Author: William Byrd
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ISBN:
Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia Historical Society and the University of North Carolina Library respectively. cf. Introd.
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
Author: William Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia Historical Society and the University of North Carolina Library respectively. cf. Introd.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A transcription from the original shorthand of the first part of Byrd's diary now in the Henry E. Huntington Library. Parts covering the period from December 13, 1717, to May 19, 1721, and from August 10, 1739, to August 31, 1741, are located in the Virginia Historical Society and the University of North Carolina Library respectively. cf. Introd.
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. [With Plates.].
Author: William Byrd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Great American Gentleman
Author: William Byrd
Publisher: New York : Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Virginia Social life and customs To 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
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Category : Virginia Social life and customs To 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Secret Diary of Westover William Byrd 1709 - 1712
Author: William Byrd (of Westover)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Great American Gentleman: William Byrd of Westover in Virginia
Author: William Byrd
Publisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The biography of William Byrd, hailed as the American Pepys reveals the life of a great gentleman in early America and a rich slice of what the country was really like in the early 1700's.
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The biography of William Byrd, hailed as the American Pepys reveals the life of a great gentleman in early America and a rich slice of what the country was really like in the early 1700's.
William Byrd of Westover in Virginia
Author: William Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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William Byrd of Westover in Virginia
Author: William Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Great American Gentleman William Byrd of Westover in Virginia
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover
Author: Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.
The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712
Author: William Byrd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description