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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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 helps fill that void and, with Goldblatt’s emphasis on “out of school” literacy, fosters an understanding of literacy as a social practice.
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...
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 .
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
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 ...
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.
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, ...
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings.
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...
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 ...
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.