John Wolfe Great Deaths: Grieving.

John Wolfe Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. modern York: Oxford University Press. 2000 Pp x 331 $4995 ISBN 0-19-726238-4

Stanhope Forbes' painting "Reading the moderns of the Queen's death in a Cornish Cottage," upon the dust jacket of John Wolffe's recent book captures its main claim beautifully. The white bearded grandfather of a poor if it were not that respectable family sits with his back to a luminous window absorbed in a newspaper, that mark of a print agriculture that both creates and delimits a national community. A young

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