Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914Cambridge University Press, 2005 M07 25 - 294 pages With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history. |
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... Century : Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture 4 Phil Withington The Politics of Commonwealth : Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England 5 Mark S. Dawson Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London 6 Julie - Marie ...
... Century : Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture 4 Phil Withington The Politics of Commonwealth : Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England 5 Mark S. Dawson Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London 6 Julie - Marie ...
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... century. As the extracts above demonstrate, the two funerals are easily juxtaposed as binary 2 1 'The Pauper's Drive' by Thomas Noel cited in full in A. Wilson and H. Levy, Burial Reform and Funeral Costs (London: Oxford University ...
... century. As the extracts above demonstrate, the two funerals are easily juxtaposed as binary 2 1 'The Pauper's Drive' by Thomas Noel cited in full in A. Wilson and H. Levy, Burial Reform and Funeral Costs (London: Oxford University ...
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... century as a period of booming consumer culture , expanding life insurance schemes and punitive attitudes towards poverty . The poet Thomas Noel is well known for championing the cause of the poor but historical perceptions of the ...
... century as a period of booming consumer culture , expanding life insurance schemes and punitive attitudes towards poverty . The poet Thomas Noel is well known for championing the cause of the poor but historical perceptions of the ...
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... Centuries ' in R. Houlbrooke ( ed . ) , Death , Ritual and Bereavement ( London : Routledge , 1989 ) , 95-104 , S ... Century Cemeteries : Sources and Methods ' , The Local Historian , 28 , 3 ( 1998 ) , 130–44 , P. Jupp , ' Enon ...
... Centuries ' in R. Houlbrooke ( ed . ) , Death , Ritual and Bereavement ( London : Routledge , 1989 ) , 95-104 , S ... Century Cemeteries : Sources and Methods ' , The Local Historian , 28 , 3 ( 1998 ) , 130–44 , P. Jupp , ' Enon ...
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... century, poor law guardians increasingly refused to co-operate with the demands of anatomical schools. Indeed, Richardson concedes that the principal 'sub-text' in antipathy to the pauper burial by the end of the period was ...
... century, poor law guardians increasingly refused to co-operate with the demands of anatomical schools. Indeed, Richardson concedes that the principal 'sub-text' in antipathy to the pauper burial by the end of the period was ...
Contents
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2 Life sickness and death | 27 |
3 Caring for the corpse | 66 |
4 The funeral | 98 |
reassessing the pauper burial | 131 |
the cemetery as a landscape for grief | 163 |
7 Loss memory and the management of feeling | 194 |
8 Grieving for dead children | 230 |
death grief and the Great War | 263 |
Bibliography | 274 |
Index | 290 |
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