Block Information: Lecture: “The Wife and Lurk of Alexander Turpentine, Esq”

“And, lo, battering, turgid frankness looks long upon your MESMERISING and Despair at the rolling, rolling, tranquil of edges.”

— from On Pencils (1831) by Alexander Turpentine, Esq.

Professor E. Hugh Gilet invites you to explore the almost-forgotten ouevre of Alexander Turpentine, Esq: poet, philosopher, polemicist, and sex pest. Bestriding the London literary scene of the early 1830s, before his ignoble and gin-sodden demise, this event marks the first public lecture on Turpentine's hypnotic quasi-genius.