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The Decline of Life - Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
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The Decline of Life - Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
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The Decline of Life is an ambitious and absorbing study of old age
in eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a wealth of sources -
literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and
diaries - Susannah Ottaway considers a wide range of experiences
and expectations of age in the period, and demonstrates that the
central concern of ageing individuals was to continue to live as
independently as possible into their last days. Ageing men and
women stayed closely connected to their families and communities,
in relationships characterized by mutual support and reciprocal
obligations. Despite these aspects of continuity, however, older
individuals' ability to maintain their autonomy, and the nature of
the support available to them once they did fall into necessity
declined significantly in the last decades of the century. As a
result, old age was increasingly marginalized. Historical
demographers, historical gerontologists, sociologists, social
historians and women's historians will find this book essential
reading.
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