Featured Image: Kingdom of Heaven (1891) by Frank Bramley. For the Victorians, there were a…
Category: Death and Mourning
Photo: Mabel Ryan and Blanche Ryan in mourning clothes, taking tea in the garden, wearing mourning…
Featured Image: “Victorian Mother and Child.” Artist unknown. Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/victorian-mother-and-child-168395 As early as eight years old,…
Featured photo: the Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Chicago, IL. Source: http://www.atour.com/history/landmarks/20130731a.html. Who are the Assyrians?…
Image: illustrated image of Mary Toft, a British woman who in 1726 claimed that…
‘What did a poor woman work for, but in hopes that she should be put…
Image: “Vintage Funeral Little Girl Pallbearers Little Casket Old Time Funeral Children” via superiorview on…
As I’m continuing to read The Work of the Dead by Thomas W. Laqueur and examining…
Photo: 2013, unnamed cemetery outside of Oxfordshire, U.K. This week I began reading The Work…
Featured image: Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Mourning-Dress ; Bonnets.” The…
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