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A “BODY” OF EVIDENCE: THE POSTHUMOUS PRESENTATION OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2012

Justin D. Livingstone
Justin D. Livingstone*
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University of Edinburgh
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It is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public throng, in mourning for its national hero. Later he is laid to rest in a chockablock Westminster Abbey, a public symbol of the national interest vested in Livingstone (See Figure 1).

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , March 2012 , pp. 1 - 24
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