IN WILLIAM POWELL FRITH’S
The Lover’s Seat (this page),
Percy and Mary court in
St. Pancras churchyard
(opposite), which was also the
haunt of “resurrection men,” who
dug up bodies and sold them
to medical students. In a scene
from A Tale of Two Cities set in
this churchyard, Charles Dickens
called the process “fishing.”
18 LIFE FRANKENSTEIN