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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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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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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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Sage, Lorna.
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English:
(CUP, 1999).
Paperback. New book, fine. viii + 696pp. Order No. NSBK-C7301
Keywords: 0521668131, women writers, woman writer, literature, literary, novels, fiction, feminists, feminism, bibliographies, bibliography, Lorna Sage
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Kanter, Hannah, Lefanu, Sarah et al, eds.
Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1981 - 83
(Women's Press, 1984).
Paperback. Good. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C15768
Keywords: 9780704339309, literature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement, feminism
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Worthen, John.
D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912
(CUP, rpt., 1992).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, some foxing / soiling to page edges - a good working copy. xviii + 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A12540
Keywords: 0521437725, D. H. Lawrence, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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Jones, Kathleen.
A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
(Bloomsbury, 1988).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers and stamps, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C4683
Keywords: 0747500711, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, woman writer, women writers, women and writing, women's history, seventeenth century, feminism, feminist, Mary Lucas, Samel Pepys, John Evelyn
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Darling, Isabella F.
Songs from Silence:
(Alexander Gardner, 2nd edition, 1913).
Hardback. Light scuffing and fading to blue boards, some light foxing to pages not affecting legibility, otherwise a good+ copy. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A10180
Keywords: B0019RL7QO, Isabella Darling, women writers, woman writer, songs, writing, poetry, poems, poets, history, women's history, British, Britain, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, literature, literary, Lanarkshire, stane, singing, singers, music, verses, sickness
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