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Judith Flanders

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain

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Judith Flanders is a renowned historian who has written several books on Victorian Britain, including "Metamorphosis" and "The Turning Point." She explores the intricate customs and practices surrounding death and mourning in Victorian Britain, revealing how living in the nineteenth century was heavily influenced by dying. Her book is an engrossing, deeply researched, and at times chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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.

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.

Weight: 584g
Dimension: 240 x 160 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509816972

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