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Martha Albrand (1914–1981), born Heidi Huberta Freybe Loewengard was a German-American novelist. Albrand was the name of her Danish great-grandfather. She was the sister of the actress Jutta Freybe and the writer Johanna Sibelius. The film Captain Carey, U.S.A. was based on her novel After Midnight.
Feb 7, 2017 · Rafael DeSoto painted this cover for the 1951 Dell paperback edition of Martha Albrand’s 1950 novel Wait for the Dawn. This is one of the author’s many romance thrillers, and what you get is a woman living in France who meets the perfect man, only to find out that he’s a murderous goon. Pretty much every woman will have experienced that ...
Dec 18, 2018 · In most modern cultures, photography has become some sort of defense against death. Funeral services and obituaries frequently feature images of the memorialized in their prime, and images of deceased relatives adorn the walls and tables of countless homes.
Dec 27, 2020 · Contrary to mainstream modern sensibilities about death photos, photographs of loved ones taken posthumously served as an important way of remembering the dead and soothing the pain of loss in Victorian England.
Jun 26, 1981 · Martha Albrand, author of more than 40 novels, many in the genre of mystery and suspense, died Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 66 years old. Miss Albrand , whose real name was...
Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of...
Aug 11, 2022 · The Art of Post-Mortem Photography. Death was ubiquitous throughout the Victorian era due to high mortality rates and the uncontrolled spread of illness. Many individuals devised inventive methods to commemorate the deceased, like Victorian post-mortem photos.
