Death in the Victorian Family
This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and...
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This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.
List of PlatesIntroduction11The Evangelical Ideal of the 'Good Death'172The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death393Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides594Death and the Victorian Doctors775Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses986'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedies of Children's Deaths1197Death in Old Age1438In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-19151619Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate19410The Funeral Week21011Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood23012Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood25113Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions26514The Consolations of Memory28415Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters30016Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden31817'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death33918Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War358Notes382Location of Manuscript Collections443Index447
