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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Talk/Panel Discussion
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Tickets from £12.50
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Over 16
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Thu, 16th Oct 2025 @ 19:00 - 21:00
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19:00 - 21:00
How were women
remembered in Victorian cemeteries? Were they always cast as
‘beloved wives’ or ‘devoted daughters’ beneath grand, angel-topped
headstones — or do we find more nuanced tributes etched in
stone?
Emma Liggins explores the language of epitaphs and the symbolism of
angel monuments and grave design in Highgate Cemetery (London) and
Southern Cemetery (Manchester). It considers how the commemoration
of women both echoed and complicated the Victorian ‘celebration of
death’.
By comparing family headstones with memorial cards shared before
and after funerals, the talk uncovers how the image of the grieving
woman — draped in sorrow over a tomb — became an enduring motif of
19th-century mourning culture.
Emma
Liggins
Emma Liggins is a
Reader in English Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University
and Co-Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. An
expert on women’s writing, ghost stories, and Victorian mourning
culture, she has published extensively on the New Woman, sensation
fiction, and Gothic literature, including The Haunted House in
Women’s Ghost Stories and Odd Women? Spinsters, Lesbians and Widows
in British Women’s Fiction.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Gothic Angels | 19:00 - 21:30 | £12.50 |
Location
Address
The Chapel: HIghgate Cemetery West, Swains Lane, London, N6 6PJ
Nearest Station
Archway (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
An annual festival of walks, talks, workshops and performances to entertain and inform on the subjects of mortality and the city with the best historians, experts, guides, performers and storytellers.
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