Death in the Victorian family
Drawing upon the private correspondence, diaries and death memorials of 55 middle- and upper-class families, Pat Jalland shows us how dying, death and grieving were experience by Victorian families. She reveals how the manner and rituals of death and mourning differed according to various factors.
History
476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 24 cm
9780198208327, 0198208324
1005997751
PART 1. DEATH AND DYING ; The Evangelical ideal of the 'Good Death' ; The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death ; Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides ; Death and the Victorian Doctors ; Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses ; 'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedy of Children's Deaths ; Death in Old Age ; In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-1915 ; PART II. GRIEF AND MOURNING ; Introduction to Part II ; Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate ; The Funeral Week ; Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood ; Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood ; Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions ; The Consolations of Memory ; Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters ; Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden ; 'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death ; Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War ; Notes ; Location of Manuscript Collections ; Index
Originally published: 1996