The Nemesis of Neglect
“There floats a phantom on the slum’s foul air Shaping, to eyes which have the gift of seeing,Into the spectre of that loathly lair. Face it – for vain is fleeing.Red-handed, ruthless, furtive, un-erect, 'Tis murderous crime, the nemesis of neglect.” The attached image was drawn in 1888 by John Tenniel (1820–1914), the first illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the same year of the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. The above illustration a...
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