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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Nightingale, Florence.
Letters from Egypt: a Journey on the Nile, 1849 - 1850
(Grove Press, 1st US edition, 1987).
Hardback. Very good copy in good dustwrapper slightly torn / worn at corners. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C16070
Keywords: 9780802115324, Florence Nightingale, nurses, nursing, history, travels, women travellers, Egypt, Africa, history
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
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Heydon, Peter N., & Kelley Philip, eds.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy, 1849-1861: With Recollections by Mrs Ogilvy
(Quadrangle, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in sl worn dustwrapper. xxxv + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C2124
Keywords: 0812902874, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Mrs Oglivy, poet, Victorian, poetry, woman writer, women writers, women's history, literature, correspondence, poets, British, Britain
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Squire, Rose E.
Thirty Years in the Public Service: An Industrial Retrospect
(Nisbet and Co., 1927).
With a foreword by Sir Edward Troup. Hardback. Good+ in worn and rubbed boards. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A15550
Keywords: Britain, Britishm history, Rose E. Squire, industry, industrial, autobiography, letters, self-history, autobiographical, memoir, public service, civil seervice factory inspectors, female factory inspectors, women's history, woman, women factory inspectors, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, B000865E84, industry, industrial
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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Life of Frances Power Cobbe: by Herself
(Richard Bentley, 1894).
In two volumes. Scarce. With illustrations. Gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to front board. Hardback. Edges rubbed and corners worn, some foxing to endpapers and title pages, otherwise very good, fairly bright, solid copies. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-C7265
Keywords: Frances Power Cobbe, Cobbe, set, feminist, feminism, feminists, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, antiquarian, autobiography, autobiographies, women, women writer, women writers, woman, woman writers, journalist, journalists, journalism, women journalist, women journalist, woman journalists, women journalists, women's rights, The Claims Of Women, gender, women's movement, women's movements, Miss Power Cobbe, women's history, history, woman, womanhood, letters, letter, correspondence, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettes, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, suffragist, suffragists, right, rights, philanthropist, philanthropy, philanthropists, philanthropic, volumes
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Ward, W. R.
The Early Correspondence of Jabez Bunting, 1820-1829:
(Royal Historical Society, 1972).
Camden Fourth Series, Vol II. Hardback. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A12021
Keywords: 0901050091, Jabez Bunting, Wesleyan, Methodism, Methodists, nonconformity, nonconformists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, letters, epistles, epistolary, Jabez Bunting, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Aiken, Lucy.
Epistles on Women: Exemplifying Their Character and Condition in Various Ages and Nations, With Miscellaneous Poems
(Portrayer Publishers, 2003 reprint of 1810 text).
Number 5 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Paperback. New book, fine. 114pp. Order No. NSBK-C6503
Keywords: Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, poems, poetry, poets, poetess, writer, writers, woman writer, women writers, Lucy Aiken, Aiken, epistles, Women, epistle, correspondence, letters, sexuality, nineteenth century, Georgian, Regency, 19th century, women's history, literature, Open Archive Occasional Series, nationhood, nations, Warrington
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Addy, Mrs Sidney Oldall Mary Golden Addy.
Collections A Miscellany: Sidney Oldall Addy and Family
(Roffey and Clark, Croydon, no date).
With illustrations. Hardback. Some sunning / fading to maroon cloth, especially at spine, rubbing to corners, foxing to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A15941
Keywords: Mrs S.O. Addy, Mary Golden Addy, collections, Sidney Oldall Addy, miscellany, literature, writers, antiquarian, poems, letters, suffragettes, women's suffrage, essays, biography, biographies
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Jenkins, T. A. ed.
The Parliamentary Diaries of Sir John Trelawny, 1858-1865:
(Royal Historical Society, 1990).
Camden Fourth Series, Volume 40. Hardback. Cloth slightly soiled, otherwise good. 349pp. Order No. NSBK-A8086
Keywords: 0861931254, diaries, Parliamentary, Sir John Trelawney, letters, nineteenth century, 19th, history, Britain, British, England, English
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