Victorian Mourning Jewelry, containing a lock of hair from the deceased Source: Thayne Tuason [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons There were rules of what men and women should wear in each ...

As a result, 'mourning portraits' became a popular custom amongst 19th century society. A mother and daughter are pictured left in mourning dress in the Ballarat area of Victoria, Australia in a ...

Victorian life was suffused with death. Epidemics such as diphtheria, typhus and cholera scarred the country, and from 1861 the bereaved Queen made mourning fashionable.

Source: Carl Rudolph Sohn (1845-1908) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian society of the late 1800s was obsessed with death. Queen Victoria set the tone for this after the death ...