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Thanks Sean, that sounds like a good lead.
Gary Crockett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Sawyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: death rituals
> There is an essay on the modes and mores around death and mourning c.1815
by
> Clare Gittings (spelling?) in "Soane and Death," which deals specifically
> with the the death of Sir John Soane's wife, Elizabeth. If this doesn't
> deal with decorating rituals, you might try contacting the Soane Museum,
> either Susan Palmer, the Archivist and Librarian, or Helen Dorey, the
> Assistant Curator.
>
> RIP
> Sean Sawyer
> Executive Director
> Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House Museum
> Brooklyn, NY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Leslie Crockett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: death rituals
>
>
> We want to dress-up a georgian historic house to demonstrate how death was
> managed at home by an anglo middle class family on the death of a
patriach.
>
> I am looking for a reference (hopefully a web site to start with)
detailing
> pre-victorian era customs and beliefs.
>
> Gary Crockett
> Elizabeth Farm
> Sydney Australia
> www.hht.nsw.gov.au
>
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