1st Edition

The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 4

    What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.

    Volume 4 Intergenerational Relations in the Eighteenth Century Introduction Literature and Essays Samuel Catherall, Cato Major. A Poem (1725) [Daniel Defoe], Chickens feed Capons, or, A Dissertation on the Pertness of our Youth in General (1731) John Asgill, A Postscript to Asgill’s Essay upon Charity ([1731]) John Fielding, The Universal Mentor (1763) Instructions for the Conduct of Females, f om Infancy to Old Age (1788) The Female Aegis; or, The Duties of Women f om Childhood to Old Age, and in Most Situations of Life, Exemplifed (1798) Thomas Bernard, Comforts of Old Age, 4th edn (1818) Ballads, Chapbooks and Broadsides The Falling Out ([1718]) The Old Man, his Son, and the Ass: A Fabulous Tale (1723) [ John Galliard], Tho’ Envious Old Age Seem in Part to Impair Me ([c. 1726]) Low Down in the Broom ([c. 1770]) The Old Man, his Children, and the Bundle of Sticks. A Fable ([c. 1776]) My Grandmother’s Cot, a New Ballad ([c. 1780]) The Slighted Father: or The Unnatural Son Justly Reclaimed ([1780–1810]) ‘An Old Woman Clothed in Grey’ ([c. 1800]) Legal Documents Exchange of Letters from Dr Lloyd, the Vicar of Puddletown, Dorset, and his Lawyer concerning a Dispute over Vicarial Tithes (1777) Sarah Dibben’s SettlemenThexaminations, along with Testimony from her Son Melchizedeck and his Wife (1776) Selected Wills from Dorset, Essex and Yorkshire (1701–88) Household Listings Account of the Inhabitants of Piddletown Parish (1724) Personal Papers Some Account of ye Life &C. of John Fryer & of Severall of his Relations. Written by Himself (1715) ‘Diary of Thomas Smith of Shaw House’ (1721), in J. A. Neale (ed.), Charters and Records of Neales of Berkeley Yate and Corsham (1906) Editorial Notes

    Biography

    Lynn Botelho, Susannah R Ottaway, Anne Kugler