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Author: Julia Ridley Smith Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820360422 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
When Julia Ridley Smith’s parents died, they left behind a virtual museum of furniture, books, art, and artifacts. Between the contents of their home, the stock from their North Carolina antiques shop, and the ephemera of two lives lived, Smith faced a monumental task. What would she do with her parents’ possessions? Smith’s wise and moving memoir in essays, The Sum of Trifles, peels back the layers of meaning surrounding specific objects her parents owned, from an eighteenth-century miniature to her father’s prosthetics. A vintage hi-fi provides a view of her often tense relationship with her father, whose love of jazz kindled her own artistic impulse. A Japanese screen embodies her mother’s principles of good taste and good manners, while an antebellum quilt prompts Smith to grapple with her family’s slaveholding legacy. Along the way, she turns to literature that illuminates how her inheritance shaped her notions of identity and purpose. The Sum of Trifles offers up dark humor and raw feeling, mixed with an erudite streak. It’s a curious, thoughtful look at how we live in and with our material culture and how we face our losses as we decide what to keep and what to let go.
Author: Beulah Kezia Hanson Publisher: Kessinger Publishing ISBN: 9781437033946 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Angela Traubel Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 1608446247 Category : Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
Not just another Jane Austen quote book. TRIFLE BEARINGS gives, for the first time, a comprehensive compilation of thoughts and sayings from ALL the writings of Jane Austen's major and minor works, unfinished narratives, Juvenilia and personal letters. Jane Austen's wit, astuteness and genius as an unsurpassed wordsmith comes alive in this charming volume that cleverly classifies these sayings into nineteen different categories and themes of life touched on by Jane Austen in her writings. The reader is also treated to additional supplements of a chronology of Jane Austen's writings, lists of recommended reading and web sites, and quotes by many famous people from all era's and walks of life on their opinions of Jane Austen and her work. Sure to gratify and charm the newest to the most advanced Jane Austen enthusiast. Angela Traubel is an unabashed Janeite living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. After graduating from the University of Arizona she relished her life of making a peaceful and loving home for her hard-working farmer husband, and three beautiful, now grown, children. The day when her husband brought home a video called SENSE AND SENSIBILITY an additional new love entered her life. She now spends her time seeing her children whenever she can, quilting, gardening, scrapbooking, and learning about and enjoying any and everything she can find on Jane Austen.