2009), "Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining 'the Elephant Man' ", The Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25768-9 New research on Elephant man". BBC News. 28 February 2003. Archived from the original on 21 March 2021 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. With so many books to read and so little time to do so, it is rare that I read a book a second time anymore. This needed to be the exception, especially when I got such a good deal on it for my Kindle. It had been a long time since I had read this story, and I wanted to see whether it would touch me in the same way as it had before.
Vigor-Mungovin, Joanne (2016). Joseph: The Life, Times and Places of the Elephant Man. Ernakulam, Kerala, India: Mango Books. ASIN B01M7YFPSK. Toulmin, Vanessa; Harrison, B. (January 2008). "Norman, Tom (1860–1930)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/73081 . Retrieved 19 June 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Leila attended school in Edinburgh until she was 17 and then went to Paris before her mother died in 1874 and she put her own life on hold to bring up her young brothers and look after her father. His mother died from unknown causes when he was just 11, and his father — also Joseph — soon remarried.
Sherman, Kenneth (1983). Words for Elephant Man. Oakville, Ont., Canada: Mosaic Press. ISBN 0-88962-199-3. OCLC 559821779. Joseph was so unwell with the bronchial infection that he struggled to speak so when he asked for help no one could understand him. But he did still have Dr. Treves calling card so he showed that to the police and the doctor was summoned. He was then taken to London Hospital to be treated on Cotton Ward. London Hospital Joseph (the Elephant Man) was to find employment because of his disabilities and disfigurement. Finally, he got the opportunity to escape this nightmare by being the entertainment in a freak show, he was able to make a decent living by doing this and begin saving money to buy a house. But England at the time was undergoing changes, and many begin to become uneasy with shows that displayed "freaks" and the police started to put an end to them. But this also eventually meant Joseph's only way of earning money was being taken from him. Having been robbed of the money he was saving, he sent a message to a doctor who expressed interest in him while he was part of a freak show. The doctor broke some laws and took care of him into the hospital, eventually, the public began being filled with compassion, and sending in the pounds to provide for Joseph to have his own room where he could read books, visit people and have some enjoyments during the last years of his life. An excellent and obviously well researched biography of this most intriguing man, who can surely be counted as one of the most gentle souls to ever grace us. Dr Treves was able to help with the infection but his deformities were incurable. With such a short lifespan predicted, it was decided he could live the rest of his life at the London Hospital. The two men became close friends and there was public sympathy for Joseph’s plight. With the money raised, he was moved to his own rooms in the basement of the East Wing of the hospital.
The Search For The Elephant Man’s Grave
Cahal Milmo (21 November 2002). "Scientists hope relative can help explain Elephant Man". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022 . Retrieved 27 May 2009. Wikimedia Commons During the Victorian era, freak shows often offered people with disabilities a way of earning income. Treves wrote in his 1923 Reminiscences that Joseph was “the most disgusting specimen of humanity that I had ever seen … at no time had I met with such a degraded or perverted version of a human being as this lone figure displayed.” In addition to his unusual deformities, he also injured his hip as a child and a subsequent infection made him permanently lame, so he used a cane to help himself walk. Vigor-Mungovin, Joanne (2016), Joseph: The Life, Times and Places of the Elephant Man, London: Mango Books, ISBN 978-1911273059
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