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Author: Richard Lansdown Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191044768 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 551
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Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the authoritative and unbowdlerized edition prepared by Leslie Marchand in the 1970s, not only provides the cream of his informal prose; it amounts to a biography in Byron's own words. No other English writer lived so remarkable an existence, from rented rooms in Aberdeen to a Nottinghamshire peerage, from European fame to English infamy, and notorious Italian exile to a glorious death in the Greek War of Independence.The letters and journals are selected, introduced, and annotated to provide a running narrative of the life and career of his remarkable man in his own unmistakable words.
Author: Richard Lansdown Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191044768 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 551
Book Description
Alongside Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality unlike other classic British authors. His life as poet, philanderer, homosexual, and freedom fighter is legendary, and this new selection from his powerful letters and journals tells the story from the inside, in Byron's own racy and passionate style. Though Byron is chiefly known as a poet, his letters and journals are one of the glories of English prose literature, and one of the greatest British acts of autobiography, alongside Pepys' Diary and Boswell's Journal. This new selection, taken from the authoritative and unbowdlerized edition prepared by Leslie Marchand in the 1970s, not only provides the cream of his informal prose; it amounts to a biography in Byron's own words. No other English writer lived so remarkable an existence, from rented rooms in Aberdeen to a Nottinghamshire peerage, from European fame to English infamy, and notorious Italian exile to a glorious death in the Greek War of Independence.The letters and journals are selected, introduced, and annotated to provide a running narrative of the life and career of his remarkable man in his own unmistakable words.
Author: Frances Burney Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141911050 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 945
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Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.
Author: Paula Modersohn-Becker Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 9780810116443 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 612
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Recognized today as one of the great modernist painters, Paula Modersohn-Becker was also a gifted writer, and her large body of letters and journals represent the story of her life. This volume presents the journals and every extant letter, each carefully annotated.
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674089488 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 284
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Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."
Author: Karen Dolby Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 1782439714 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 148
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Using excerpts from her letters and diaries, this book shows the very human face of Queen Victoria, from spirited young princess to caring Queen, passionate bride and loving mother to great-grandmother of a royal dynasty who gave her name to the age of improvement.
Author: William Carey Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 9781573121972 Category : Missionaries Languages : en Pages : 326
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William Carey, an English Baptist pastor, has been called the "Father of the Modern Mission Movement". For the first time, his letters and journals are compiled and made available as a tutor for missionaries today. This book contains the edited version of Carey's complete journal written from 1793-1795, his first years in India, along with excerpts from letters addressing mission strategy, support, struggles, daily life, spirituality, and other important issues missionaries faced. The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey reveals William Carey's unique understanding of the mission task. It allows insight into the character and personality of one of the most famous Christian missionary heroes.
Author: Narcissa Whitman Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781502965400 Category : Languages : en Pages : 74
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Narcissa Whitman was a missionary in Oregon Country (present-day near Walla Walla, Washington), becoming one of the first white women west of the Rockies. However, she is best known for starting the Whitman Mission along the Oregon Trail, and for being massacred along with several others during the Whitman Massacre of 1847.
Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781362613763 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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Author: Richard Lansdown
Author: Richard Lansdown
Author: Frances Burney
Author: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Author: Karen Dolby
Author: William Carey
Author: Narcissa Whitman
Author: Mary Coke
Author: George 1819-1880 Eliot