Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

Strange, Julie-Marie.

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 / Julie-Marie Strange. - , New York : Cambridge University Press , 2005. - x, 294p. : 24cm.

Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, and commemoration.

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