"Randomly, she selects a grave," goes the chapter that she read out to an audience of earnest local culture seekers.
The fairy godmother is actually Cinderella's mother, speaking from the grave: "Go, my child, go to good, / With all my blessings, go!" she urges.
"Marriage is a woman's grave," goes an old Japanese saying that refers to wives being ignored in favour of mistresses.
He was buried in the Wortham (Texas) Negro Cemetery, and his grave went unmarked until October 15 , 1967 when blues devotees placed a metal marker on the plot; in 1997 it was replaced by a granite headstone.
There is a haunting reference to what lies ahead for her: "A silent wing of your grave went over you" he writes of the moment she glances up towards the hilltops, to a future home.
As part of the trip, which is ostensibly to promote trade ties between the UK and his state, Walker visited former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's grave, went to Brookwood military cemetery in Surrey and watched prime minister's questions from the public gallery.
The grave went without markings to avoid it becoming a rallying point for slaves.
The grave went largely unnoticed until 1938, when a Confederate organization placed a small plaque alongside it.
Fees in new parish cemeteries varied from district to district, but a common grave at the City of London Cemetery at Little Ilford cost only 8s 6d when the cemetery opened (albeit with "1st class" graves going for 17s 6d).
