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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Polkey, Pauline, ed.
Women's Lives Into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography
(Macmillan, 1999).
Hardback. Very good+, without dustwrapper. xx + 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C15694
Keywords: 9780333684108, autobiography, autobiographies, history, feminism, biography, biographies, recollections, self, female identity, literature, women
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Chester, Gail and Nielsen, Sigrid, eds.
In Other Words: Writing as a Feminist
(Hutchinson, 1987).
Paperback. Spine creased, mark inside where newspaper cutting has been pasted to fly leaf, otherwise very good. 250pp. Order No. NSBK-C10143
Keywords: 0091646812, women writers, woman writer, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th, female
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Palmer, W. Scott & Haggard, A. M.
Michael Fairless: Her Life and Writings
(Duckworth, third impression, 1917).
A. M. Haggard is the sister of Michael Fairless. With two portraits by Elinor Dowson. Hardback. A little rubbing to edges of green boards, otherwise good+. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-C2742
Keywords: B000J2MOMG, Michael Fairless, A. M. Haggard, Haggard, women writers, literature, biography, physic, telepathy, mystic, A Modern Mystic's Way, The Roadmender
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Spender, Dale, ed.
The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing:
(Penguin, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xxxiii + 882pp. Order No. NSBK-C2141
Keywords: 0140112375, Australian, Australian women, Australian women's history, anthology, women writers
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Golby, J.M., ed.
Culture and Society in Britain, 1850-1890: a Source Book of Contemporary Writings
(OUP, rpt with corrections, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly edge-worn, otherwise good+. xiii + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A983
Keywords: 0198711123, Britain, British, England, English, history, culture, society, social history, cultural, Victorian, nineteenth century
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Wallace, Tina and March, Candida.
Changing Perceptions: Writings on Gender and Development
(Oxfam, 1991).
Paperback. Spine creased, a little thumbing to page edges, otherwise good. xi + 324pp. Order No. NSBK-A7048
Keywords: 0855981377, gender, development, developing, countries, country, Third World, women, woman, female, economics, economy, twentieth century, 20th, Turkana, Eritrea, Oxfam, Oxfam Sheanut Loan Scheme, Ghana, Kenya, Africa, African, Dominican Republic, Francisca, India, Indian
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Reilly, Catherine, ed.
Winged Words: Victorian Women's Poetry and Verse
(Enitharmon, 1994).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xix + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C4128
Keywords: 1870612248, Victorian, women, history, literature, poems, poetry, verse, ninetenth century, anthology, writing, literary, Britain, British, England, English, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, poets
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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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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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