Author: Richard RushPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Recollections of a Residence at the English and French Courts
Author: Richard RushAutobiographical Sketches and Recollections, During a Thirty-five Years' Residence in New Orleans
Author: Theodore ClappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Autobiographical sketches and recollections, during a 35 years residence in New Orleans
Author: Theodore ClappRecollections of My Nonexistence
Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher:
ISBN: 0593083334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.
Recollections of a Three Years' Residence in China
Author: William Tyrone PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
"New Zealand, p. 338-380, summarising impressions of the country, its natural history, and the MÄoris, with a few minor stories not included in Sketches in New Zealand, such as one on alcoholic kakas"--Bagnall.
Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi
Author: FlintRecollections of a Busy Life
Author: Sir William Bower ForwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A Book of Recollections
Author: John Cordy JeaffresonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, from Pittsburg and the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Florida to the Spanish Frontier
Author: Timothy FlintPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, a residence in Hong Kong, and visits to other islands in the Chinese seas. With plates
Author: Sir Arthur Augustus Thurlow CUNYNGHAMEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description