Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the DeadMain MenuFleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public HealthFirst SectionDying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and MourningSecond SectionWearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of DeathThird SectionUp and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-SnatchingFourth SectionWeird Science: Anatomical Use of the DeadFifth SectionWorks Cited/Full-Texts/Further ReadingsKyle Brett425ed005fc457ac8e436783036f285b42b192fb4
Mourning Fashion
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These articles, published throughout the century, serve as an overview for the best attire and practices for "fashionable mourning," outlining the trends in female attire and qualities of mourning during the period. Particularly of note is the need for these articles to provide a critique of the fashion of the moment in something so private as mourning. Here we see a social need to be in fashion even while experiencing private forms of grief. We are left asking: What is the purpose of fashionable mourning? Is it just for the dead, or is the emphasis on the status and culturally-appropriate fashion of the mourners?