Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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Kanter, Hannah, Lefanu, Sarah et al, eds.
Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1981 - 83
(Women's Press, 1984).
Paperback. Good. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C15768
Keywords: 9780704339309, literature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement, feminism
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Lichtenstein, Diane.
Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers
(Indiana UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. x + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A2808
Keywords: 0253333466, Jewish, ethnicity, Judaism, Jewishness, literature, novel, Emma Lazarus, Rebekah Hyneman, Penina Moise, Emma Wolf, America, United States, USA, 0 253 33346 6
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Craig, Peter, ed.
The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing:
(BCA, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 460pp. Order No. NSBK-A11443
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Sage, Lorna.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English:
(CUP, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. viii + 696pp. Order No. NSBK-C7301
Keywords: 0521668131, women writers, woman writer, literature, literary, novels, fiction, feminists, feminism, bibliographies, bibliography, Lorna Sage
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Earle, Peter.
The World of Defoe:
(Reader's Union, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. xii + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-A11266
Keywords: 0689107722, Daniel Defoe, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, eighteenth century, 18th
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Fawcett, Henry and Millicent Garrett.
The Works of Henry and Millicent Fawcett, 1863-1924:
(Thoemmes Press, 1995 facsimile rpt of the 1878 edition).
Complete in 8 volumes, as follows: Free Trade and Protection; Pauperism; The Economic Position of the British Labourer; Manual of Political Economy; Tales in Political Economy; Political Economy for Beginners; What I Remember; Essays and Lectures. Hardbacks. Near fine. 2363pp. Order No. NSBK-C7544
Keywords: 1855063670, Free Trade and Protection, Pauperism, The Economic Position of the British Labourer, Manual of Political Economy, Tales in Political Economy, Political Economy for Beginners, What I Remember, Essays and Lectures. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Millicent Fawcett, Henry Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Fawcett, The Fawcetts, victorian writers, political thought, complete works, works, poverty, pauper, writing, writings, writings of, works of, Fawcett set, full set, Thoemmes, Thoemmes Press, 20th century, twentieth century, tariffs, 19th century, nineteenth Century, poverty, essays, essay
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