Boz and the Ballooning Duke of Brunswick

Abstract

Abstract:This paper documents a previously unremarked topical allusion in "Vauxhall-Gardens by Day," a sketch by Boz first published in the Morning Chronicle on 26 October 1836. It relates to two high-profile ballooning incidents which occurred the previous August, press notice of the consequences of which remained current through the rest of the year. Both incidents involved the notoriously flamboyant and eccentric exiled Duke of Brunswick.