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Blog about death and mourning in Victorian Era
During the Victorian Era people had a fascination with death. On this webpage it mentions that girls would sometimes wear white dresses as their mourning clothes. This is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson, who is said to have always worn white dresses, and she alluded to the color white in “Dare you see a soul at White Heat. This fascination with death and significance of the color white in the Victorian Era could account for Emily’s own attention to death in her poems and liking the color white.
Webpage about momento mori
This furthers the notion of morbidity surrounding the Victorian Era. It was popular to take post-mortem photographs, especially of children, as a momento mori
Emily Dickinson on Death 