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HOUG/HB/2
Title
Newspaper cutting with notice of the death of Countess Cornelia Zangari Bandi
Date(s)
- [1862?] (Creation)
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1 newspaper cutting.
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Reported as if recent, citing the pamphlet published by 'Dr Bianchi' [Giuseppe Bianchini, published in 1731]. Her death is often cited as a possible case of spontaneous human combustion and was mentioned by Charles Dickens in the preface to Bleak House.
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N.B. - A letter from Robert Pemberton Milnes to Annabella Hungerford Milnes, [May 1857?], refers to having sent 'your account of the horrid burning to Har[rie]t - desiring her to send it to Jane [milnes], who delights in every thing that is dreadful...'. Perhaps connected?