Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'.
Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that
is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying
and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives
(and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling
relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and
experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for
creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in
the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in
Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester,
New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of
colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of
Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer,
Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the
1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of
spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by
images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which
serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the
written word. -- .
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