Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The OED asks for help

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The image above shows the Oxford English Dictionary 's first editor Sir James Murray in the Old Scriptorium during the compilation of...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The island that isn't

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When the whaler Velocity returned from a voyage in the Pacific in 1876, the ship's master reported the sighting of some "Sandy Is...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Unsavory ivory

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Without the company of women for months at a time, 19th c. North American whalers applied their frustration and imagination to the product...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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