Bedlam - by Jennifer Higgie (Paperback)

Name: Bedlam - by Jennifer Higgie (Paperback)
Brand: Verso
SKU: 1006682128
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The debut novel from one of our most acclaimed art critics takes us into the tortured, strange and surprising mind of the Victorian painter Richard Dadd, painter of fairies and murderer of his father.
About the Author: Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London.
160 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Biographical

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The debut novel from one of our most acclaimed art critics takes us into the tortured, strange and surprising mind of the Victorian painter Richard Dadd, painter of fairies and murderer of his father.

Bedlam is inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital. It's a poetic and considered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.

In 1842 Dadd took a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East. Within a year he had become a devotee of the god Osiris, and then become a killer, acting under the assumed direction of the Egyptian divinity.

About the Author

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Previously the editor of frieze magazine, and the presenter of Bow Down, a podcast about women in art history, she is the author and illustrator of the children's book There's Not One; the editor of The Artist's Joke and the author of The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits, and The Other Side: Women, Art and the Spirit World.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.8 Inches (H) x 5.08 Inches (W)

Weight: .81 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 160

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Biographical

Publisher: Verso

Format: Paperback

Author: Jennifer Higgie

Language: English

Street Date: July 14, 2026

TCIN: 1006682128

UPC: 9781836742043

Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-8966

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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