| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Julie-Marie Strange. Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914. (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 294. $85.00.
The shame of pauper burials, the scandal of bodies dissected by medical students, ostentatious funerals, feckless mothers who "buried four" of their children: these stock images are what is best known about death and the Victorian poor. Julie-Marie Strange's remarkable book leaves such stereotypes far behind with a probing and original study of working-class ideas about death and experiences of mourning in the late Victorian and Edwardian years.	1
A monograph on grief, an emotion so intense yet so particularized and varied in its expression, is an ambitious undertaking, and Strange does not shirk her task by using statistical proxies or other devices to simplify and neutralize the subject. Indeed, she defines death and grief broadly: caring for the dying; laying out the body; practices and meanings in funerals, burials, and cemeteries; and family and neighborhood participation in mourning. Her research plan is extremely imaginative. She supplements the hundreds of autobiographies and oral histories she has read so thoughtfully with many other sources. Cemetery and vestry records of all kinds are mined on burials and families' desperate efforts to procure private burial plots and to finance commercial funerals; Poor Law records on pauper burials; Medical Officers of Health notes on sickness and deaths.	. . .

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