John Wisden & Co as the publisher of the "Cricketers' Almanack". It is now an imprint of Wisden's owner, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Wisden died of cancer, at the age of 57, in the flat above his Cranbourn Street shop (next to Leicester Square tube station). He was buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. In 1913, 29 years after his death, he was the subject of a "Special Portrait" in the 50th edition of Wisden, replacing the usual Wisden Cricketers of the Year feature which was dropped from that edition. In 1984, a headstone was placed at his grave to mark the centenary of
A Child Is Born (book) that the book was so culturally influential as to have mediated and to some extent determined the way pregnant women understand their own pregnancies. Images from the book were sent into space aboard the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" space probes. The American Library Association regards it, alongside "Gray's Anatomy", as a core medical reference work for libraries. The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus "in utero". In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's "The First Nine Months Of Life" had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. The images played