diaries & memoirs
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Lori Merish, Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Lori Merish’s Archives of Labor: Working Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States is an ambitious work that recovers texts by and about women, labor, and working-class…
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Marie Elena Korey, ed. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour – A Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon
Richard Landon, ed. with an introduction by Marie Elena Korey. A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour – A Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon. New Castle,…
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Sasha Abramsky. The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Sasha Abramsky. The House of Twenty Thousand Books. New York: New York Review of Books, 2014. 359 p. ill. ISBN 9781590178881. US $27.95 This wondrously absorbing, eloquently written, well-researched memoir…
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Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca
Vittore Branca. Merchant Writers: Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Trans. by Murtha Baca. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. x, 407p. ISBN 9781442637146. CAN $75.00 (hardback). Students,…
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Lindsay O’Neill. The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World / Diana G. Barnes. Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664
Lindsay O’Neill. The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii, 264p. ill. ISBN 9780812246483. US $47.50 (hardback). Diana G. Barnes. Epistolary…
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Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939
Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 214 p. ill. ISBN 9781137293053. £50.00 (hardcover). Helen Fairlie’s Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939 sets…
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Kym Brindle. Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters
Kym Brindle. Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Diaries and Letters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. vii, 240p., ill. ISBN 9781137007155. ₤50 (hardback). Epistolary Encounters in Neo-Victorian Fiction explores the ways in…