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Widow's Weeds and Weeping Veils: Mourning Rituals in 19th Century America by Bernadette Loeffel-Atkins

Widow's Weeds and Weeping Veils: Mourning Rituals in 19th Century America

Bernadette Loeffel-Atkins

56 pages paperback 2012

2 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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During the 19th century, death shadowed daily life. A high infant mortality rate, poor sanitation, risk during childbirth, poisons, ignorance, and war kept 19th-century Americans busy practicing the ritual of mourning. The Victorian era in both Eu...

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