Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 369
s were slightly bowed and tied to-gether with black, and were left thus for months.In England was still deeper gloom. Throughout the Ve.rney Memoirs there looms up 652 Two Centuries of Costume a black bed, which all adown the centuries goes likea Car of Juggernaut from house to house, killingall… … Duchess of Cleveland in Widows Weeds. sojourner. For instance, on the death of Lord Sus-sex, Ralph Verney at once despatched our blackbed to his widow; and no doubt she solemnlyenjoyed its gloomy pomp and elegance of grief fora few weeks. But she speedily found another oldearl for her third husband…
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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