‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914
(2003)
Journal Article
Strange, J.-M. (2003). ‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914. Mortality, 8(2), 144-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357627031000087398
This essay explores the significance of the grave within working-class cultures of death and bereavement. Drawing on little-used municipal burial board records from the northwest of England, it analyses a culture of trading in grave space alongside t... Read More about ‘Tho’ lost to sight, to memory dear’: pragmatism, sentimentality and working-class attitudes towards the grave, c.1875-1914.