This dissertation’s focus is finding evidence of grief for women who died in childbirth in the Victorian era. The grief and mourning practices of the era were researched, with extra focus on what was expected from masculine mourning of the husbands. The attributed identities, in life and in death, of these women and their place in society was also researched and parturition medical procedures of the time were called into question. This was accomplished by researching primary sources such as cemetery records, gravestones, letters, diaries, newspapers, and interviews relating to the Victorian era.  Evidence of grief and mourning for women who died in childbirth was found in all sources. It was found that expected masculine mourning and the grief husbands felt for their lost wives often did not correlate, leaving husbands with no proper outlet for their grief. On their graves and in records, these women were labelled with the societal roles they carried in life instead of the roles they fought for before death. A main limitation found was the archival classism presented in the lack of representation of the working class in lasting archives.