Author: Amy Licence
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Extraordinary lives, tangled relationships, innovative art: the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and their Bloomsbury Group.
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles
Author: Amy Licence
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Extraordinary lives, tangled relationships, innovative art: the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and their Bloomsbury Group.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Extraordinary lives, tangled relationships, innovative art: the story of sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and their Bloomsbury Group.
Biography: An Historiography
Author: Melanie Nolan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429760833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429760833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically. This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth. This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.
Among the Bohemians
Author: Virginia Nicholson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060548460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this "wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060548460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this "wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize" (San Francisco Chronicle).
All the Lives We Ever Lived
Author: Katharine Smyth
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 1524760625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An intimate work of memoir and literary criticism describes how the author found literary solace and insights in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" while mourning the death of her beloved father.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 1524760625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An intimate work of memoir and literary criticism describes how the author found literary solace and insights in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" while mourning the death of her beloved father.
A History of London in 50 Lives
Author: David Long
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780745710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780745710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
A History of Women in 101 Objects
Author: Annabelle Hirsch
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1805300881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed – even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations – and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a sixteenth century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived. Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1805300881
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you'll find objects that have been highly esteemed – even, like the Bayeux tapestry, fought over by nations – and others that are humble and domestic. Some (like a sixteenth century glass dildo) are objects of female pleasure, some (a thumbscrew) of female subjugation. There are artefacts of women celebrated by history and of women unfairly forgotten by it; examples of female rebellion and of self-revelation; objects that are inspiring, curious or (like radium-laced chocolate) just fundamentally ill-conceived. Through the variety and nuance in all these 101 objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history - teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating. This overdue corrective reveals what a healed femur says about civilisation, what men have to fear from hat pins, and it shows that the past has always been as complicated and fascinating as the women that peopled it.
Virginia Woolf
Author: Frances Spalding
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855144811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
ISBN: 9781855144811
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 10 July to 26 October 2014.
Neither use nor ornament
Author: Tracey Potts
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526173913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life, lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. The book reveals how contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. Riffing on the aphorism ‘less is more’ – a dominant refrain in present day productivity advice – it tells stories about streamlining, efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around 100 years. By focusing on the shadows of productivity advice, Neither use nor ornament seeks to unravel the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526173913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life, lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. The book reveals how contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. Riffing on the aphorism ‘less is more’ – a dominant refrain in present day productivity advice – it tells stories about streamlining, efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around 100 years. By focusing on the shadows of productivity advice, Neither use nor ornament seeks to unravel the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.
Frontline Surgeon
Author: Mark Derby
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496239253
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Novel Destinations
Author: Shannon McKenna Schmidt
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426203438
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
It’s often said that a good book takes us somewhere we’ve never been before, and here’s the proof: a book-lover’s Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe. Novel Destinations invites readers to follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, discover the scenes that sparked their imaginations, glimpse the lives they led, and share a bit of the experiences they transformed so eloquently into print. If you’re looking to indulge in literary adventure, you’ll find all the inspiration and information you need here, along with behind-the-scenes stories such as these: After Ernest Hemingway survived two near-fatal plane crashes during an African safari, he perused his obituaries and sipped champagne on a canal-side terrace in Venice. Washington Irving's wisteria-draped cottage in the Hudson Valley was once occupied by members of the Van Tassel family, immortalized in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A mysterious incident at a stone tower near Dublin made such a vivid impression on James Joyce that he drew on it for the opening scene of Ulysses. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle consulted on the mystery of Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance before she resurfaced under an assumed name in northern England. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables was inspired by a seaside manse in Salem, Massachusetts, infamous witch trials in which his ancestor played a role.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426203438
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
It’s often said that a good book takes us somewhere we’ve never been before, and here’s the proof: a book-lover’s Baedeker to more than 500 literary locales across the United States and Europe. Novel Destinations invites readers to follow in the footsteps of much-loved authors, discover the scenes that sparked their imaginations, glimpse the lives they led, and share a bit of the experiences they transformed so eloquently into print. If you’re looking to indulge in literary adventure, you’ll find all the inspiration and information you need here, along with behind-the-scenes stories such as these: After Ernest Hemingway survived two near-fatal plane crashes during an African safari, he perused his obituaries and sipped champagne on a canal-side terrace in Venice. Washington Irving's wisteria-draped cottage in the Hudson Valley was once occupied by members of the Van Tassel family, immortalized in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. A mysterious incident at a stone tower near Dublin made such a vivid impression on James Joyce that he drew on it for the opening scene of Ulysses. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle consulted on the mystery of Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance before she resurfaced under an assumed name in northern England. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables was inspired by a seaside manse in Salem, Massachusetts, infamous witch trials in which his ancestor played a role.