Table of Contents

PART 1. DEATH AND DYING
The Evangelical ideal of the 'Good Death'
The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death
Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides
Death and the Victorian Doctors
Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses
'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedy of Children's Deaths
Death in Old Age
In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-1915
PART II. GRIEF AND MOURNING
Introduction to Part II
Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate
The Funeral Week
Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions
The Consolations of Memory
Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters
Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden
'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death
Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War
Notes
Location of Manuscript Collections
Index

Promotional Information

Winner of 1997 New South Wales Premier's History Award

About the Author

Pat Jalland is Associate Professor of History at Murdoch University, WA. From 27 January 1997 she will be Professor of History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University. Her books include Women, Marriage, and Politics 1860-1914, which won the non-fiction prize in the 1987 Western Australia Week Literary Awards.

Reviews

`This is a fascinating book, considering a very interesting topic at what ... is the period of our history which it finds its most enlightening form. Its strength lies in its detail and the picture of individual lives that it creates. This is a welcome addition to the history of the period.'
PW.
`Pat Jalland's research is impressive, drawing on a vast range of resources taken from the archives of 55 Victorian and Edwardian families.'
PW.