The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen

The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
Author: Frederic William Maitland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2012-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 110804817X

The biography, published in 1906, of the leading Victorian literary figure and founding Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.

Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen
Author: Noel Gilroy Annan Baron Annan
Publisher: New York : Random House
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Men of Letters, Writing Lives

Men of Letters, Writing Lives
Author: Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2004-01-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134891563

Trev Lynn Broughton takes an in-depth look at the developments within Victorian auto/biography, and asks what we can learn about the conditions and limits of male literary authority. Providing a feminist analysis of the effects of this literary production on culture, Broughton looks at the increase in professions with a vested interest in the written Life; the speeding up of the Life-and-Letters industry during this period; the institutionalization of Life-writing; and the consequent spread of a network of mainly male practitioners and commentators. This study focuses on two case studies from the period 1880-1903: the theories and achievements of Sir Leslie Stephen and the debate surrounding James Anthony Froude's account of the marriage of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.

The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (Classic Reprint)

The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen (Classic Reprint)
Author: Frederic William Maitland
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781527949881

Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen Leslie stephen left behind him many and good friends. Sixty at least of them have helped me in the making of this book. Some have supplied information, some have lent letters, some have written sentences or para graphs which with due acknowledgment will appear hereafter. I hope and believe that I have thanked all of them severally and in private for their kindness and courtesy. If now in thanking them jointly and in public I do not name them, that is partly because they are so many, and partly because a prefatory parade of their names might raise hopes that this book will not fulfil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf
Author: Viviane Forrester
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231153577

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.

A Boob's Life

A Boob's Life
Author: Leslie Lehr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-03-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1643136232

A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts—or loves them. Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone—these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today. From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.