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Berridge, Kate

Kate Berridge started her writing career with obituaries and progressed to writing a book about death, Vigor Mortis. She moved on to Waxing Mythical, a biography of Madame Tussaud. Kate has contributed to a wide range of broadsheets and magazines including Vogue, the Spectator, the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph.

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20061201143432 Kate Berridge on Ricky Jay, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women; Extraordinary Exhibitions - Slightly Foxed Issue 12

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Kate Berridge on Ricky Jay, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women; Extraordinary Exhibitions

Ricky Jay’s Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is an enchantingly idiosyncratic overview of popular entertainments, including those of the title. It also exposes many of the scams on the circuit, my particular favourite being ‘the pig-faced lady’ who in various incarnations over the centuries duped the punters in the form of a bear with shaved head and gloved paws, its bulky body disguised under reams of dress material.

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