Austerity baby / / Janet Wolff.
"Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third R...
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Wolff, Janet, author. Austerity baby / Janet Wolff. Manchester University Press 2017 Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (iv, 262 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, facsimiles, portraits ; digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Includes bibliographical references. Open access Unrestricted online access star 1. Atlantic moves --2. Provincial matters --3. Aliens -- 4. Colour (mainly blue) --5. Austerity baby --6. Tante Leonie --7. Houses and barns --8. Philately and chemistry --9. Spinster --10. Annunciation --Postscript --Acknowledgements --Family trees --Image credits --Bibliography. "Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word." Also available in print form. Description based on print version record and e-publication, viewed on January 16, 2018. English This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Wolff, Janet Family. Art critics England Manchester. Art and society. Jews Social conditions 20th century Biography. Jewish families Biography. Jewish families England. England Manchester. fast (OCoLC)fst01212972 1900-1999 fast second world war manchester uk spinsters exile displacement henry simon of manchester eleanor rathbone third reich art fridtjof nansen rochester new york Manchester 1-5261-2130-1 1-5261-2129-8 |
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