by Brian Thompson · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006532200
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«A Monkey Among Crocodiles» is the biography of Georgina Weldon written by Brian Thompson, published by Flamingo in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Biography of Georgina Weldon (1837-1914), a Victorian eccentric. After several love affairs, she eloped with officer Harry Weldon, opened a singing academy, lived with composer Gounod, and ended up in court when her husband tried to have her declared insane. Thompson highlights her talent for self-promotion and her exile in Gisors.
The subtitle of the work is ‘The Disastrous Life of Mrs Georgina Weldon, an Eccentric Victorian’. The work was originally published in 2000 by HarperCollins; this Flamingo edition is from 2001.
For those interested in historical biographies, Victorian England, and eccentric nineteenth-century characters.
Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag, who informed Commander William Riker that "Gagh is always best when served live", the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files, and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movie parody The Extendables.
