Diaries, letters and journals

The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke was the most influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century, and indeed one of the most significant such exchanges in the history of philosophy.

The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography drawn from the unpublished lifelong correspondence exchanged among four brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson.

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) was the author of ten novels, a play, and a host of innovative educational books for children, as well as several volumes of poetry that helped set priorities and determine the tastes of the culture of early Romanticism.

John Cotton (15841652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation of emigrants from England to New England.

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political.

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This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works.

This volume is the first study of the diary in French writing across the twentieth century, as a genre which includes both fictional and non-fictional works.

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time.

The writing of letters often evokes associations of a single author and a single addressee, who share in the exchange of intimate thoughts across distances of space and time.

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.

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.

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Ceremonies of Bravery is a study of the friendship between the prolific writer Oscar Wilde and Carlos Blacker.

What was it like to be Charles Dickens?

What was it like to be Charles Dickens?

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Masculinity is an expanding area of gender history.

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.

Seneca's Letters to Lucilius are a rich source of information about ancient Stoicism, an influential work for early modern philosophers, and a fascinating philosophical document in their own right.

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'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!

'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem.

'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.

`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.

`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.

'It has been said by its opponents that science divorces itself from literature; but the statement, like so many others, arises from lack of knowledge.

The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) aims in four printed volumes to provide the first critical edition of Cobden's letters, publishing the complete text in as near the original form as possible, accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, together with an introduction to each volume re-assessing Cobden's importance in their light.

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.

This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career.

Seneca's Letters to Lucilius are a rich source of information about ancient Stoicism, an influential work for early modern philosophers, and a fascinating philosophical document in their own right.

Edmund Spenser, Selected Letters and Other Papers provides the first published text of the diplomatic and personal papers written, copied, and handled by Spenser during his years of secretarial service and colonial planting in Ireland, 1580-1589.

'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

'I went & sat with W & walked backwards & forwards in the Orchard till dinner time - he read me his poem.

'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!

The fifth and final volume of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield covers the almost thirteen months during which her attention at first was firmly set on a last chance medical cure, then finally on something very different - if death came to seem inevitable, how should one behave in the time that remained, so one could truly say one lived?

This book represents the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period so far undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and non-political.

These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose novels continue to be bestsellers.

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me equally important intelligence.

'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8 September, in which you are so good as to share with me equally important intelligence.

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive.

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive.

What did it mean - in terms of social, cultural, and literary negotiations - to publish one's own work in Rome at the end of the first century CE?