Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel.
Readers as well as listeners can now embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining and informing fans since 2013.
After the battle of Antietam in 1862, Harriet Eaton traveled to Virginia from her home in Portland, Maine, to care for soldiers in the Army of the Potomac.
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Evidence-based interventions are increasingly being required by third-party payers and an evidence-based orientation has come to define ethical practice.
The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale.
An honest and poignant look into the deeply intimate yet platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protgeeach seeking connection and acceptanceas reflected by the decade of letters they exchanged.
Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the South Atlantic is well known.
Von Freundschaft, Literatur und der Bedeutung des Radios in den 1970er Jahren: Über sechzig bisher unveröffentlichte Briefe von Hubet Fichte und Peter Michel Ladiges.
Im Zentrum dieser Edition stehen die Briefe, die Gertrud Kolmar von September 1938 bis zu ihrer Deportation im März 1943 nach Auschwitz an ihre in die Schweiz emigrierte Schwester Hilde Wenzel schrieb.
Der Breslauer Jude Willy Cohn musste nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten erleben, wie die deutschen Juden in immer größerem Umfang entrechtet, ausgegrenzt und existenziell bedroht werden.
Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937 is an edited selection, published here for the first time, of the diaries kept by American poet and novelist Coleman during her years as an expatriate in the modernist hubs of France and England.
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Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, during the first quarter of the 20th century, Alabama-born organist and composer Lee Orville Erwin, like many of the 20th century's great American composers, spent time studying in Paris.
Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence delves into the profound yet contrasting relationship between two towering figures in 20th-century American poetry.
Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century.
The first standard edition of the writings of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835), this volume marks a revival of interest in, and a new critical appreciation of, one of the most important literary figures of the early nineteenth century.
**MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year**The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friendA towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm 'Mal' Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles' inner circle.
Der Philologe Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) und der Archäologe, Journalist und Pädagoge Karl August Böttiger (1760–1835) schrieben einander von 1788 bis 1812 etwa 300 Briefe.
Ovids Sammlung von 14 Briefen mythischer Frauen und der Dichterin Sappho sowie von drei Briefpaaren, in denen jeweils eine mythische Frau auf das Schreiben des um sie werbenden bzw.
This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous.
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work.
'Warm, revelatory and moving' The New Statesman's Books of the Year, 2024At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing.
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes.
An unforgettable chronicle of an era by one of America’s wildest—and most brilliant—comedic and literary minds Edited by Nile Southern and Josh Alan FriedmanStarting with his landing at the Battle of the Bulge, Terry Southern showed a knack for winding up in the world’s most interesting places.
Using countless interviews as well as original diaries and letters, Andrew Wiest lays bare the horror of the Vietnam War for those left behind and the enduring battles they must continue to fight long after their loved ones have returned home.
Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as ';Michael Field'and who were partners and lovers for decadesis one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (18461914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (18621913).