TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flanders,Judith
TI  - Rites of passage: death and mourning in Victorian Britain 
SN  - 9781509816972 (hbk.) :
AV  - GT3243 
U1  - 393.0941 FLA 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Family and Relationships
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
KW  - thema
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - Cultural studies: customs & traditions
KW  - Sociology: death & dying
N2  - 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
ER  -