“Ah even in death he is beautiful, beautiful in death, as one that hath fallen on sleep.” Thus did Percy Bysshe Shelley describe the tuberculosis death of his friend John ...
Carolyn Day
Carolyn A. Day is an associate professor at Furman University, where she teaches British history and the history of medicine. Her research focuses on the social space occupied by tuberculosis (consumption) and the relationship among fashionable women’s clothing, beauty, and illness in Britain. She is the author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease (2017). 