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The Victorian Way of Death

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If our own time is obsessed with sex, the Victorian era was obsessed with death.
From death-bed scenes in novels to codes of mourning, from black ear trumpets and befeathered hearses to funny children's rhymes, from the Duke of Wellington's funeral to the pauper grave, Marghanita Laski examines and analyses the Victorian ' death boom
Producer MADELINE JAY Woddis on ... page 73

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Marghanita Laski
Producer:
Madeline Jay
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