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Victorian women had intense fan clubs for actors

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Modern celebrity worship has absolutely nothing on nineteenth-century obsession. Highly respectable women formed completely unhinged, deeply intense fan clubs dedicated strictly to obsessively following handsome stage performers, aggressively proving that heavily stalking attractive people entirely predates the internet.

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