Writing Home

  • Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson
    By Emma Alderson

    As a minister of the Society of Friends, she traveled throughout Britain and Ireland in 1844.17 Evans, Joseph (b. 1840), George (b. 1838), and William (b. 1834). Sons of Thomas Evans (1791–1852) and Elizabeth Robinson (b.

  • Writing Home
    By Alan Bennett

    Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady ...

  • Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War
    By David Ellis

    1979: 2; qtd. in Pouchet Paquet, “Samuel Dickson Selvon” 439-40). There are two important strands to be drawn out from this statement. First is the way in which Selvon conflates the terms 'Trinidadian' and 'cosmopolitan.

  • Writing Home: Walking, Literature and Belonging in Australia's Red Centre
    By Glenn Morrison

    Gordon, S (ed), The History and Philosophy of Social Science, Taylor & Francis e-Library edition, 2003 (original work ... Graham H, R Mason and A Newman, Literature Review: Historic Environment, Sense of Place, and Social Capital, ...

  • Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920
    By Mary Suzanne Schriber

    Schriber does a fine job of embedding American women's travel writing in the larger tradition of the genre, and her forthright and accessible style will make this book valuable to scholars and students in the field".

  • Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography
    By Eli Goldblatt

    Writing Home helps fill that void and, with Goldblatt’s emphasis on “out of school” literacy, fosters an understanding of literacy as a social practice.

  • Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance
    By Michael D. Wilson

    In Writing Home, Michael Wilson demonstrates that the use of acceptable Western literary forms by indigenous peoples, while sometimes effective, has frequently distorted essential truths about their cultures. Sermons, for...

  • Writing Home: Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008
    By Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

    Beneath a gas-mantle that the moths bombard, Light that powders at a touch, dusty wings, I listen for news through the atmospherics, A crackle of sea-wrack, spinning driftwood, Waves like distant traffic, news from home .

  • Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War
    By David Ellis

    absence of black British literature, it was the American writers Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison who provided the impetus for Phillips to feel he could “express the conundrum of my own experience” and fill this gap with his own writing ...

  • Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns
    By Ruel S. De Vera

    Writing Home: Nineteen Writers Remember Their Hometowns

  • Writing Home: American Women Abroad, 1830-1920
    By Mary Suzanne Schriber

    Examining almost a century's worth of published book-length accounts, ranging from the travel diaries of ordinary women to the narratives of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton, Schriber argues persuasively for the importance of gender ...

  • Writing Home
    By Alan Bennett

    This is a collection of diaries, recollections and book reviews - including several old favourites, such as The Lady in the Ban and various LRB diaries - which work as a whole to create a portrait of the writer.

  • Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier; the Letters of Emma Botham Alderson
    By Emma Alderson

    We have had the pleasure of her company on two occasions & find her very agreeable by the fireside. ... At the two Autumn Quarterly Meetings we attended, one here and the other at Mount Pleasant, both in Ohio yearly meeting, ...

  • Writing Home
    By Alan Bennett

    Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings.

  • Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature
    By Stephen Dodd

    This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense...

  • Writing Home
    By Alan Bennett

    The funny, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best-known literary figures, Writing Home includes Bennett's journalism, book and theater reviews, his diaries from the 1980s, an account of Miss Shepherd--a London ...

  • Writing Home: The Story of Author Thomas Wolfe
    By Laura Boffa

    Beautiful illustrations throughout bring Wolfe's story to life. It is the story of one young man's journey to become a writer, a journey filled with triumph, longing, and a desire to follow one's dream.