03431oam 22006733 450 99659127000331620240117034917.0(CKB)3800000000216124(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37981(EXLCZ)99380000000021612420171009d2017uuuu uy| 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAusterity baby /Janet WolffManchester University Press2017Manchester, England :Manchester University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (iv, 262 pages) illustrations (some colour), maps, facsimiles, portraits ; digital, PDF file(s)1-5261-2130-1 1-5261-2129-8 Includes bibliographical references.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."Art criticsEnglandManchesterArt and societyJewsSocial conditions20th centuryBiographyJewish familiesBiographyJewish familiesEnglandEnglandManchesterfastsecond world warmanchesterukspinstersexiledisplacementhenry simon of manchestereleanor rathbonethird reichartfridtjof nansenrochesternew yorkManchesterArt criticsArt and society.JewsSocial conditionsJewish familiesJewish families941.0820922Wolff Janet143335UkMaJRUNZ-WeVULBOOK996591270003316Austerity baby1912891UNISA