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Elegy for Sylvia: Ted Hughes’ Birthday Letters

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on August 18, 2016August 18, 2016

Featured Image: Sylvia Plath’s grave in West Yorkshire, England (Flickr/ UncleBucko ) via WNYC (desaturated for this blog…

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  • Death and Mourning

The Dead and their Ghostly Baggage of Superstitions

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on July 1, 2016July 1, 2016

Featured image via the enchanting WhiteWit.Ch. I haven’t posted an original blog post for a couple…

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Mourning Baubles and Morbid Trinkets

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on May 13, 2016May 13, 2016

I’ve always been drawn to Victorian mourning rituals, especially the regalia of full mourning attire…

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Coffins Vs. Caskets

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on April 14, 2016April 14, 2016

Is there a difference between the two? As it turns out, yes. Clifford A. Pickover,…

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Poems of Mourning: Graveyard Poets,Child Elegies, and the Young Dead Woman

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on April 7, 2016April 18, 2016

A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets book Poems of…

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A Funeral of White and Gold for the Queen Who Donned Only Black

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016

Last week I finished my online course “Investigating the Victorians” through Oxford’s Department of Continuing…

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Soak Up Your Guinness and Jameson with an Irish Wake Cake

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 17, 2016March 17, 2016

I love holidays because they make an otherwise normal week something special, and also allow…

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Dispelling Misconceptions About Post-Mortem Photography

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 14, 2016March 14, 2016

Featured Image: The Thanatos Archive’s website banner. The Archive’s mission is to “collect, preserve, and…

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We’re Seeking New Ways of Mourning Collectively

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 4, 2016

How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole:…

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Shrouds or Lingerie? Traditional Female Burial Garments

  • by Patricia
  • Posted on March 3, 2016March 3, 2016

shroud noun 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead…

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