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.

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.

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.

Fraternalism, Paternalism, the Family, and the Market: Insurance a Century Ago

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Whaples ◽  
David Buffum
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Family ◽  
Market Insurance ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Reformers

They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.—Isaiah 41:6By the end of the nineteenth century most of the economically advanced European nations had adopted some form of public social insurance. In the world’s richest nation, however, widows and the aged, sick, and injured received little support from the state. Without the help of the state, how did American workers and their families survive in the face of sickness, accidents, old age, or the death of the primary earner? The traditional answer is that they survived rather badly, if at all. Social reformers of the early twentieth century and most modern historians argue that voluntarism was a failure, that it was not suited to the needs of an increasingly industrialized, urbanized populace.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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