Aging by the Book -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Rise of Midlife in Victorian Britain -- 2. "No Longer the Man He Was": Age Anxiety in the Male Midlife Marriage Plot -- 3. "The Neutral Man-Woman": Female Desexualization at Midlife -- 4. Marriageable at Midlife: The Remarrying Widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope -- 5. In the Eye of the Beholder: Victorian Age Construction and the Specular Self -- 6. "How To Keep Young": Advertising and Late-Victorian Age Anxiety -- 7. Afterword: The Future of Midlife -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.