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Routledge
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.
Volume 5 Practices and Principles Regarding Community Responsibilities for the Aged in the Seventeenth Century, Volume 6 Practices and Principles Regarding Community Responsibilities for the Aged in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 7 The Diary of Sarah, Lady Cowper, Volume 8 Personal Narratives of Ageing
Biography
Susannah R Ottaway
