De Mortuis
Christopher Driver, 28 June 1990
The Ruffian on the Stair: Reflection on Death
edited by Rosemary Dinnage.
Viking, 291 pp., £14.99, April 1990,0 670 82763 0 Show More
edited by Rosemary Dinnage.
Viking, 291 pp., £14.99, April 1990,
Death, Ritual and Bereavement
edited by Ralph Houlbrooke.
Routledge, 250 pp., £35, October 1990,0 415 01165 5 Show More
edited by Ralph Houlbrooke.
Routledge, 250 pp., £35, October 1990,
In the Face of Death
by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll.
Viking, 254 pp., £15.99, April 1990,0 670 80703 6 Show More
by Peter Noll, translated by Hans Noll.
Viking, 254 pp., £15.99, April 1990,
“... doubtless has roots deeper than I care to explore, but my late father used to make a point of reading Jeremy Taylor’s ‘Holy Dying’ to alleviate the Christmas ordeal and his father was orphaned as a baby. Chance put Geoffrey Gorer’s pioneer study of Death, Grief and Mourning (1965), dust-jacketed in tasteful purple, into my hands for a review. An ... ”