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Death and the early modern Englishwoman / Lucinda M. Becker.

Words in pain : letters on life and death / Olga Jacoby ; edited by Jocelyn Catty and Trevor Moore.

Time lived, without its flow / Denise Riley ; introduced by Max Porter.

A woman who holds a physician's hand is being pulled away by a skeleton symbolising death. Colour lithograph after F. Glaubacker, 1928.

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Death and the early modern Englishwoman / Lucinda M. Becker.

Words in pain : letters on life and death / Olga Jacoby ; edited by Jocelyn Catty and Trevor Moore.

Time lived, without its flow / Denise Riley ; introduced by Max Porter.

A woman who holds a physician's hand is being pulled away by a skeleton symbolising death. Colour lithograph after F. Glaubacker, 1928.