num_pages: 340
description: Susannah Ottaway combines a comprehensive survey of existing literature on the history of ageing with original interpretation and analysis of available data. Using a wide variety of sources (literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries), Ottaway's account of the experiences of the aged reveals attitudes in eighteenth-century England that shed light on contemporary aging issues by historical comparison.
language: English
title: The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England
titlecomplete: The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, Series Number 39)
ratings_count: 3
series: Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
publisher: Cambridge University Press