Tag: Writer

• This Party’s Dead

  Whenever I talk about The Worst Tuesday, people recoil like I’m a coworker oversharing about a rectal exam. I get the sense I’m being violent. I watch their faces as I speak, notice them flinch and their shoulders tense, even though I only mention words like ‘bloated’ to one or two of the most genuinely…

  Death and the Maiden

  11/06/2018

  Guest Post

  Author, Books, Death, Erica Buist, Grief, Grief Disconnect, Language, Loss, Society, This Party’s Dead, Travel, Unbound, Words Against Death, Writer

• Breakfast, Then Death

  

  This work of short fiction by Claire L. Smith centres on the death of a victim of domestic abuse. Her trauma so embedded, she mindlessly continues her everyday life as she dies. Please note that although this post does not contain graphic descriptions of violence, it does contain graphic descriptions of injury. 

  Death and the Maiden

  11/01/2018

  Guest Post

  Claire L. Smith, Crime, Death, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Violence, Murder, Short Fiction, Story, Victim, Writer

• 199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die

  

  Following the release of Loren Rhoads new book, 199 Cemeteries to see before you Die.

  Death and the Maiden

  12/12/2017

  Lucy Coleman Talbot

  199 Cemeteries To See Before You Die, Activism, Author, Book, Burial, burial ground, Cemetery, Culture, Experiences, Explorer, Graveyard, History, Interview, Loren Rhoads, Social Change, Travel, Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel, Writer

• Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex

  Helen Barrell examines the lives of three apparently ordinary women: Sarah Chesham, Hannah Southgate, and Mary May. 1840s Essex became notorious as a place where women stalked the lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic, though much of the reported horror remains unfounded.

  Death and the Maiden

  31/10/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Arsenic, Burial, Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Essex, Helen Barrell, History, Investigation, Law, Lethal, Murder, Poison, Press, Punishment, Scandal, Trials, Victorian, Writer

• Help Me Bring Them Back From The Dead

  What started as googling, quickly became a visit to California and resulted in a rather sad discovery. In Hollywood, there are so many graves of long-forgotten or barely remembered stars that once shined brightly on the silver screen. This is not how these women should be remembered. Their stories should be told. Remembering them for who they were and…

  Death and the Maiden

  22/08/2016

  Guest Post

  Beauty, Burial, California, Cemetery, Deadmaidens, Death, Film Industry, Forever Silent, Forgotten Stars, Go Fund Me, Graves, History, Hollywood, Marie Prevost, Research, Silent Era, Silent Films, Silver Screen, Writer

• Rest In Pieces

  To celebrate the paperback release of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, author Bess Lovejoy is giving away a signed copy of her book. Rest in Pieces catalogs stories from the age of antiquity to today, tracing the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death and connecting the lives of the famous deceased…

  Death and the Maiden

  08/02/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Bess Lovejoy, Book, Burial, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Embalming, Eva Peron, Evita, Famous Corpses, Female Identity, Gender Roles, History, Lady of Argentina, Rest In Pieces, Ritual, Writer

• Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs

  Historian, Verity Holloway’s first novella Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs is about magic, makeup, crypts, and clownfish. But mostly, it’s about our obsession with keeping the dead around. Here Verity shares how this book began as a few notes and takes us back to her first encounter with the incorrupt body of Saint Spyridon in Corfu.…

  Death and the Maiden

  23/11/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Art, Beauty, Corfu, Deadmaidens, Death, Experiences, Greek Orthodox, History, Martyrs, Religion, Saint Spyridon, Saints, Shrine, Writer

• Tears Become Ideas

  In some places, the ability to sing or recite ritual laments became part of a feminine portfolio of skills, along with cooking, spinning, mending and cleaning. Here, author Sarah Murray shares an adaptation from her wonderful book Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead to give us insight…

  Death and the Maiden

  27/04/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Art, Artist, Beauty, Ceremonies, China, Culture, Deadmaidens, Death, Emotion, Experiences, Expression, Gender Roles, Greece, Grief, History, Ireland, Laments, Mourning, Music, Ritual, Russia, Women, Writer

• Women in the Mourning

  

  Author of The Undertaker’s Daughter, Kate Mayfield is here to take us back in time. A time when women were not public figures in the funeral industry but played important roles ‘behind the scenes’ at her father’s funeral home, Kate’s childhood home.

  Death and the Maiden

  16/02/2015

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Experiences, Funeral, Funeral Home, Gender Roles, Memoir, Private, Public, Society, Undertaker, Women, Writer

• Launch Giveaway

  We are delighted to announce our first post this coming Monday will be from the wonderful Kate Mayfield, author of The Undertaker’s Daughter!

  Death and the Maiden

  09/02/2015

  Announcement

  Deadmaidens, Death, Death and the Maiden, Funeral, Funeral Home, Memoir, Society, Undertaker, Writer