Allison C. Meier is a Brooklyn-based writer on art, history, and nature. Previously she was senior editor at Atlas Obscura, and more recently a staff writer at Hyperallergic. Her bylines include the New York Times, CityLab, Curbed, Public Domain Review, Wellcome Collection, JSTOR Daily, Narratively, Mental Floss, and Slate, and she authored the Concrete New York Map released in 2017 by Blue Crow Media. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.

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The Victorian Angel Guides of Death

By ALLISON C. MEIER

Even as these stones romanticize their death, the mortality and harrowing pain of Victorian women haunts these scenes.