Victorian Celebration of Death
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Professor Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death. It includes disposal of the dead, landscaped cemeteries funerals and more.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductory Remarks; The Victorian Age; Afterword1The Genesis of Victorian Attitudes to Death12The First Great Private Cemeteries in Britain373The Garden-Cemetery Flourishes694Crisis, Uncertainty, and Change1095More Private and a Selection of Public Cemeteries1406The Rise of Cremation1767Funerals, Ephemera, and Mourning1948Royal Funerals2229The End of the Victorian Era249Notes269Select Bibliography283Index304
