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Author:   Judith Flanders
Publisher:   Pan Macmillan
Imprint:   Picador
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.585kg
ISBN:  

9781509816972

ISBN 10:   1509816976
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 February 2024
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders, and in Rites of Passage she offers a compelling and often darkly comic history of the period’s fascination with death. Ranging from mourning jewellery to vampires, and from miniature coffins to the opening of Britain’s first crematorium, her book helps modern readers understand what it was like to live at a time when thoughts of not living were as inescapable as gravity. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of <i>Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces</i> and <i>The Turning Point, A Year That Changed Dickens and the World </i>

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Author Website:   http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/

Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2011), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014); Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.

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Author Website:   http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/

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