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Preface
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England part 1: Bedfordshire and Berkshire
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England part 2: Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire
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England part 3: Cheshire and Cornwall
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England part 4: Derbyshire and Devonshire
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England part 5: Dorsetshire, Durham, and Essex
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England part 6: Gloucestershire and Hampshire
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England part 7: Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Kent
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England part 8: Lancashire and Lincolnshire
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England part 9: Middlesex and Monmouthshire
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England part 10: Norfolk and Northamptonshire
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England part 11: Nottinghamshire, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, and Shropshire
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England part 12: Somersetshire, Staffordshire, and Suffolk
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England part 13: Surrey and Sussex
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England part 14: Warwickshire, Westmoreland and Wiltshire
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England part 15: Worcestershire and Yorkshire
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Wales
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Scotland
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Miscellaneous part 1
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Miscellaneous part 2
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Miscellaneous part 3
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Miscellaneous part 4
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Miscellaneous part 5
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Miscellaneous part 6
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Miscellaneous part 7
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Miscellaneous part 8
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Miscellaneous Part 9
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About this book
Gravestones preserve jokes as well as grief in Horatio Edward Norfolk's collection of British epitaphs. Arranged through English counties, with further sections for Wales, Scotland and miscellaneous inscriptions, the volume gathers memorial verses whose odd wording often carries a story of its own. Norfolk introduces the collection by comparing burial inscriptions across cultures and explaining his interest in the quaint and absurd.
The entries move between family affection, religious hope, sharp complaints and puns on names or occupations. A bellows maker's memorial turns on the breath he could never manufacture, while other verses remember a faithful worker or mourn an unreturned love. More solemn inscriptions sit alongside the comic ones, giving the collection a changing tone.
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- Horatio Edward Norfolk
- Reading time
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- Pages
- 156
- Language
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