Featured Image: Sylvia Plath’s grave in West Yorkshire, England (Flickr/ UncleBucko ) via WNYC (desaturated for this blog…
Tag: mourning
Featured image via the enchanting WhiteWit.Ch. I haven’t posted an original blog post for a couple…
I’ve always been drawn to Victorian mourning rituals, especially the regalia of full mourning attire…
Is there a difference between the two? As it turns out, yes. Clifford A. Pickover,…
A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets book Poems of…
Last week I finished my online course “Investigating the Victorians” through Oxford’s Department of Continuing…
I love holidays because they make an otherwise normal week something special, and also allow…
Featured Image: The Thanatos Archive’s website banner. The Archive’s mission is to “collect, preserve, and…
How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole:…
shroud noun 1. a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead…
