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How The Five-Year-Old helped me understand the Victorian practice of posing with their dead

Posted on May 7, 2012 by

Earlier this week while doing some of the never-ending research for my novel-in-progress, Asylum, I came across memento mori, the Victorian practice of posing their dead for photographs. At first, I labeled this as just one more in a long … Continue reading →

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