Author: Arthur Ponsonby Baron Ponsonby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.

Author: Aurora Fernández Per
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788409098798
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas, founders of the a+t research group, relate their stories of three trips to Japan: spring 1995, autumn 2004, and summer 2018. The common thread is architecture, which drives them to travel through a country which has become highly influential in terms of international design. Using texts, photographs, and drawings they interpret buildings and landscapes, as well as narrate the everyday scenes they have witnessed along the way.--Provided by publisher.

Author: Marie Bashkirtseff
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Marie Bashkirtseff's diary is one of the great journals of all time: a Russian girl, transplanted to France, begins a little diary at the age of fourteen. Eleven years later, upon her death, she has written thousands and thousands of pages, creating an obsessively detailed monument to her own life. "...because I hope that I will be read...I am absolutely sincere. If this hook is not the exact, absolute, strict truth, it has no reason to be". But Bashkirtseff was betrayed by her own family. The diary, published posthumously in 1887, was expurgated, sanitized, and denuded. Marie's mother made sure that none of her daughter's more radical opinions - and more importantly, their strange family history - appeared in the diary's pages. Even so, it was hailed as the true portrait of a woman by the French press, and Bashkirtseff was alternately canonized as a misunderstood genius and damned as a self-absorbed misfit. Now, in this new translation, Phyllis Howard Kernberger has returned to the original text - Marie's notebooks, held in the Bibliotheque Nationale. Her scrupulous, decades-long research has unearthed the true self-portrait that Marie Bashkirtseff hoped to reveal. Marie was enraptured with her own beauty, enraged by the constraints of society (especially for women), and determined to achieve success and fame at any cost, and her diary is a vivid portrait of a free-thinking woman born before her time. Working straight from the source, Kernberger has revived the honest image of Marie - in a seductively funny, warmly personal, and thoroughly mesmerizing account of a life lived to its fullest.

Author: Thomas Mallon
Publisher: Ruminator Books
ISBN: 9781886913028
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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An investigation into the art and history of diary writing as well as a guide to the great diaries and private chronicles of the famous, the infamous, and the anonymous

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Robert A. Fothergill
Publisher: London : Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: R. Steinitz
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230339603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.

Author: Louis Auchincloss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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At the turn of the eighteenth century when New York City mushroomed into a major cultural and financial center, Hone and Strong recorded every event in a pithy and relentless style. Here are the most interesting sections of their journals paired with Currier & Ives prints from the era. 100 illustrations with 50 in full color.

Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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In 'Diary in America, Series One', prolific novelist, Frederick Marryat, shares his observations and experiences during his travels in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. In his preface, Marryat stated that he was struck by the contradictory and often shallow portrayals of America in other travelogs and set out to provide a more nuanced and insightful analysis. He notes that the United States is not a homogenous nation, but rather a collection of diverse populations with distinct cultural, social, and political characteristics. His book provides a compelling and thoughtful account of America during a time of transition and rapid change, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the history and culture of the United States.