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| Victorian Timetable of Family Mourning; What a weird read | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Oct 14 2006, 05:02 AM Post #1 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Was reading something today that was both very interesting and very insane. Queen Victoria was out of her gourd, that much I know for certain. Anyways, check this out if you want to learn something entirely useless and random (but interesting): VICTORIAN MOURNING After her death of her beloved Albert in 1861, Queen Victoria set the standard for mourning. Befitting the age, outward displays were key: grief was represented on many levels, from the use of black-lined stationery and jet-black jewelry to elaborate funeral arrangements and periods of self-imposed social exile. Curiously, the period of mourning was decided not by personal sentiment but by a socially understood timetable of grief. For example: Death of…………Period of mourning Husband……..….2-3 years Wife……....………three months Parent/Child……one year Sibling………..….six months Etc. These individual mourning periods were themselves subdivided into first mourning, second mourning, ordinary, and half-mourning. By tradition first mourning was the deepest and lasted a year and a day. Each of these periods had its own subtle code – down to the shade of black, the types of cloth worn, and the width of hat-bands. Older children were expected to mourn alongside their parents, but often very young children were excused mourning dress. Servants’ Mourning was normally considered appropriate after the death of a senior member of the household; when imposed, it usually lasted for at least six months. Never one to do things by half, Victoria wore mourning dress for the forty years until her death. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 14 2006, 05:13 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Husband.. 2-3 years.. wife - 3 months. Hmmmm. A lot more people died young then. Seems like you'd be in mourning all the time. But then I've never thought Victorian England the era I'd like to live in anyway. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| DivaDeb | Oct 14 2006, 05:55 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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that disparity was probably an attempt to prevent the springing up of a special branch of the world's oldest profession to service men in mourning. Mommy dies in childbirth...older kids still in 'official' mourning...man calls in Women in Black for a good time. |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 14 2006, 06:01 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I love entreprenuerial spirit in a woman.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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