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In today's episode, Genevieve covers the life and mysterious death of beloved gothic fiction writer, Edgar Allan Poe.
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References for today's episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a45782209/edgar-allan-poe-death-mystery/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/
In this week's episode, Genevieve talks about elaborate Victorian funeral traditions, what was, and was not, acceptable mourning fashion of the day, Queen Victoria’s obsession with her dead husband that sparked the trends, the hardship and power of 19th-century widowhood, as well as the almost fetishistic keepsaking of the deceased.
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In this episode, Genevieve covers the mysterious death of Octavia Hatcher – a women who died in 1891 who, according to legend, was buried alive.
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