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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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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Pimlott, Ben.
Frustrate their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics
(HarperCollins, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 417pp. Order No. NSBK-A11328
Keywords: 000255495X, Ben Pimlott, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, John Kennedy, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Bill Clinton, Edgar Hoover, Arthur Koestler, Anthony Crosland, Noman Tebbit, Neil Kinnock, politics, political, politicians, government
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Dwyer, Bernard.
But That's Another Story: Collected Writings of Roscommon Man
(Dave Mallinson, 1995).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 97pp. Order No. NSBK-A14246
Keywords: 1899512152, Roscommon Man, Irish, Ireland, story telling, stories, fact, fiction, legends, tales, Bernard Dwyer
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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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Sheridan, Dorothy, ed.
Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology of Women's Writing, 1937 - 1945
(Phoenix Press, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. xiv + 267pp. Order No. NSBK-C5912
Keywords: 1842122134, war, Second World War, World War II, mass-observation, mass observation, people, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, mass observation studies
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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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Hughes-Hallett, Penelope, ed.
Childhood: A Collins Anthology
(Collins, 1988).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to inside front cover, otherwise v good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 450pp. Order No. NSBK-A12203
Keywords: 0002177951, collins, anthology, children, child, childhood, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Thwaite, Ann.
Waiting for the Party: the Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924
(Secker & Warburg, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf, usual lib stamps & stickers, some white speckling to boards, otherwise good in dw. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C757
Keywords: 436521504, Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writing, woman writer, women writers, literature, Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies
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Troubridge, Laura.
Life Amongst the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian 1873-1884
(John Murray, 1966).
Edited by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. Hardback. A little foxing to page edges, otherwise good in soiled, edge-worn dw. 195pp. Order No. NSBK-C6914
Keywords: 0719514282, Laura Troubridge, women writers, woman writer, women's writing, literature, literary, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, journals, Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Troubridge, Runcton, Norfolk, Britain, British, England, English, pastelists, painters, artists, Queen Victoria, history
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