1. S. M. Gilbert (2006), Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve (New York: Norton and Co.), p. xvii.
2. R. Richardson (2001 edn), Death, Dissection and the Destitute (London: Phoenix Press).
3. See, for example, J. S. Stephenson (1985), Death, Grief and Mourning: Individual and Social Realities (New York: Free Press).
4. See J. Whaley (ed.) (1981), Mirrors of Mortality: Studies in the Social History of Death (New York: St. Martin’s Press).
5. J. Benson (1989), The Working Class in Britain, 1850–1939, (New York and London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd).