Francis Wilson
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Author | : Frances Wilson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408821117 |
Books have been written, films made, we have raised the Titanic and watched her go down again on numerous occasions, but out of the wreckage Frances Wilson spins a new epic: when the ship hit the iceberg on 14 April 1912 and a thousand men prepared to die, J Bruce Ismay, the ship's owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice, Ismay became, according to one headline, 'The Most Talked-of Man in the World'. The first victim of a press hate campaign, his reputation never recovered and while other survivors were piecing together their accounts, Ismay never spoke of his beloved ship again. With the help of that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, whose Lord Jim so uncannily predicted Ismay's fate - and whose manuscript of the story of a man who impulsively betrays a code of honour and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt went down with the Titanic - Frances Wilson explores the reasons behind Ismay's jump, his desperate need to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with lost honour. For those who survived the Titanic the world was never the same again. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.
Author | : Francis Wilson |
Publisher | : Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company |
Total Pages | : 582 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Actors |
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Author | : Frances Wilson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1526644703 |
'Frances Wilson writes books that blow your hair back. She makes Lawrence live and breathe, annoy and captivate you ... she conjures the past with such clarity and wit and flair that it feels utterly present' Katherine Rundell 'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written with a wild, playful energy' Richard Holmes D H Lawrence is no longer censored, but he is still on trial – and we are still unsure what the verdict should be, or even how to describe him. History has remembered him, and not always flatteringly, as a nostalgic modernist, a sexually liberator, a misogynist, a critic of genius, and a sceptic who told us not to look in his novels for 'the old stable ego', yet pioneered the genre we now celebrate as auto-fiction. But where is the real Lawrence in all of this, and how – one hundred years after the publication of Women in Love - can we hear his voice above the noise? Delving into the memoirs of those who both loved and hated him most, Burning Man follows Lawrence from the peninsular underworld of Cornwall in 1915 to post-war Italy to the mountains of New Mexico, and traces the author's footsteps through the pages of his lesser known work. Wilson's triptych of biographical tales present a complex, courageous and often comic fugitive, careering around a world in the grip of apocalypse, in search of utopia; and, in bringing the true Lawrence into sharp focus, shows how he speaks to us now more than ever. 'No biography of Lawrence that I have read comes close to Burning Man' Ferdinand Mount, author of Kiss Myself Goodbye 'The most original voice in life-writing today' Lucasta Miller, author of Keats
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Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Actors |
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The collection contains Wilson's letters, 1891-1921, to his friend Otto Fleischner (1852-1939), assistant librarian of the Boston Public Library. The letters concern primarily details of the publication of Echoes of the Sabine Farm written by Eugene Field (1850-1895), a book which Wilson had undertaken to have published for Field. The letters include comments on type of paper to be used, costs, and his dealing with the publisher and illustrator. The letters were written mainly in New Rochelle, New York, but also while Wilson was on road tours in Pittsburgh and Chicago. There is also information concerning the details of his planned biography of Eugene Field.
Author | : Francis Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781494119157 |
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Author | : Rev. Francis Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 18?? |
Genre | : Texas |
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Author | : Francis Murray Wilson |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1933 |
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Author | : Mark D. Popowski |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2011-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0739169823 |
This is a history of Triumph—a post-Vatican II, Roman Catholic lay magazine—that examines its origins and decline, paying special attention to the editors’ often bellicose views on a range of issues, from Church affairs to the Vietnam War, and civil rights to abortion. Triumph’s editors formed the magazine to defend the faith against what they perceived as the imprudent and secular excesses of Vatican II reformers, but especially against what they viewed as an increasing barbarous and anti-Christian American society. Yet Triumph was not a defensive magazine; rather, it was audaciously triumphalist—proclaiming the Roman Catholic faith as the solution to America’s ills. The magazine sought to convert Americans to Roman Catholicism and to construct a confessional state, which subjected its power to the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church. If the liberalizing and secularizing trajectory in American society exalted man as sovereign of himself and his world, as Triumph’s editors posited, then their mission was to reinstitute Christ’s Kingship, to hallow the world in His name.
Author | : Francis WILSON (American Critic.) |
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Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : William Gresley |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Oxford movement |
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