Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781848934016
Subjects: Older people, great britain; Aging
Description: Yallop looks at how people in 18th-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for 'aging' existed at this time, a person's age was a significant aspect of their identity.