Lost Generation
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The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that preceded the Greatest Generation. This generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, those who came of age in the 1900s and 1910
Family in Queensland pictured at home (c. 1900)
The Child's Bath by Mary Cassatt from 1893 of a woman giving a child a wash. The link between hygiene and good health was becoming better understood in Western society by the end of the 19th century and frequent bathing had become common.
Class photo taken at a school in Sweden (1900)
Children playing with toys (c. 1890s)
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo
Lost Generation
…American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway, who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: "You are all a lost generation." "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented…
Hemingway in late 1939
Ernest Hemingway Boyhood Home, Oak Park, Illinois
Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.
Hemingway as 1st Lt. (A.R.C.), in late 1918; note the medal ribbons on his chest and the two rank stripes above the cuffs