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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.
Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874
(Yale UP, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-C9223
Keywords: 0300047770, Boston, America, American, United States, USA, US, Alice Stone Blackwell, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, women writers, woman writer, journals, diaries, diary, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, women's suffrage, suffragettes, women's movement, women's rights
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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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Addy, John and McNiven, Peter, eds.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 2, 25 March 1711 - 24 May 1719
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1994, ety of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in creased, faded dustwrapper. xiv + 696pp. Order No. NSBK-A14546
Keywords: 0902593234, diary, diaries, Henry Prescott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Chester
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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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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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Carr, Monica.
Monica Carr's Country Diary:
(Colour Books, 1997).
Paperback. Good. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C5234
Keywords: 0860769551, Monica Carr, country, countryside, diary, diaries, Mary Norton, Dunlavin, Farming Independent, farm, farming, Ireland, Irish, twentieth century
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Addy, John, ed.
The Diary of Henry Prescott, LLB., Deputy Registrar of Chester Diocese: Volume 1, 28 March 1704 - 24 March 1711
(Alan Sutton Publishing, 1987, Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire).
Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, slightly faded dustwrapper. xxx + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A10989
Keywords: 0902593161, diary, diaries, Henry Precott, lawyer, LLB, eighteenth century, 18th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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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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