Rites of passage : death and mourning in Victorian Britain
Flanders, Judith2025
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In 'Rites of Passage', 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.
Main title:
Rites of passage : death and mourning in Victorian Britain / Judith Flanders.
Author:
Flanders, Judith, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2025.
Collation:
x, 341 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2024.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781509817511 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
4079810
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