Tag: pre-mature burial

• Waiting For All Hallow’s Eve X: “Those Wild and Crazy Victorians”

  Just when I thought I knew nearly everything about the Victorians, something falls into the lap of my experience that amazes and astonishes even my jaded mind.  The great Age of Victoria (who ruled England from 1840 to 1900) gave us such interesting societal practices that continue to delight us…and frighten us.  The era gave…

  patrickjegan

  October 9, 2014

  Blogging, Creativity, England, Fables & Folklore, History, Holding onto the Past, Melancholy Thoughts, non-fiction

  cemeteries, death, Jack the Ripper, photography of dead people, pre-mature burial, sexual mores of Victorians, Victorian era, Victorian views of death