Inspired by the research Steph did for her Halloween story, this week's episode of Femmes Macabres finds Steph and Erin reading through Victorian era newspapers for strange ways people died during the time period.  They also discuss the 19th century outlook on death and mourning and compare it to the death positive movement currently taking the world by storm thanks to organisations like the Order of the Good Death.

Coming up next week on Femmes Macabres: how the radium girls inspired workplace health and safety reform.

Music:

Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Sources:

Bradford, Adam. “Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics, ‘Annabel Lee," and the Communities of Mourning in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 72–100. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41506434.

https://thebabydied.blogspot.com/

https://dying.lovetoknow.com/death-cultures-around-world/behind-victorian-mourning-veil-10-surprising-facts

http://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-mourning-period.html

https://www.history.co.uk/history-of-death/victorians-and-the-art-of-dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DxI8Pn1Uw

https://www.tchevalier.com/fallingangels/bckgrnd/mourning/

https://www.thecollector.com/post-mortem-photography/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/understanding-grief/201812/death-and-mourning-practices-in-the-victorian-age