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… playwrights ( William Kenrick ) targeting the city’s merchants, bankers and the decline of aristocratic families. The taste for turtle flesh was such a prominent and controversial mania that a satirical alderman character named ‘Mr Turtle’ … scattered broadsides. Seen as cautionary tales to others, reports of exotic animal accidents appealed to the Georgians’ taste of fear and horrific amusement. Unable to restrain their curiosity and their need of close proximity with wild …
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