Author: Heather Creaton
Publisher: Lincoln Record Society
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Unpublished London Diaries
Author: Heather Creaton
Publisher: Lincoln Record Society
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Publisher: Lincoln Record Society
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Pepys's Later Diaries
Author: Samuel Pepys
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495321
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Pepys never resumed the personal Diary which he abandoned in 1669 fearing he was going blind. He was one of the greatest accidental historians, never intending to record for posterity, but for amusement. This book makes these diaries available to the general reader. These documents enhance the picture of Pepys as a politician and civil servant.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752495321
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Pepys never resumed the personal Diary which he abandoned in 1669 fearing he was going blind. He was one of the greatest accidental historians, never intending to record for posterity, but for amusement. This book makes these diaries available to the general reader. These documents enhance the picture of Pepys as a politician and civil servant.
Our History of the 20th Century
Author: Travis Elborough
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782437363
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In Travis Elborough's expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782437363
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In Travis Elborough's expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century.
Everyone’s Theater
Author: Michael Meeuwis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472125796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Nearly all residents of England and its colonies between 1860 and 1914 were active theatergoers, and many participated in the amateur theatricals that defined late Victorian life. The Victorian theater was not an abstract figuration of the world as a stage, but a media system enmeshed in mass lived experience that fulfilled in actuality the concept of a theatergoing nation. Everyone’s Theater turns to local history, the words of everyday Victorians found in their diaries and production records, to recover this lost chapter of theater history in which amateur drama domesticates the stage. Professional actors and playwrights struggled to make their productions compatible with ideas and techniques that could be safely reproduced in the home—and in amateur performances from Canada to India. This became the first true English national theater: a society whose myriad classes found common ground in theatrical display. Everyone’s Theater provides new ways to extend Victorian literature into the dimension of voice, sound, and embodiment, and to appreciate the pleasures of Victorian theatricality.
The Private Mary Chesnut
Author: Mary Boykin Chesnut
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195035131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195035131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience.
A Magnificent Obsession
Author: Helen Rappaport
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429940921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband – a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy. After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly performed the function of King in all but name. The outpouring of grief after Albert's death was so extreme, that its like would not be seen again until the death of Princess Diana 136 years later. Drawing on many letters, diaries and memoirs from the Royal Archives and other neglected sources, as well as the newspapers of the day, Rappaport offers a new perspective on this compelling historical psychodrama--the crucial final months of the prince's life and the first long, dark ten years of the Queen's retreat from public view. She draws a portrait of a queen obsessed with her living husband and – after his death – with his enduring place in history. Magnificent Obsession will also throw new light on the true nature of the prince's chronic physical condition, overturning for good the 150-year old myth that he died of typhoid fever.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429940921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband – a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy. After the untimely death of Prince Albert, the queen and her nation were plunged into a state of grief so profound that this one event would dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy. For Britain had not just lost a prince: during his twenty year marriage to Queen Victoria, Prince Albert had increasingly performed the function of King in all but name. The outpouring of grief after Albert's death was so extreme, that its like would not be seen again until the death of Princess Diana 136 years later. Drawing on many letters, diaries and memoirs from the Royal Archives and other neglected sources, as well as the newspapers of the day, Rappaport offers a new perspective on this compelling historical psychodrama--the crucial final months of the prince's life and the first long, dark ten years of the Queen's retreat from public view. She draws a portrait of a queen obsessed with her living husband and – after his death – with his enduring place in history. Magnificent Obsession will also throw new light on the true nature of the prince's chronic physical condition, overturning for good the 150-year old myth that he died of typhoid fever.
A History of English Autobiography
Author: Adam Smyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107078415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107078415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf
Author: J. Simons
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230376444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230376444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This highly original book investigates the part played by their personal writings in the lives of eight literary women. Can private journals provide information about their authors' public works? Do diaries dramatise the development of an individual literary `voice'? What was the special attraction of the diary form for women, and why has it been so undervalued? Drawing on current feminist critical approaches, Judy Simons explores these and other questions in a stimulating and wide-ranging study of women's diary writing, which revises our entire way of thinking about this traditionally neglected genre and its particular implications for the woman writer.
Becoming a Londoner
Author: David Plante
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883975X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The first volume of David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883975X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The first volume of David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite, both a deeply personal memoir and a hugely significant document of cultural history
All We Know
Author: Lisa Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374534489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374534489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.