scholarly journals Early-Life Assets in Oldest-Old Age: Evidence From Primary Care Reform in Early Twentieth Century Sweden

Demography ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 679-706
Author(s):  
Volha Lazuka
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Oldest Old ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Primary Care Reform

Marianne Farningham: Work, Leisure, and the Use of Time

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 343-355
Author(s):  
Linda Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Looking Back

In 1907, aged seventy and nearing the end of her long life as a journalist and writer, Marianne Farningham published her autobiography. She gave it the forthright title A Working Woman’s Life, thus indicating that in her old age she constructed her identity as that of both ‘woman’ and ‘worker’, closely bound up with her gender as well as with the type of life she had lived. Looking back from the perspective of the early twentieth century, although with a view of life largely shaped in the 1840s and 1850s, she recounted, amongst other things, the joys of her work, the perils of overwork, and the pleasures of relaxation. Her writing accordingly included several passages addressing matters relating to the use and abuse of time.

Barefoot Boston Boy Becomes Movie Man

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. T. McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Initial Work ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This chapter details Levine’s early life, from his birth to his initial work as a film exhibitor, distributor, and promoter. Levine grew up in the horrible poverty of Boston’s West End, and the details of his early life are placed into the historical context of early twentieth-century Boston. As the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Levine not only experienced poverty but also anti-Semitism, and these experiences helped to shape the man he would become. Levine’s numerous early business ventures are also explored, as are his early days as a movie exhibitor and promoter and the importance of his marriage to Rosalie.

Russian Women

2019 ◽  
pp. 39-62
Author(s):  
Stanley J. Rabinowitz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Psychic Development ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Zinaida Gippius ◽  
Insight Into

Volynsky’s moving reminiscences of key women in his early life as a critic and journalist between 1891 and 1907 (Zinaida Gippius, Liubov Gurevich, Ida Rubinstein, Lou Andreas-Salome) is preceded by a theoretical introduction classifying two basic female types. Chronicling Volynsky’s beginnings as a major observer of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian culture, these vivid portraits of some of the outstanding female icons of his time demonstrate the central presence of women in Volynsky’s intellectual and psychic development; they also provide valuable insight into the origins of his interest in dance, and in female dancers in particular.

scholarly journals Instead of Introduction: How Old Is Sacredness?

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Tõnno Jonuks ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Folk Religion ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Copper Coin

It is customary that references to history are used to legitimise one’s ideological and religious statements. This method is particularly visible in contemporary pagan and spiritual movements, in which history has a crucial position not only in justifications of religious claims but also in searching inspiration for contemporary beliefs and for providing a structural framework for (re)constructing past religions. The commonest explanation for using history in arguments and rhetoric in religion is to add credibility to one’s claims. Examples can be found in traditional institutional religious organisations, in contemporary spiritual movements, but also in the rhetoric of individual charismatic leaders. Such rhetorical manner is not common to contemporary religions only but can also be followed in historical folk religion (see, e.g., Johanson 2018). For instance, in a record of a heavily worn eighteenth-century copper coin, used for healing magic in the early twentieth century, the old age of the coin is specifically valued.

The Archaeological Imagination

Shadow Sites ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kitty Hauser
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Oldest Old ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Domesday Book ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Device

Rudyard Kipling’s stories for children Puck of Pook’s Hill and Rewards and Fairies were first published in 1906 and 1909–10 respectively. In these stories, Puck (Shakespeare’s Puck of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and the last ‘fairy’ to survive in England) meets two children, Dan and Una, in the Sussex countryside where they live in the early twentieth century. Puck introduces the children to various historical characters—a Roman Centurion, a Norman Knight, and so on—who tell them stories about the past, and in particular the history of their locality. In these stories it is the land itself that is the bearer of historical meaning, as revealed by Puck and these messengers from the past. Indeed, time and space are seen to be inseparable, since a place and its features are often literally constituted by what has happened there. ‘Puck’s Song’, the opening poem of Puck of Pook’s Hill, makes this connection plain:… See you the dimpled track that runs, All hollow through the wheat? O that was where they hauled the guns That smote King Philip’s fleet . . . Puck reveals to the children the antiquity of some of the landscape’s features:… See you our little mill that clacks, So busy by the brook? She has ground her corn and paid her tax Ever since Domesday Book…. Sometimes it is a past that has left no trace that Puck restores, through storytelling, to the landscape:… See you our pastures wide and lone, Where the red oxen browse? O there was a City thronged and known Ere London boasted a house…. Puck, who is thousands of years old (‘the oldest Old Thing in England’), is the witness of the history of the British Isles since ‘Stonehenge was new’, and has an epic memory. All of history is available to him, both impossibly distant yet immediately present in his mind, as it is in the landscape he inhabits, which bears the marks of the past. The figure of Puck is a literary device through which Kipling could liberate himself from the limitations of written history, for within the frame of the stories, Puck’s testimony as the witness of time—however fanciful—is indisputable.

Aging Without Children in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Rural Estonia

2021 ◽  
pp. 036319902110391
Author(s):  
Kersti Lust
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Formal Support ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This article explores living arrangements and both informal and formal support for the elderly who had no surviving children in the Russian Baltic province of Livland from 1850 to 1905. The article examines with whom the elderly who had no spouse and descendants to rely on lived out their twilight years; whether there were differences between the farmers and farm laborers; the role of poor relief, and whether adoption served well to ensure upkeep in old age.

scholarly journals “One does what one can (on fait ce qu’on peut)”: Joseph Conrad as Translator

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Randall Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Modernist Fiction

Abstract Joseph Conrad’s fiction – Lord Jim especially – contains several instances of characters struggling with translation, or with foreign languages more generally, or transferring speech or syntactic patterns from one language to another. These features have much to suggest about Conrad’s own multilingual early life and his eventual adoption of English for his writing. They also have wider implications concerning his vision and tactics as a novelist – including his reliance on French fiction, and his regular emphases on cultural difference and on the cognitive and epistemological challenges of communicating experience. These challenges, in turn, initiate or anticipate concerns widely apparent in modernist fiction, indicating stresses in an advancing, globalised modernity which made its innovations so necessary. Appreciating Conrad’s interest in translation elucidates and confirms Fredric Jameson’s judgement of his writing as a key factor in the emergence of modernism in the early twentieth century.

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