Death in the Victorian Family - Jalland, Pat (Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University)

Drawing upon the private correspondence, diaries and death memorials of 55 middle- and upper-class families, Pat Jalland shows us how dying, death and grieving were experience by Victorian families. She reveals how the manner and rituals of death and mourning differed according to various factors.