“The poor do not need long epitaphs”: the provenance of some West Country memorials

By Michael Weller

Issue 19, Spring, 2009 pp.36-41.

An epitaph may be defined as something written about the dead. Often epitaphs found on gravestones and memorials are wholly or in part some fitting quotation or poem which, from the perspective of the bereaved, seems to befit the departed. In this article, Michael Weller explores the provenance of those epitaphs found on gravestones of south west England, and the very different form of writing found on memorial plaques and the like.


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