Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Nicolson, Nigel.
Portrait of a Marriage:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, rpt, 1990).
Illustrated edition. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A8505
Keywords: 0297830023, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, biography, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th century, Nicolson, marriage, writers
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Huehns, G., ed.
Clarendon: Selections from the History of the Rebellion & the Life by Himself
(OUP, rpt, 1978).
Intro. by Hugh Trevor Roper. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xxx + 492pp. Order No. NSBK-Z3568
Keywords: B000SBNVSY, Hugh Trevor Roper, rebellion, English Civil War, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles I, history, political philosophy, autobiography, revolution, William Laud, Oliver Cromwell, seventeenth century
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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
Price £6.00.
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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Cookson, Catherine.
My Land of the North: Memories of a Northern Childhood
(Headline, 1999).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, otherwise a very good copy in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C10761
Keywords: 0747274444, Catherine Cookson, North-East, women, woman, women writers, women's writing, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, North, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, East Jarrow, Jarrow, South Shields
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Metcalfe, Jean.
Sunnylea: a 1920s Childhood Remembered
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
With beautiful watercolour prints. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-A3735
Keywords: 0718119231, Jean Metcalfe, watercolours, autobiography, memoirs, child, childhood, autobiographies
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Lamont, Thomas W.
My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century
(Heinemann, 1945).
Illustrated. Hardback. Bright green cloth, good. xviii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A2597
Keywords: B000HC0KBU, childhood, autobiography, parsonage, United States, America, Methodism, Catskill Mountains, presidential campaigns
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Broughton, Trev Lynn & Anderson, Linda.
Women's Lives / Women's Times: New Essays on Auto/biography
(New York UP, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-C3077
Keywords: 9780791433980, women writers, autobiography, biography, auto/biography, theory
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