British And Irish Womens Letters And Diaries From 1500 1900
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Diaries |
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Spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Includes approximately 100,000 pages of primary materials.
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Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : English diaries |
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The contents of the database have been selected from, Women's diaries, journals, and letters: an annotated bibliography / Cheryl Cline. Garland, 1989 ; American diaries in manuscript, 1580-1954: a descriptive bibliography. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1974 / And So to bed: a bibliography of diaries published in English. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1987 ; and other sources.
Author | : Anne MacVicar Grant |
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Release | : 1807 |
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Author | : Lisa Grunwald |
Publisher | : Dial Press Trade Paperback |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2009-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0307493334 |
Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.
Author | : Lady Mary (Pierrepone) Wortley Montagu |
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Lady Gregory |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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These diaries, covering the decade following the death of her husband, chart the course of Lady Gregory's gradual but remarkable remaking of her life. The rich account these pages give of Lady Gregory's life in the 1890s and of her deepening friendship with and patronage of Yeats radically changes the existing image of her evolution as an Irish writer and Nationalist and of the early years of the Irish Literary Theatre. As the only day-to-day record kept by a major figure in the Irish literary movement, these diaries provide a revealing and frequently corrective counterweight to the narratives of these times written years later by Yeats, Moore, Lady Gregory herself, and others.
Author | : Helena Sanson |
Publisher | : OUP/British Academy |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780197264836 |
In the sixteenth century Italian was a literary language not accessible to the less educated, among them women, who would instead speak a local dialect. Little attention has been paid to women's linguistic education, but this study shows the vital role they played in developing Italian as a true mother tongue.
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Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2009-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603842292 |
The Thirty Years War: A Documentary History fills a gap in recent studies of the great pan-European conflict, providing fresh translations of thirty-eight primary documents for the student and general reader. The selections are drawn from the standard political documents, from the Apology of the Bohemian Estates for the Defenestration of Prague to the text of the Treaty of Westphalia, as well as from imperial edicts, trial records, letters, diary entries, and satirical broadsheets, all directly translated from the Early New High German, French, Swedish, and Latin. The volume contains some ten illustrations and one map . . . and on the whole is well organized and well presented with a judicious amount of footnotes and a slim For Further Reading section. A succinct introduction introduces the four sections, each with its own substantial introduction: (1) Outbreak of the Thirty Years War (1618-1623), (2) The Intervention of Denmark and Sweden (1623-1635), and (3) The Long War (1635-1648). The concluding section (4) Two Wartime Lives (1618-1648), interestingly juxtaposes the journals of a wandering mercenary and a settled townsman. The first is the diary of Peter Hagendorf, kept between the years 1624 and 1649 and only rediscovered in 1993. Hagendorf experienced the war as a common mercenary from the Baltic to Italy, from France to Pomerania. His counterpart is Hans Heberle, a shoemaker from a small town in the territory of the free imperial city of Ulm whose Zeytregister chronicled happenings both in the neighborhood and further afield. The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes over the three decades of the war really help to give this collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human face. They are the stuff from which Grimmelshausen would craft his great novel of the war, The Adventuresome Simplicissimus (1668). Tryntje Helfferich is to be applauded for this consistently interesting and eminently useful volume. --Martin W. Walsh, University of Michigan, in Sixteenth Century Journal
Author | : Amy Prendergast |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137512717 |
The eighteenth-century salon played an important role in shaping literary culture, while both creating and sustaining transnational intellectual networks. Focusing on archival materials, this book is the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland, considered in the wider contexts of contemporary salon culture in Britain and France.
Author | : LESLEE. THORNE-MURPHY |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-12-15 |
Genre | : Bazaars (Charities) |
ISBN | : 0192866885 |
Charity bazaars were a key method women used to intervene in political, social, and cultural affairs. Bazaar Literature reorients our understanding of Victorian social reform fiction by reading it in light of the copious amount of literature generated for charity bazaars--which shaped the social, political, and literary movements of its time.