Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884 Book

A discussion of the search for meaning in the "croning years"- those those years between middle age and old age. Explores the myth of Demeer/Hecate the crone goddess. Also examines Carl Jung's term metanoia--a word used "to describe the deep change of attitude that can result from a period of trauma and psychological upheaval."

I recommend reading this after James Hollis' The Middle Passage. To get the most out of this book I also recommend reading Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections and Ann and Barry Ulanov's The Witch and the Clown: Two Archetypes of Human Sexuality. (I can't recommend the Ulanov's work enough.)

Cited in this work were a number of books I would like eventually to read:
Murray Stein's In Midlife: A Jungian Perspective
Daryl Sharp's The Survival Papers
Rosemary Gordon's Dying and Creating: a Search for Meaning
Erich Neuman's Art and the Creative Unconsciousness and I would like to revisit The Great Mother: An analysis of te Archetype and Origins and History of Consciousness.
Erik Erikson's Childhood and Society (wherein Erikson describes eight basic stages of human development). These stages are discussed in chapter 4 "Other Voices" of Coming to Age.
Ron Kurtz and Hector Prestera, The Body Reveals: What Your Body Says About You.
Barbara Hannah's Encounters with the Soul: Active Imagination as Developed by C.G. Jung.

The work of the followin Jungian analysists: Joan Chodorow, Anita Greene, Arnold Mindel, and Marion Woodman.

I've read books about C. Jung but not the following:
Laurens Van der Post's Jung and the Story of Our Times and Marie-Louise von Franz's C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time