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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 128700, member: 267&quot;]Death was very personal - people more often died in their homes, not a hospital - wakes and funerals were carried out in the home, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>People were also much influenced by Queen Victoria&#039;s intense mourning over the death of Prince Albert in 1861 - she mandated that only black jewelry could be worn in court until 1880... </p><p><br /></p><p>There was a great culture of mourning and <i>longing</i> expressed in clothes, jewelry, literature, photography and art... Whether it was carried out before or after, a piece like this makes me appreciate a kind of reflection we seem to have lost.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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