Signal boost

findthatbook is usually for tracking down specific books that people can only vaguely remember. I think some of you could help with this request, though:

I am currently writing my Master's thesis on perceptions of death and proper ways of mourning in Victorian England. I am analyzing samples of life writing and comparing those depicitions of grief and death to examples in popular literature.

I am struggling to find th eliterature though! So far I have Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and possible North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Quote of the day

Even though doctors no longer thought menopausal women were murderous lizard people, cultural ideas about them did not improve.

From this NYT article on perimenopause.