Monday, May 27
7 pm ET

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Victorian mourning has often been seen as a collection of bizarre and morbid practices. Persistent legends have arisen—and spread on social media—about standing post-mortem photographs, tear bottles, mourning dolls, and unlucky crape. This talk will look at Victorian/Edwardian texts and images in an attempt to sort out fact from fiction in the world of Victorian mourning.

Chris Woodyard is an Ohio writer and historian. She took her degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from The Ohio State University, where her emphasis was on art history. In addition to nine books on Ohio ghost-lore, as well as three volumes of historical ghost stories, she is the author of The Victorian Book of the Dead, on the popular and material culture of Victorian mourning and death and A is for Arsenic: The ABCs of Victorian Death, illustrated by Landis Blair.  

Image: Landis Blair, Convocation