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https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Victorian-Society-default.jpg1200675In Death and the Victorians, author Adrian Mackinder explores the dark side of the nineteenth century, when hunger for truth about what lies beyond the grave was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it.