Researching and writing about cemeteries requires good sourcing, to say the least, and on my reference bookshelf there are three books I cannot do without:
• Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack;
• The American Resting Place: by Marilyn Yalom;
• Stories in Stone: A field guide to cemetery symbolism and iconography by Douglas Keister
Your Guide… [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Book Reviews’
July 21, 2009
Cemetery research: Three valuable reference books
July 13, 2009
Canada’s plein air art galleries
Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory by Jane Irwin, photographed by John de Visser
In her Acknowledgments section, Ms. Irwin notes two reasons why cemeteries are fascinating.
“Cemeteries are set apart from the mundane pressures of our everyday lives, they have an inherent power to provide a brief respite from temporary concerns and a chance to see our [...]
October 2, 2008
Snobs
“If the unfortunate Mr. Temple and his giddy hussy of a wife have [financially] ruined themselves, and dragged down others into their calamity, it is because they loved rank and horses, and plate, and carriages, and Court Guides, and millinery, and would sacrifice it all to attain these objects.”
And with this statement, Thackeray’s little-read [...]
June 5, 2008
Pickpockets…
Pickpockets, Beggars and Ratcatchers:
Life in the Victorian Underworld
Kellow Chesney
369 pages
Konecky & Konecky
(c) 2008 G.E. Anderson
If time travel was possible, Kellow Chesney’s Lonely Planet-styled book would be the guide to take along on a trip as the author has thoroughly documented the various criminal groups common in Victorian times.
In the early decades of Victoria’s reign, [...]
