Curious Victorians: Volume X: 150 Morbid Facts About Death, Mourning & The Victorian Afterlife (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249852313)

Death was never far from Victorian life - it lingered in bedrooms, crowded hospitals, factory floors, and black-draped parlours.

In this final volume of the Curious Victorians series, Evelyn Blair explores the era's most unsettling realities: common causes of death, bizarre and tragic accidents, medical experimentation on the dying, elaborate mourning rituals, post-mortem photography, spiritualist obsessions, and society's strange fascination with the afterlife.

From death masks and premature burials to public executions and seances conducted in candlelit drawing rooms, the Victorians did not hide from mortality - they studied it, photographed it, ritualized it, and, at times, commercialized it.

Meticulously researched and deeply atmospheric, Curious Victorians: Volume X is an intellectually unsettling journey into how a civilization both feared and fixated on death.

Some facts disturb. Some haunt.

All are true.

If you have followed the series this far, you already know: the past is rarely polite.