by ouija77 | Dec 4, 2011 | Victorian mourning
Queen Victoria on the left in her mourning garb admiring a bust of her late husband. Some of the most elaborate and extravagant funerary practices come from our Victorian ancestors. Enjoy these historical oddities and relish in the fact you are alive now, and not...
by ouija77 | Nov 19, 2011 | Mourning photography, Victorian mourning
One of my many morbid little interests in this life is how we as humans have treated death throughout our history, especially during the Victorian era between the years 1837, when Queen Victoria took the throne in England, until her death in 1901. The Victorian era...
