It’s the eternal resting place of philosopher Karl Marx, English novelist Mary Evans—or as she is known by her pen name, George Eliot—and Christina Rossetti, an English poet who wrote the words of two well-known carols “In the Bleak Midwinter” and “Love Came Down at Christmas.”
This year will mark our second Christmas amid a pandemic, which has claimed so many lives, so many dreams and so many of our most cherished family traditions. And so perhaps this is why I am reminded of Highgate Cemetery and the Victorians that built it. They understood how to make beauty in the face of so much loss.
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