Tag: Female

• Little Miss Funeral

  Lauren LeRoy is a funeral director from New York State. Entering mortuary school at nineteen, she had no idea what she was in for. Lauren reflects on her experiences in a male dominated industry and on why her job is so important. This beautiful dedication to her Grandfather’s memory takes us back to a snowy…

  Death and the Maiden

  19/09/2016

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  Care, Career, Change, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Female, Female Identity, Funeral, Funeral Director, Funeral Home, Funeral Industry, Gender Roles, Grief, Tradition

• Shrouds or Lingerie? Traditional Female Burial Garments

  Patricia Lundy explores the relationship between death & the feminine regularly on her beautiful blog Somthng Eldritch. Through exploration of literature and Victorian history Patricia delves into the mourning rituals of a bygone era. In this post sexual suggestion and the male gaze is contemplated by visiting the works of two amazing authors. Kate Mayfield…

  Death and the Maiden

  28/03/2016

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  Anatomy, Beauty, Burial, Burial Shrouds, Chris Woodyard, Deadmaidens, Death, Delicate, Design, Edgar Allan Poe, Exposure, Fashion, Female, Kate Mayfield, Lingerie, Negligee, Objectification, Sexualisation, The Undertaker’s Daughter, The Victorian Book of the Dead, Vulnerability

• The Light Witch

  Photographer Courtney Brooke creates a haunting visual poetry rich in the feminine ties to nature & spirituality. Her images capture a beautifully bleak moment through stunning landscape in a dream like world. With influences such as witchcraft, the romantics, mother earth and death, Brooke explores what it is to exist in a human form.

  Death and the Maiden

  07/03/2016

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  Art, Artist, Beauty, Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Dying, Experiences, Female, Female Identity, Humanity, Life, Photography, Romance, Spirituality, The Light Witch, Time, Visual

• The Female in Mourning Jewels

  Hayden Peters, founder and creative director of Art of Mourning gives us an illustrated tour of female mourning jewellery. Exploring the mourning industry of the 16th-19th centuries we learn about different trends in design and how this reflects cultural attitudes and social norms of the time. From memento mori to locks of hair and cutting diamonds…

  Death and the Maiden

  29/02/2016

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  Art, Art of Mourning, Culture, Design, Fashion, Female, Female Idenity, Gender Roles, History, In Memory, Jewellery, Memento Mori, Mourning, Mourning Practice, Remembrance, Society, Trends, Visual