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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Grenfell, Joyce.
Darling Ma: Letters to her Mother, 1932-1944
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Edited by James Roose-Evans. Hardback. Ex lib with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in creased dw. xxii + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4643
Keywords: 0340423684, Joyce Grenfell, mothers, daughter, letters, 1930s, World War II, Second World War, history, correspondence, woman, women, actresses, drama, actress, theatre, interwar, inter war, inter-war
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Constantine, Stephen, ed.
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding, 1913-1916
(Ryburn Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. A slight waviness across tops of pages (the effects of minor damp), otherwise very good. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7418
Keywords: 1853310182, E. J. Harding, letters, correspondence, diaries, twentieth century, travel, the British Empire, Imperialism, 20th, Australia, New Zealand, South African, New Foundland, Canada, Canadian, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, colonies, colonialism, colony
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Gyford, C. Barrington.
The Skipper Ashore: Being Some More Letters from the Skipper of a Tramp Steamer, about his Experiences Ashore in Various Parts of the World. With Photographs Sent by the Writer
(Isaac Pitman, 1938).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, boards worn especially at edges, some soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14089
Keywords: B0014IF138, maritime, travel, ships, boats, skippers, history, C. Barrington Gyford, letters, correspondence, Europe, East, Arabia, Middle East, Sudan, steamers, photographs, sea travel, adventure, seas, inter-war, inter war
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Markus, Julia.
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Bloomsbury, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-C7304
Keywords: 0747522960, women writers, woman's history, woman, poets, poetry, poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, marriage, marital, elopement, Italy, Italian, eloping, courtship, Victorian, nineteenth century, letters, correspondence, literature, literary, romance, Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, William Story, Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, George Sand, morphine, spiritualism, depression
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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