The Prestige: the real-life warring Victorian magicians who inspired the film
2022-01-21
The real history of stage magic in the 19th century was as hectic and violent as director Christopher Nolan portrays in The Prestige.Read More →
Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott
Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott recently completed her PhD at the University of Portsmouth on Victorian magician autobiographies and fictional representations of conjuring in 19th-century literature. She has most recently published on illusions in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.