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Drawing on a wealth of sources - literature, correspondence, poor house and workhouse documents and diaries, the author 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.Ottaway, Susannah R. is the author of 'Decline of Life Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England', published 2008 under ISBN 9780521037921 and ISBN 0521037921.
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