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Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders memoir as Sam Lee tells theIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally to modern eyes bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain. Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth century Britain was,