There's been a fair amount of work done on the celebrity mourning thing, and I'd have to reference it in passing in any book-length work on the subject before. The mourning of the entirely fictional, however, is this area that there's a dearth of thorough material on, despite a lot of known (and suspected -- the Sherlock Holmes issue is quite murky and complex) incidences of it.
There was also a rash of entrepreneurs in the late 19th-century that bought grave plots and put up headstones for fictional characters and then charged money for people to visit.
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There's been a fair amount of work done on the celebrity mourning thing, and I'd have to reference it in passing in any book-length work on the subject before. The mourning of the entirely fictional, however, is this area that there's a dearth of thorough material on, despite a lot of known (and suspected -- the Sherlock Holmes issue is quite murky and complex) incidences of it.
There was also a rash of entrepreneurs in the late 19th-century that bought grave plots and put up headstones for fictional characters and then charged money for people to visit.