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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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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Chandrasekhar, S.
A Dirty, Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Acount of the Bradlaugh-Besant Trial
(University of California Press, 1981).
With the definitive texts of Fruits of Philosophy by Charles Knowlton, The Law of Population by Annie Besant, Theosophy and the Law of Population by Annie Besant. Hardback. Excellent in dustwrapper. xi + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C15468
Keywords: 0520041682, Victorian, history, Annie Besant, Charles Knowlton, Britain, British, England, English, reproduction, sexual, sex, females, feminism, women, woman, physiology, birth control, contraception, population, law, Bradlaugh-Besant trial
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Lichtenstein, Diane.
Writing Their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers
(Indiana UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. x + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-A2808
Keywords: 0253333466, Jewish, ethnicity, Judaism, Jewishness, literature, novel, Emma Lazarus, Rebekah Hyneman, Penina Moise, Emma Wolf, America, United States, USA, 0 253 33346 6
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Cobbett, William.
Cobbett's Country Book: An Anthology of William Cobbett's Writings on Country Matters
(David and Charles, no date).
Edited and with an introduction by Richard Ingrams. Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, slightly dented dustwrapper. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-A6274
Keywords: 0715368001, William Cobbett, Radicals, Tory Radicals, popular Radicals, popular radicalism, Britain, British, British Isles, nineteenth century, history, rural, country, seasons, countryside, gardening, farming, rural sports, farms, social history
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Craig, Peter, ed.
The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing:
(BCA, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 460pp. Order No. NSBK-A11443
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National Lesbian and Gay Survey, .
Proust Cole Porter Michelangelo Marc Almond and Me: Writings by Gay Men on Their Lives and Lifestyles
(Routledge, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. xi + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A15960
Keywords: 9780415089142, gay men, history, literature, masculinity
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Yonge, Charlotte M.
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest:
(Humphrey/Milford, n.d).
Hardback. Cloth sun-faded at edges and spine, otherwise good. 251pp. Order No. NSBK-A11165
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Fawcett, Henry and Millicent Garrett.
The Works of Henry and Millicent Fawcett, 1863-1924:
(Thoemmes Press, 1995 facsimile rpt of the 1878 edition).
Complete in 8 volumes, as follows: Free Trade and Protection; Pauperism; The Economic Position of the British Labourer; Manual of Political Economy; Tales in Political Economy; Political Economy for Beginners; What I Remember; Essays and Lectures. Hardbacks. Near fine. 2363pp. Order No. NSBK-C7544
Keywords: 1855063670, Free Trade and Protection, Pauperism, The Economic Position of the British Labourer, Manual of Political Economy, Tales in Political Economy, Political Economy for Beginners, What I Remember, Essays and Lectures. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Millicent Fawcett, Henry Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Fawcett, The Fawcetts, victorian writers, political thought, complete works, works, poverty, pauper, writing, writings, writings of, works of, Fawcett set, full set, Thoemmes, Thoemmes Press, 20th century, twentieth century, tariffs, 19th century, nineteenth Century, poverty, essays, essay
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Spender, Dale.
Feminist Theories: Three Centuries of Women's Intellectual Traditions
(The Women's Press, 1983).
Paperback. Page edges slightly soiled, back cover creased, otherwise very good. 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C9940
Keywords: 0704338890, three centuries, women, woman, women's history, feminism, feminists, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, women's studies
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