Recollections of 92 Years, 1824-1916
Author | : Elizabeth Avery Meriwether |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Elizabeth Avery Meriwether |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Tennessee Historical Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1958 |
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Author | : Diane di Prima |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2002-03-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0140231587 |
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
Author | : Charles J. Humber |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-01-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1460283384 |
DAD’S BEST MEMORIES AND RECOLLECTIONS is Chazzz Humber’s epithaph casting a very long and sentimental shadow across North America and beyond. This 230-page volume is his granite monument, well-polished! It lavishly records 125 of his best memories over a life-span of nearly eighty years. The vignettes are serenaded with more than 400 illustrations. Those discovering this volume likely will find themselves wanting to record, in their own sunset years, their personal memories and recollections. And when they do, they are apt to recall what it was like to live in their fluctuating world dominated by a variety of personalities and cascading events. Mr. Humber vividly describes what it was like, in 1945, to travel in a 1930 Model A Ford from Toronto to Boston. With lively enthusiasm, he reports what it was like to live in post-World War II Boston, to cook a lobster for a former President of the United States or to sell a pair of elevator shoes to one of Hollywood’s shortest celebrities or to shine the shoes of a Derby-hatted father of a future President of the United States. It is not a remarkable achievement to reflect, to recall or to have memories that are treasured. But to tell them with literary aplomb, to recall the events that happened nearly seventy-five years ago with utmost clarity is definitely an admirable achievement and should be cherished not only by the kin who follow Mr. Humber but by those who might like to imitate what he has monumentally achieved in Dad’s Best Memories and Recollections.
Author | : J. Don Read |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1475726724 |
Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Port de Bourgenay, France, June 1996
Author | : DeAnne Blanton |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807158569 |
Popular images of women during the American Civil War include self-sacrificing nurses, romantic spies, and brave ladies maintaining hearth and home in the absence of their men. However, as DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook show in their remarkable new study, that conventional picture does not tell the entire story. Hundreds of women assumed male aliases, disguised themselves in men’s uniforms, and charged into battle as Union and Confederate soldiers—facing down not only the guns of the adversary but also the gender prejudices of society. They Fought Like Demons is the first book to fully explore and explain these women, their experiences as combatants, and the controversial issues surrounding their military service. Relying on more than a decade of research in primary sources, Blanton and Cook document over 240 women in uniform and find that their reasons for fighting mirrored those of men—-patriotism, honor, heritage, and a desire for excitement. Some enlisted to remain with husbands or brothers, while others had dressed as men before the war. Some so enjoyed being freed from traditional women’s roles that they continued their masquerade well after 1865. The authors describe how Yankee and Rebel women soldiers eluded detection, some for many years, and even merited promotion. Their comrades often did not discover the deception until the “young boy” in their company was wounded, killed, or gave birth. In addition to examining the details of everyday military life and the harsh challenges of -warfare for these women—which included injury, capture, and imprisonment—Blanton and Cook discuss the female warrior as an icon in nineteenth-century popular culture and why -twentieth-century historians and society ignored women soldiers’ contributions. Shattering the negative assumptions long held about Civil War distaff soldiers, this sophisticated and dynamic work sheds much-needed light on an unusual and overlooked facet of the Civil War experience.
Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal) |
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Author | : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Libraries |
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