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Acknowledgements 'Dead Boys'; A. S. Byatt Introduction; G.Avery & K.Reynolds The Folklore of Infant Deaths; J.Simpson Child Death in British and North America Ballads from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries; V.Gammon '(An) Impe entombed here doth lie': The Besford Triptych and Child Memorials in Post-Reformation England; N.Llewellyn 'A Heart Terrifying Sorrow': The Deaths of Children in Seventeenth-century Women's Manuscript Journals; E.Clarke Intimations of Immortality: The Puritan and Evangelical Message to Children; G.Avery 'Ye careless, thoughtless, worldly parents, tremble while you read this history!': The Use and Abuse of the Dying Child in the Evangelical Tradition ; E.Jay Children's Death in Dickens: A Chapter in the History of Taste; A.O.J.Cockshut Friedruch Ruckert's Kindertotenlieder ; E.Sagarra Fatal Fantasies: The Death of Children in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy Writing; K.Reynolds Dead Rite: Adolescent Horror Fiction and Death; K.McCarron Reflexions on Dead Children in the Cinema and Why There are Not More of Them; J.O.Thompson Conclusion Part 1: Death, Sex and God: Sociological and Religious Accounts of the Death of the Young; P.Young Conclusion Part 2: Grieving Parents, Grieving Children ; J.Goodall Bibliography Index