Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott
Author: Ednah Dow Cheney
Publisher: Applewood Books
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Authors, American
ISBN: 1429044608

Offers a portrait of Louisa May Alcott through a collection of personal letters and journal entries, giving insight into her life and her work.

Maria Mitchell

Maria Mitchell
Author: Maria Mitchell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1896
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

GEORGE ELIOTS LIFE AS RELATED

GEORGE ELIOTS LIFE AS RELATED
Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781362613763

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My Dearest, Dearest Albert

My Dearest, Dearest Albert
Author: Karen Dolby
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1782439714

Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement.

Where's the Truth?

Where's the Truth?
Author: Wilhelm Reich
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0374288836

Where's the Truth? is the fourth and final volume of Wilhelm Reich's autobiographical writings, drawn from his diaries, letters, and laboratory notebooks. These writings reveal the details of the outrider scientist's life—his joys and sorrows, his hopes and insecurities—and chronicle his experiments with what he called "orgone energy." A student of Freud's and a prominent research physician in the early psychoanalytic movement, Reich immigrated to America in 1939 in flight from Nazism, and pursued research about orgone energy functions in the living organism and the atmosphere. Where's the Truth? begins in January 1948, shortly after Reich became a target of the Federal Food and Drug Administration. He had already faced persecution by the U.S. government, having been mistaken by the State Department and the FBI for both a Communist and a Nazi. Starting in 1947, Reich was hounded by the FDA, which, in 1954, obtained an injunction by default against him that enabled it to burn six tons of his published books and research journals, and to ban the use of one of his most important experimental research tools—the orgone energy accumulator. Challenging the right of a court to judge basic scientific research, Reich was imprisoned in March 1957 and died in the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, eight months later. The text gathered here shows Reich's steadfast determination to protect his work. "Where's the truth?" he asked a lawyer, and that question animates this volume and rounds out our understanding of a unique, irrepressible modern figure.

Journals and Letters

Journals and Letters
Author: Frances Burney
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 943
Release: 2006-05-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0141911050

Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.

Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals

Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals
Author: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810116443

Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.

Byron's Letters and Journals

Byron's Letters and Journals
Author: Richard Lansdown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191044768

Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the authoritative and unbowdlerized edition prepared by Leslie Marchand in the 1970s, not only provides the cream of his informal prose; it amounts to a biography in Byron's own words. No other English writer lived so remarkable an existence, from rented rooms in Aberdeen to a Nottinghamshire peerage, from European fame to English infamy, and notorious Italian exile to a glorious death in the Greek War of Independence.The letters and journals are selected, introduced, and annotated to provide a running narrative of the life and career of his remarkable man in his own unmistakable words.