penny dreadful in English
noun
1
a cheap, sensational comic or storybook.
To a Victorian audience it would have been even more moving, for on close inspection she is no Greek maiden, but a late-Victorian English rose whose predicament is straight from the pages of a penny dreadful or pocket novella.
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