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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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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MacKnight, Nancy, ed.
Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951-1962
(Michael Joseph, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C5058
Keywords: 0718118235, Vita Sackville-West, Andrew Reiber, women writers, correspondence, letters, twentieth century, woman, women's history, 1950s, 1960s, literary, literature, friendship,
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Cronwright-Schreiner, S. C., ed.
The Letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876 - 1929:
(T. Fisher Unwin, 2nd impression, 1924).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Boards worn with some fraying / loss to cloth at edges, and spine ends - otherwise a good solid working copy. xiii + 410pp. Order No. NSBK-C13859
Keywords: B0017X528E, Olive Schreiner, letters, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, South Africa, South African, Havelock Ellis, Boer War, South African War, Emily Hobhouse, Edward Carpenter, Cape Town
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Gyford, C. Barrington.
The Skipper Ashore: Being Some More Letters from the Skipper of a Tramp Steamer, about his Experiences Ashore in Various Parts of the World. With Photographs Sent by the Writer
(Isaac Pitman, 1938).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, boards worn especially at edges, some soiling to page edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A14089
Keywords: B0014IF138, maritime, travel, ships, boats, skippers, history, C. Barrington Gyford, letters, correspondence, Europe, East, Arabia, Middle East, Sudan, steamers, photographs, sea travel, adventure, seas, inter-war, inter war
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Markus, Julia.
Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
(Bloomsbury, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-C7304
Keywords: 0747522960, women writers, woman's history, woman, poets, poetry, poems, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Robert Browning, marriage, marital, elopement, Italy, Italian, eloping, courtship, Victorian, nineteenth century, letters, correspondence, literature, literary, romance, Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, William Story, Harriet Hosmer, Charlotte Cushman, George Sand, morphine, spiritualism, depression
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Flanagan, Laurence, ed.
Irish Women's Letters:
(Sutton, 1997).
Foreword by Edna O'Brien. Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xv + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C12405
Keywords: 075091257X, Ireland, Irish, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, letters, epistles, correspondence, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth, eighteenth, 20th, 18th
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