Author: John Hobson MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A History of the Parishes of St. Ives, Lelant, Towednack and Zennor
Author: John Hobson MatthewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: The Western Antiquary
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May 1884.
Harvard Historical Studies
Author: All the Lives We Ever Lived
Author: Katharine SmythPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524760633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most. “Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.”—The Wall Street Journal NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TOWN & COUNTRY Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature’s ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived “This searching memoir pays homage to To the Lighthouse, while recounting the author’s fraught relationship with her beloved father, a vibrant figure afflicted with alcoholism and cancer. . . . Smyth’s writing is evocative and incisive.”—The New Yorker “Like H Is for Hawk, Smyth’s book is a memoir that’s not quite a memoir, using Woolf, and her obsession with Woolf, as a springboard to tell the story of her father’s vivid life and sad demise due to alcoholism and cancer. . . . An experiment in twenty-first century introspection that feels rooted in a modernist tradition and bracingly fresh.”—Vogue “Deeply moving – part memoir, part literary criticism, part outpouring of longing and grief… This is a beautiful book about the wildness of mortal life, and the tenuous consolations of art.”—The Times Literary Supplement “Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her love for her father, his profound alcoholism and the unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life.”—Time
A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Memory of the People
Author: Andy WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052189610X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
The Memory of the People is a major study of popular memory in the early modern period.
The Reformation and the Towns in England
Author: Robert TittlerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198207184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.
The Western Antiquary, Or, Devon and Cornwall Notebook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Parliament of 1624
Author: Robert E. RuighPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674652255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
In 1624 James I invited Parliament to discuss issues of war and peace, setting a precedent that would make yet another inroad into the prerogatives of the crown. The "Happy Parliament" turned against the peace-loving King and supported war with Spain. Ruigh presents an absorbing narrative of the proceedings and their far-reaching consequences.