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Bed rotting: the social media trend the Victorians would love, especially writer Elizabeth Gaskell
Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon, Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, likens the latest TikTok 'bed-rotting' trend to the romanticising of sickly women by artists and writers of the 19th century.
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