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    Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad: Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland
    Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad: Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland
    Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad: Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland
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    Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad: Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland

    By Sigrid Scholtz Novak and Richey Novak

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    This book is an excursion into the thoughts and experiences of two enterprising octogenarians: a German wife and her Texas husband. They return to Europe for one year of home exchanges with various partners in several cities and countries: Austria, France, Germany, and Poland. The correspondences are presented chronologically, paired with cultural insights, memories of the cities and villages as they were decades ago, and the new adventures they embark on with people they encounter and relatives they visit along the way. We promised our U.S. family we would write regular reports of our whereabouts and keep them informed of our activities abroad. We kept our promise over the months, and this notebook is the collection of letters and pictures from our stay overseas. The trip took place from autumn 2007 through autumn 2008.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 9, 2011
    ISBN9781463446390
    Never Too Old for Adventure Two Octogenarians Abroad: Correspondence from a Year of Home Exchanges with Couples in Austria, Germany, France and Poland
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    Sigrid Scholtz Novak

    The Johns Hopkins Library holds a large collection of German-language plays which were published and performed between 1880 and 1920. While literary historians claimed that German women writers had contributed little to dramatic literature, this study shows that the opposite was the case: Within the Hopkins collection alone, I found some 50 dramas written by women. This study discusses their considerable contribution to the theatre repertoire of the time, primarily in their depiction of women’s difficult role in family and society, before German women gained the right to vote in 1918.

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