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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
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The Burney Papers: pt.1. Feb. 1838-Mar. 1849
Author: The Burney Papers: pt.1. Feb. 1838-Mar. 1849
Author: The Burney Papers
Author: Bibliography of Map Projections
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Map projection
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The Notebooks
Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. O-Pf (1905)
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney
Author: Sarah Harriet BurneyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820317465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
This scholarly edition presents for the first time all of the known surviving letters of British novelist Sarah Harriet Burney (1772-1884). The overwhelming majority of these letters--more than ninety percent--have never before been published. Burney's accomplishments, says Lorna J. Clark, have been unjustly overlooked. She published five works of fiction between 1796 and 1839, all of which met with reasonable success, including Traits of Nature (1812), which sold out within three months. These letters position Burney among her fellow women writers and shed light on her relations with her publisher and her ambivalence toward her own work and her readership. Her lively observation of the literary scene evinces the range and scope of her reading, as well as her awareness of literary trends and developments. Burney was, for example, remarkably prescient in recognizing, and praising from the first, the talent of Jane Austen, and met several of the authors of her day. A challenging new perspective on family matters also emerges in the letters. The youngest child of the second marriage of Charles Burney, and the only daughter to remain unmarried, Sarah Harriet had the unenviable task of caring for her father in his later years. Her letters reveal a darker side of Dr. Burney, and also help to round out our image of a more favored daughter, Sarah Harriet's half-sister (and fellow novelist), Frances Burney. As literature, Clark observes, Burney's letters are, arguably, her best work. Thoroughly versed in the epistolary arts, she sought always to amuse and entertain her correspondents. Burney ultimately emerges as a quiet but heroic single woman, relegated to the margins of society where she struggled for independence and self-respect. Displaying literary qualities and a lively sense of humor, the letters provide a fascinating insight into the literary, political, and social life of the day.
Essays and Studies
Author: Algernon Charles SwinburnePublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Terrell Genealogy
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Languages : en
Pages : 315
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Record of the Terrell family of Virginia and North Carolina.
History of Wilkinson County [Georgia]
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Author: Victor DavidsonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806346817
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 661
Book Description
This consolidated reprint of three pamphlets by Mr. David Dobson endeavors to shed light on some 1,000 Irish men and women and their families who emigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825. In the majority of cases, the lists provides us with most of the following particulars: name, date of birth, name of ship, occupation in Ireland, reason for emigration, sometimes place of origin in Ireland, place of disembarkation in the New World, date of arrival, number of persons in the household, and the source of the information. This volume is the first in a three-volume series by Mr. Dobson on early Irish emigration to America.