Death in the Victorian Family

Death in the Victorian Family

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Jalland Pat
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780198208327
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This enthralling book explores the experience of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830-1920. Victorian letters and diaries reveal a deep preoccupation with death because of a shorter life expectancy, a high death rate for infants and children, and a dominant Christian culture. Drawing upon the private correspondence, diaries and death memorial of fifty-five middle and upper class families, Pat Jalland shows us how dying, death and grieving were experience by Victorian families, and how the manner and rituals of death and mourning varied with age, gender, disease, religious belief, family size and class. She examines deathbed scenes, good and bad deaths, funerals and cremations, mourning rituals, widowhood, and the roles of religion and medicine.
EAN 9780198208327
ISBN 0198208324
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date November 4, 1999
Pages 476
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 156 x 27
Country United Kingdom
Authors Jalland Pat
Illustrations 16 pp plates