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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating read
A friend of mine gave me this wonderful book. It talks about general attitudes towards death and dying in the 19th Century. It goes heavily into the different types of 19th Century cemeteries, including private cemeteries and garden cemeteries. It explains how things began to change bringing the raise of cremation and how things ended up at the eventual end of the...
Published on January 25, 2009 by Keri Van Zeyst
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring
This could have been a very interesting topic, but the writing is boring and repetitive. I gave up after page sixteen.
Published 3 months ago by fairy-whispers
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A fascinating read,
By Keri Van Zeyst (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Victorian Celebration of Death (Paperback)
A friend of mine gave me this wonderful book. It talks about general attitudes towards death and dying in the 19th Century. It goes heavily into the different types of 19th Century cemeteries, including private cemeteries and garden cemeteries. It explains how things began to change bringing the raise of cremation and how things ended up at the eventual end of the Victorian era. There are some great photographs in the book of grand cemeteries and fabulous engravings of churches. The author also makes some very interesting architectural observations...it's really a unique book and ever so interesting.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Victorian Celebration of Death (Hardcover)
This is a great book! It has more information than you will ever want, but it has wonderful gems of information that make it a great read. I photograph cemeteries and love the history of cemeteries, so it was fun and useful for my purposes.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring,
By fairy-whispers (Qld, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Victorian Celebration of Death (Paperback)
This could have been a very interesting topic, but the writing is boring and repetitive. I gave up after page sixteen.
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The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl (Paperback - January 25, 2005)
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