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 Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together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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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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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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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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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Spongberg, Mary; Caine, Barbara; Curthoys, Ann, eds.
Companion to Women's Historical Writing:
(Palgrave, 2005).
Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good. xvii + 712pp. Order No. NSBK-C15675
Keywords: 9781403915085, women historians, women writers, resources, history
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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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Yonge, Charlotte.
The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade
(Macmillan and Co, 1908).
Hardback. Red boards slightly soiled; corners worn and spine faded; slightly splitting internally at spine, otherwise good. x + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C6066
Keywords: B000HC4R5K, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charlotte M. Yonge, writing for children, children's books, child, women writers, women's history, Victorian, Edwardian, prince, page, literature, literary, story, stories, novels, novelists, fiction, crusade
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Harland, Lady Arethusa.
Memorandums of Various Sorts: Made between 1827 and 1833
(Moore Mackay Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-C13368
Keywords: 0952022109, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, Lady Arethusa Harland
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