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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Pottle, Frederick A.
Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763:
(William Heinemann, rpt., 1951).
Now first published from the original manuscript prepared for the press with an introduction and notes by Frederick A. Potttle. Hardback. Covers soiled and spine edges slightly torn, otherwise good+. xiii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-A12438
Keywords: B000HGIENM, Boswell, diary, diaries, eighteenth century, 18th, journals
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Evelyn, John.
The Life of Margaret Godolphin:
(Alexander Moring, 1904).
The King's Classics. Hardback. Covers slightly worn, otherwise a good copy. xxxix + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C11116
Keywords: B000X8TJY2, Margaret Godolphin, seventeenth century, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, diaries, diarists, authoresses, literature, fiction, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, John Evelyn
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
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Cheney, Ednah, D.
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals
(Samson Low etc, 1889).
With photograph and printed example of Alcott's handwriting beneath. Hardback. Ex library, boards rubbed, otherwise good. 404pp. Order No. NSBK-C15472
Keywords: B0016PRJWU, Victorian, wioman writer, women writers, life, hife history, Ednah D. Cheney, letters, journals, diaries, diary, Little Women, American, America, USA, US, history, literature, novels, novelist, Louisa M. Alcott, epistles, literary, biography, biographical
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Greville, Julia, ed.
Mistress Dorothy Drayton: Her Diary 1553-1559
(The Religious Tract Society, 1909 (?)).
Hardback. Good + in rubbed, decorated boards. vii + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C15545
Keywords: B0014I5J9Y, Mistress Dorothy Drayton, diaries, diary, sixteenth century, journal
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Huxley, Elspeth.
Gallipot Eyes: A Wiltshire Diary
(Century, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Spine creased and page edges soiled, otherwise good. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-A7976
Keywords: 0712623779, diary, diaries, Elspeth Huxley, women writers, woman writer, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Wiltshire
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Moynihan, Ruth B., Russett, C., & Crumpacker, L.
Second to None: A Documentary History of American Women. Volume I: From the 16th Century to 1865
(Nebraska UP, 1993).
Paperback. Good. 401pp. Order No. NSBK-A12273
Keywords: 0803281994, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, diaries, diary, letters, speeches, songs, petitions, essays, photographs, cartoons
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Davis, Edwin Adams and Hogan, William Ransom.
The Barber of Natchez:
(Louisiana UP, 1973).
Paperback. Very good. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A8204
Keywords: 0807102121, Natchez, barbers, slavery, slaves, free slaves, USA, United States, Black history, negroes, Mississippi, politics, American, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, diaries, diary, letters, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, biographical, business records
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