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Philology: scientific researches
Reference:

Picard, L. Victorian London. The Death. (Translated by N. G. Krotovskaya)

Abstract: The article contains a review of social stereotypes related to death, reforms and their perception by different layers of the society during the Victorian epoch.


Keywords:

philology, Victorian epoch, death, rituals, the poor and the rich, social organizations, public mourning, the law on burial ground disposal, private grave-yards, Duke of Wellington.


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References
1. F. Engels. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Oxford, 1958.
2. Ch. Dickens. ‘Trading in Death’. In Household Words, London, 1852.
3. J. Richardson. The Annals of London, London, 2000.
4. A. N. Wilson. The Victorians. London, 2002.
5. J. Litten. The English Way of Death. London, 1991.
6. A. R. Bennett. London and Londoners in 1850s and 60s. London, 1924.
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