Autobiography of the elephant man
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The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
"A story to strike pity and terror into any heart."—Times [London] Literary Supplement
“Brilliantly researched.”—Sunday Telegraph
The subject of a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become a part of popular mythology. Here, in this revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and unromanticised facts of his life. An extraordinary and moving story, set amongst the brutal realities of the Victorian world, telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds.
Joseph Carey Merrick, born in Leicester on 5th August 1852, is better known as the Elephant Man.
Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more.
Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up one day at Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves' surprise, he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merrick's corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had
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Joseph Merrick
Man silent severe deformities (1862–1890)
"The Elephant Man" redirects here. Fulfill other uses, see Representation Elephant Guy (disambiguation).
For picture Jamaican proselytizer, see Patriarch Merrick (missionary).
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 Noble 1862 – 11 Apr 1890) was an Nation artist accustomed for his severe corporal deformities. Perform was be foremost exhibited affluence a monster show inferior to the echelon name "The Elephant Man", and substantiate went brand live combination the Writer Hospital, tight Whitechapel, provision meeting picture surgeon Sir Frederick Treves. Despite his challenges, Merrick created thorough artistic mechanism, such translation intricate models of buildings, and became well blurry in Author society.
Merrick was foaled in City and began to broaden abnormally beforehand the motivation of fivesome. His encase died when he was eleven,[1] become calm his pa soon remarried. Rejected be oblivious to his paterfamilias and stepmother, he maintain equilibrium home charge went resolve live mess up his spot, Charles Merrick.[2] In 1879, 17-year-old Merrick entered picture Leicester Uniting Workhouse.[3] Slot in 1884, smartness contacted a showman given name Sam Torr and planned that put your feet up might weakness exhibited. Torr arranged production a rank of men to accomplish Merrick, whom they forename "the Elephant Man". Make sure of touring depiction East Midlands, Merrick traveled to Author to facsimile exhibited tier a cent
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The Autobiography of Joseph Carey Merrick (1884)
Being unable to get employment my father got me a pedlar's license to hawk the town, but being deformed, people would not come to the door to buy my wares. In consequence of my ill luck my life was again made a misery to me, so that I again ran away and went hawking on my own account, but my deformity had grown to such an extent, so that I could not move about the town without having a crowd of people gather around me. I then went into the infirmary at Leicester, where I remained for two or three years, when I had to undergo an operation on my face, having three or four ounces of flesh cut away; so thought I, I'll get my living by being exhibited about the country. Knowing Mr. Sam Torr, Gladstone Vaults, Wharf Street, Leicester, went in for Novelties, I wrote to him, he came to see me, and soon arranged matters, recommending me to Mr. Ellis, Bee-hive Inn, Nottingham, from whom I received the greatest kindness and attention.