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Sunday, May 7 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Steampunk and Fashionable Death: Victorian Mourning and Funerary Arts

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Steampunk and Fashionable Death: Victorian Mourning and Funerary Arts

With D’arcy Austen FRS

A discussion of Victorian funerary and memorial traditions, including memento mori, the stages of mourning, the impact of the United States Civil War, and the foundation of the famous Victorian Garden Cemeteries.

Some material may be upsetting to small children.

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D'arcy Austen, FRS

President, Childe Magnus Productions
Sex and death in the Victorian Era! Learn how a father-son talk about the birds and bees indirectly lead to the Gothic Victorian Era we all know and love. I have been studying Thanatology (the science of death) for over 20 years, specialising in Victorian cemeteries and mourning... Read More →

Sunday May 7, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
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