MOURNING JEWELRY FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA The Victorian era (1919-1901) is famous for it's deeply romantic sentiment, as well as it's tales of hardship and loss. With such a high mortality rate, death was an ever present reality of each day. Women were the public face, the mascot if you will, for the whole family unit- and it fell on their shoulders to express the grief of losing a family member through her personal dress and fulfillment of other societal customs. Widows were