TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolff, Janet
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_628070
ID  - OAPEN ID: 628070
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030816405
KW  - second world war
KW  - manchester
KW  - uk
KW  - spinsters
KW  - exile
KW  - displacement
KW  - henry simon of manchester
KW  - eleanor rathbone
KW  - third reich
KW  - art
KW  - fridtjof nansen
KW  - rochester
KW  - new york
KW  - Manchester
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b655fd0a-1e09-4cd4-ba59-aca5fffb1c8d/628070.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31449
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781526121295
TI  - Austerity babynull
ER  - 
