: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain Flanders, Judith. creator Judith Flanders. text Ireland : Macmillan ,2024 monographic eng

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x,341p. : 26cm. 'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning Point In Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying. This is an engrossing, deeply researched and, at times, chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change. In elegant, often witty prose, Flanders brings the Victorian way of death vividly to life. / Judith Flanders. Victorian Britain Death and Mourning Rites of Passage 325.54 FLA 9781509816972 : Zafaa Books & Distributors : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi 240515 20240515152522.0