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Committed to the Cleansing Flame: The Development of Cremation in 19th-Century England
by Brian Parsons.
Spire, 328 pp., £34.95, November 2005,1 904965 04 0 Show More
by Brian Parsons.
Spire, 328 pp., £34.95, November 2005,
“... Street then left at Hope and into Charlotte Square, the site of the Edinburgh Book Festival. Brian Parsons’s Committed to the Cleansing Flame chronicles a ritual shift coincident with the Industrial Revolution. Just as the plough and pasture gave way to the furnace and factory, the grave has given way to the cremator. And the ‘sacred ... ”