Death and the Victorians
A Dark Fascination

Death and the Victorians is an entertaining and interesting read. It covers a wide range of topics including cemeteries, the occult and spiritualism, photography(eg. posing the dead in photos), ghost stories, the rise of sensationalist newspapers and penny dreadfuls, and of course Jack the Ripper. M......more

Hundreds of years ago, at university, I did a course on Death and Mourning in Victorian Literature. I've been obsessed ever since. Give me an opportunity to talk about the overcrowding of graveyards in Victorian London and I'm there for twenty minutes minimum. This tapped right into my interests. I......more

I really enjoyed this book but have the mark in down due to the tangents the author goes on. There are part of the book that are connected to death and the victorians but pages where dedicated to but other parts that where summed up in a paragraph or two but should have been more explored. Regardles......more

Death And The Victorians by Adrian Mackinder is a well written book on the practices of burying their dead during the Victorian age. This book is so good from how they started cremating their dead to having better burying practices from what they did with their deceased battle victims to strange dis......more

This book is insanely entertaining, informative and well researched. I’ve always felt a strange fascination with Victorian times, so this read was like a time machine that allowed me to look at the people who lived those lives. The author makes a good case for the way Victoriana has influenced us th......more