Ep. 109 - The Fascinating Funeral Industry of the 19th Century

In this episode, Genevieve will discuss the funeral industry of the 19th century and a few of her favorite death-centered professions that are no longer in high demand today, but were positively fascinating: funeral cookie bakers, corpse-watchers, mutes and professional mourners. 

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References:

https://funeral.com/blogs/the-journal/funeral-biscuits-in-the-1800s-what-they-were-why-they-were-served-and-how-to-make-them-today?srsltid=AfmBOorry4RZkCYT3pQ2iGryb0LGfYJ-xZYnlhN6e4pYP5dl7Jb_SHwo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin-eater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_edition_of_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica

https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/england/englishness-funeral-food.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_biscuit

https://www.victorianlondon.org/death/characteroffunerals.htm

https://austins.co.uk/blog/the-history-of-the-victorian-mute/

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/tag/professional-mourners

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/alma%3A99127049613408651

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15792/pg15792-images.html

https://thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/category/buried-alive/

“Prematurely Buried” - Kilmore Free Press, Jan. 18th 1883.

“Narrowly Escaped Burial Alive” - The Clinton Independent, Thursday Feb. 18th, 1892.