"A fine collection...excellent introduction to the state of an academic field"Colleen Seguin, Valparaiso University

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London, 2. Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich, 3. Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk, 4. 'I feel myself decay apace': Old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), 5. Old maids: the lifecycle of single women in early modern England, 6. The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England, 7. The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective, 8. Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain, 9. 'An inheritance of fear': older women in the twentieth-century countryside, 10. Old women in twentieth-century Britain, Bibliographical essay: Older women in Britain since 1500, Index

"A fine collection...excellent introduction to the state of an academic field"Colleen Seguin, Valparaiso University

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London, 2. Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich, 3. Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk, 4. 'I feel myself decay apace': Old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), 5. Old maids: the lifecycle of single women in early modern England, 6. The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England, 7. The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective, 8. Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain, 9. 'An inheritance of fear': older women in the twentieth-century countryside, 10. Old women in twentieth-century Britain, Bibliographical essay: Older women in Britain since 1500, Index

"A fine collection...excellent introduction to the state of an academic field"Colleen Seguin, Valparaiso University

• List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London, 2. Who most needs to marry? Ageing and inequality among women and men in early modern Norwich, 3. Old age and menopause in rural women of early modern Suffolk, 4. 'I feel myself decay apace': Old age in the diary of Lady Sarah Cowper (1644-1720), 5. Old maids: the lifecycle of single women in early modern England, 6. The old woman's home in eighteenth-century England, 7. The residence patterns of elderly English women in comparative perspective, 8. Old and incapable? Louisa Twining and elderly women in Victorian Britain, 9. 'An inheritance of fear': older women in the twentieth-century countryside, 10. Old women in twentieth-century Britain, Bibliographical essay: Older women in Britain since 1500, Index