In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland.
As he traveled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1666-1746) recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, discovered by Roberto Zaugg and Craig Koslofsky in a Berlin archive.
The friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank was one of the most emotionally intense, racially complicated, and aesthetically significant relationships in the history of American literary modernism.
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.
A repackaged edition of the revered authors collection of personal lettersa curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fansand a short biography by his brother Warren Lewis.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'An eloquent elegy on the past of a county she loved so much' THE TIMES'This classic evocation of du Maurier's beloved home ranks as a work of art .
Examines Samuel Richardson''s letters and novels, and explores the interconnection between fiction and correspondence in eighteenth-century literature.
This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
A comprehensive account of the author's entire career through the lens of her recently published diariesWith the publication of Susan Sontag's diaries, the development of her career can now be evaluated in a more genetic sense, so that the origins of her ideas and plans for publication are made plain in the context of her role as a public intellectual, who is increasingly aware of her impact on her culture.
Again Carleton University's important lecture series has produced a stimulating volume in which leading figures in the history of Canadian letters and public affairs are seen in the light of today by a group of distinguished scholars and writers.
Der als Begründer des Pietismus im Luthertum bekannte Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705) verwandte im Laufe seines Lebens immer mehr Zeit darauf, eine ausgebreitete Korrespondenz zu pflegen.
Der vorliegende Briefwechsel zwischen dem Literaturwissenschaftler Rüdiger Scholz und dem Schriftsteller Erasmus Schöfer, entstanden zwischen 2004 und 2021, gibt Einblicke in das Denken der Verfasser, in die Ansichten, Standpunkte und Meinungen, in das Leiden am Zustand der Gesellschaft und in die Versuche der Gegenwehr.
Bushmen, Botany and Baking Bread: Mary Pocock's record of a journey with Dorothea Bleek across Angola in 1925 presents the record of a remarkable overland journey documented by the botanist Mary Agard Pocock and illustrated, in colour, with her photographs, sketches and paintings of southern Angola, its people and its plants.
