ABSTRACT
Introduction; Funerary Exemplars; The New Cemeteries; Pugin; Commemorative Egyptianisms; Conclusion Egypt had maimed us, offered dream for life, an opiate for a kiss and death for both. HILDA DOOLITTLE (MRS RICHARD ALDINGTON [1886–1961]): Egypt (1921), lines 5–8. ‘Tis all one to lye in St Innocents Church-yard, as in the Sands of Ægypt. SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605–82): Hydriotaphia (1658), Ch. V.
